Contact

E-Mail: ralf.littke@emr.rwth-aachen.de
Fon: +49 241 80 95748
Homepage: http://www.emr.rwth-aachen.de/aw/EMR/Energy_Mineral_Resources/Zielgruppen/lek/Mitarbeiter/mitglieder/Mitarbeiter/~wbp/ralf-littke/?lang=de

Research topics

• Petroleum and Environmental Organic Geochemistry
• Coal Geology and Geochemistry
• Petrophysics of Low Permeability Rocks
• Sedimentary Basin Dynamics and Modelling
• Organic Petrology

Resources and technologies

• GC-MS
• Microscopy Lab (Incident Light, IR)
• Fluid Flow Experiments (Triaxial Cells)
• Pyrolysis Experiments (Rock Eval, MSSV)
• Petroleum System Modelling

Publications

• Li, X., Krooss, B. M., Weniger, P., Littke, R. (2015): Liberation of molecular hydrogen (H2) and methane (CH4) during non-isothermal pyrolysis of shales and coals: Systematics and quantification International Journal of Coal Geology, 137, 152-164
• Al Sandouk-Lincke, N. A., Schwarzbauer, J., Antic, V., Antic, M., Caase, J., Grünelt, S., Reßing, K., Littke, R. (2015): Off-line-pyrolysis–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analyses of drilling fluids and drill cuttings – Identification of potential environmental marker substances Organic Geochemistry, 88, 17-28
• Bruns, B., Littke, R. (2015): Lithological dependency and anisotropy of vitrinite reflectance in high rank sedimentary rocks of the Ibbenbüren area, NW-Germany: Implications for the tectonic and thermal evolution of the Lower Saxony Basin International Journal of Coal Geology, 137, 124–135
• Baur, F., Littke, R., Wielens, H., di Primio, R. (2012): Prediction of reservoir fluid composition using Basin and Petroleum System Modeling: A study from the Jeanne d’ Arc Basins, Eastern Canada.- AAPG Hedberg Series, no. 4, 259-292
  
• full publication list: http://www.emr.rwth-aachen.de/aw/EMR/Energy_Mineral_Resources/Zielgruppen/lek/Mitarbeiter/mitglieder/Mitarbeiter/~wbp/ralf-littke/?lang=de#a3