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Colorful Gilson did more than promote gilsonite | 1996-03 | The following article from The Times-Independent in Moab pays tribute to the man for whom Gilsonite is named. Utah's American Gilsonite Company traces its roots to Sam Gilson. | |
| 377 |
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Combination solvent-noncondensible gas injection method for recovering petroleum from viscous petroleum-containing formations including tar sand deposits | 1978-08-29 | Patent; Petroleum; Tar sand deposits; Petroleum recovery; Viscous petroleum-containing formations; Gas injection; Unreactive; Combination solvent-noncondensible gas injection method; Bitumen | Petroleum may be recovered from viscous petroleum-containing formations including tar sand deposits by injecting into the formation a solvent which is liquid at formation conditions and simultaneously therewith injecting a substance which will remain totally gaseous at the pressure and temperature c... |
| 378 |
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Combined surface and in situ tar sand bitumen production | 1985-02-19 | Patent; Combined surface and in situ tar sand bitumen product; In-situ combustion; Tar sand; Unminable tar sand formation; Hydrogen sulfide; H2S; Minable tar; Forward in-situ combustion; Reverse in-situ combustion | In-situ combustion of tar sand formations is improved by introducing into an unminable tar sand formation prior to initiation of in-situ combustion hydrogen sulfide produced from upgrading tar sands from a minable tar sand formation in an area proximate the area of the unminable formation. The strea... |
| 379 |
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Combustion emissions and thermal performance impacts when replacing hydrocarbon fuels with hydrogen in industrial furnaces | Many industrial processes rely on heating that is currently achieved through combustion of fossil fuels. The industrial sector generates approximately 23 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in the US. As infrastructure associated with production and distribution of hydrogen continues to expand, ... | ||
| 380 |
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Combustion of municipal solid wastes with oil shale in a circulating fluidized bed | 1996-06-30 | The authors of this report have invented an integrated process for the treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW). In this process, after recycling steps to save usable materials such as aluminum, other metals, and glass have been completed, the resulting refusederived fuel (RDF) is co-combusted with ... | |
| 381 |
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The coming boom in Utah's school age and college age populations: state and county scenarios | 2002-09 | Population analysts have for some time anticipated a significant increase in the school age population (5 through 17 years of age) of Utah beginning around 2004 and extending for at least a decade. At this point the question is not whether the boom will materialize, but rather, the exact timing, mag... | |
| 382 |
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Commercial oil shale leasing under the energy policy act: An analysis of when, where, and how | 2008-03-12 | Oil shale; Oil sands; PEIS; EPA; BLM; FLPMA; RD&D; Research, Demonstration, & Development; Tar sands; Utah; Colorado; Wyoming | Discussion of the alternatives for oil shale development outlined in the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement issued by the Bureau of Land Management. |
| 383 |
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Common conditions for heavy oils | 1987 | Heavy oils; Colloidal admixtures; Hydrocarbons; Asphaltenes; Trace metals; Organic residues; Alberta basin; Eastern Venezuela basin; Athabasca; Orinoco; Heavy-oil depositys; Common conditions for heavy oils | Field evidence suggests that conditions for the collection and retention of various hydrocarbons exert control over the composition of resident hydrocarbon mixtures. Heavy-oil deposits demonstrate that control very clearly. Heavy oils are essentially colloidal admixtures of hydrocarbons, usually acc... |
| 384 |
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Communication and selection notes | 2012 | Staff applications, Scholarships | Notes on Staff Council, Staff Scholarships, and Staff Council call for applications. |
| 385 |
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Comparative study of organic rich solids present in Utah and Athabasca oil sands | 1989 | organic rich solids; Utah oil sands; Athabasca oil sands; comparative study of oil sands | The presence of humic matter modifies the hydrophilic character of some oil sand solids surfaces and thereby results in serious problems in bitumen recovery using water-based processes. In the present work the fraction enriched with humic matter was separated from the bulk of Utah oil sand solids, u... |
| 386 |
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Comparing 10 methods for solution verification and linking to model validation | 2005-03-25 | Grid convergence; V&V process; Solution Verification; Discretized continuum; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Computational analyses; Discretization; Continuum process; Finite elemental analyses | Grid convergence is often assumed as a given during computational analyses involving discretization of an assumed continuum process. In practical use of finite difference and finite element analyses, perfect grid convergence is rarely achieved or assured, and this fact must be addressed to make stat... |
| 387 |
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Comparison of kinetic analysis of source rocks and kerogen concentrates | 1994-05-10 | Shales and kerogen concentrates from the Green River, Rundel, Ohio, Kimmeridge, and Phosphoria formations were examined by Pyromat II micropyrolysis and kinetic parameters were determined by the shift-in-Tm a x , discrete distribution, modified Friedman, and modified Coats-Redfern methods. Overall, ... | |
| 388 |
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Comparison of laboratory and field steamfloods in tar sand | In situ recovery technologies for tar sand and heavy oil are simulated at the Western Research Institute to prepare for pilot tests and commercial operations. Wide ranges of process parameters are tested in one-dimensional reactor tubes in which the tar sand or heavy oil is uniformly reconstituted t... | ||
| 389 |
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Comparison of methods for measuring kerogen pyrolysis rates and fitting kinetic parameters | 1987-03-23 | We determine rates of product evolution during pyrolysis of several petroleum source rocks and isolated kerogens by nonisothermal techniques, including Rock Eval pyrolysis and pyrolysis-MS/MS. The resulting data are analyzed by nonlinear regression and simpler correlation techniques in terms of disc... | |
| 390 |
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Completion for tar sand substrate | Patent; Hydrocarbons; Subterranean formation; Well; Liner; Bitumen; Bitumen emulsion; Hydrocarbon recovery; Tar sand; Tar sand substrate | Method and apparatus for recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation in which a well completion, including a well liner, lies in a generally horizontal disposition within the hydrocarbon productive substrate. The liner encloses conductor means for delivering a stream of a hot stimulating a... | |
| 391 |
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Composition and origin of the Uinta Basin bitumens | 1963-01 | The names of the three formations of interest, from oldest to youngest, the Wasatch, Green River, and Uinta, have been used largely as facies terms to differentiate sediments which were believed to be of different age but actually were deposited simultaneously. The Wasatch is predominantly fluviatil... | |
| 392 |
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Compositional and kinetic analysis of oil shale pyrolysis using TGA-MS | 2012-04 | compositional analysis; kinetic analysis; oil shale pyrolysis; TGA-MS; oil shale; western United States; oil production | There are vast resources of oil shale in the western United States. Development of technically and economically effective technologies for the conversion of oil shale to liquid fuels will help provide a long-term and secure source of transportation fuels. Developing good understanding of the decompo... |
| 393 |
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Computational study of the anode baking industrial furnace | Turbulent flow; Eddy dissipation model; Combustion, NOx; Zeldovich mechanism | In the aluminium industry, the Hall-Héroult process is used for smelting of aluminium using carbon electrodes such as anodes. The baking process of anodes is required for their maximum efficiency during this electrolysis process. The anode baking process contributes up to 15% costs in the aluminium... | |
| 394 |
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Concentration of eastern oil shales by froth flotation | 1983 | Concentration of Eastern oil shale has been accomplished by size reduction and froth flotation techniques. The efficiency of kerogen recovery depends on the extent of size reduction (1iberation) as well as frother and promoter additions. Certain grinding aids sucli as sodium silicate and fuel oil ha... | |
| 395 |
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Conference theme - October 1980 International Symposium Industrial Process Combustion Technology | 1980 | ||
| 396 |
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Conjunctive surface and groundwater management in Utah: Implications for oil shale and oil sands development | 2011-12-31 | Unconventional fuel development; Conjunctive water use; Surface water; Groundwater; Utah; Utah water law; Oil shale; Oil sands | Unconventional fuel development will require scarce water resources. In an environment characterized by scarcity, and where most water resources are fully allocated, prospective development will require minimizing water use and seeking to use water resources in the most efficient manner. Conjunctive... |
| 397 |
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Constraints on the commercialization of oil shale | 1978 | oil shale; commercialization of oil shale; constraints of commercialization; economic problems; institutional problems; surface oil shale technologies | Beyond supporting reseearch, development, and demonstration projects, government energy policy is directed toward introducing new energy technologies into commercial use. Considerable policy attention has been focused on the commercialization of energy process plants that produce substitutes for imp... |
| 398 |
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Constructing a basin-scale geologic model | 2013-05-07 | Unconventional fuels; Green River Formation; Uinta Basin; Geologic model; Workflow; Reservoir; Basin-scale model | Presentation given at the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7, 2013. |
| 399 |
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Contemporary projections of Utah's population portend relatively small increases in higher education enrollments | |||
| 400 |
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Control of geological carbon sequestration in the western United States | 2011-05 | coal; carbon dioxide; electric utilities; carbon sequestration; sequestration; geological sequestration; climate change | In the near future, the use of coal may be legally restricted due to concerns over the effects of its combustion on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Carbon capture and geologic sequestration offer one method to reduce carbon emissions from coal and other hydrocarbon fuel. While the federal... |