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An overview of the Chinese UCG program | 2007-08-11 | Coal; China; Underground Coal Gasification; UCG; Two-stage gasification; Chinese UCG program; Energy | Coal is the dominant source of energy in China, but about 50% of the coal resource is left underground unmined. Because of this, the "long-tunnel, large section, two-stage" Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology has been put forward, and the UCG model platform has been built. Simulation test... |
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Oil impregnated carbonate rocks of the Timpoweap Member Moenkopi Formation, Hurricane Cliffs area, Utah and Arizona | 1979 | Oil impregnated rocks; Hurricane Cliffs; Utah; Arizona; Timpoweap Member; Triassic Moenkopi Formation; Timpoweap Canyon; Hurricane, Utah | Oil impregnated rocks crop out at several localities near the Hurricane Cliffs in southwestern Utah and adjacent Arizona. The most significant petroliferous deposits occur in the Timpoweap Member of the Triassic Moenkopi Formation in Timpoweap Canyon and the Hurricane Cliffs south of Hurricane, Utah... |
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Oil and gas evolution kinetics for oil shale and petroleum source rocks determined from pyrolysis-TQMS data at multiple heating rates | 1991-11 | Evolution kinetics; Oil shale; Petroleum source rocks; Pyrolysis-TQMS data; Programmed-temperature pyrolysis; Triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry; Hydrous pyrolysis | Seven oil shales and petroleum source rocks were subjected to programmed-temperature pyrolysis at heating rates of 1 and 10 °C/min using triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry to monitor volatile compound evolution. Kinetic parameters were determined for evolution of hydrocarbons and various heteroato... |
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Oil and gas evolution kinetics for oil shale and petroleum source rocks determined from pyrolysis-TQMS data at two heating rates | 1992-04 | Volatile compound evolution; Oil shales; Petroleum source rocks; Programmed-temperature pyrolysis; Triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry; Hydrous pyrolysis | Seven oil shales and petroleum source rocks were subjected to programmedtemperature pyrolysis at heating rates of 1 and 10 °C/min using triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry to monitor volatile compound evolution. Kinetic parameters were determined for evolution of hydrocarbons and various heteroatom... |
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Detailed kinetic analysis of oil shale pyrolysis TGA data | 2011-03-22 | kinetic analysis; oil shale pyrolysis; TGA data; AIChE; oil shale resourses; western United States; Green River oil shale | There are significant resources of oil shale in the western United States, which if exploited in an environmentally responsible manner would provide secure access to transportation fuels. Understanding the kinetics of kerogen decomposition to oil is critical to designing a viable process. A dataset ... |
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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... |
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Experimental and modeling study of particulate formation in high-pressure diesel-like conditions | 2000 | particulate formation; high-pressure diesel-like conditions; diesel combustion process; tailpipe particulate emissions | The diesel combustion process has been characterized by combined measurements of flame intensity and extinction in the UV-visible range in an optically accessible divided-chamber diesel engine at different air/fuel ratios and constant engine speed, using n-heptane and commercial diesel oil as fuels.... |
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Mechanism and kinetics of lead capture by kaolinite in a downflow combustor | 2000 | mechanism and kinetics; lead capture; kaolinite; downflow combustor; postflame reaction; lead vapor | An 18 kW, 6 m long, gas-fired downflow combustor was used to examine the postflame reaction between lead vapor and kaolinite. Since the focus of this work was to evaluate the reaction with lead vapor, samples were extracted at a temperature above the metal dew point. The sample was rapidly diluted w... |
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In-furnace capture of cadmium and other semi-volatile metals by sorbents | 2005 | in-furnace capture; cadmium capture; semi-volatile metals; sorbents; sorbent utilization | An 18 kW, cylindrical (inside diameter = 15-cm), 6-m high, laminar, downflow furnace was used to investigate the mechanisms governing reactive scavenging of cadmium vapors from combustion environments, by hydrated lime and kaolinite powder sorbents. Two major physical mechanisms dominate the reactio... |
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Getting from here to there: Devising an optimal regulatory model for CO2 transport in a new carbon capture and sequestration industry | 2010 | regulatory model for CO2 transport; new carbon capture and sequestration; CCS; regulatory model | If CCS is to become a broad-scale commercial industry in time to meet the need for climate change mitigation, the United States must adopt a regulatory model that will allow for efficient construction of critical infrastructure. A well-crafted regulatory framework gives private would-be CCS operator... |
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U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration field experiment | 1976-06 | U. S. energy research and development; field experiment; reverse combustion process; oil recovery; tar sand; alternative forward process | The Laramie Energy Research Center of the U. S. Gov Research and Development Administration is equiping a small-scale field experiment to test the reverse combustion process to recover oil from tar sand. This field experiment, the first of a planned series, will extend the results of laboratory work... |
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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... |
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State and regional control of geological carbon sequestration (Part I) | 2011-05 | state and regional control; geological carbon sequestration; hydrocarbon fuel; carbon capture; geologic sequestration | 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 ... |
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Water for commercial oil shale development in Utah: Allocating scarce resources and the search for new sources of supply | 2010 | commercial oil shale development; allocating resources; oil shale; bitumen | BACKGROUND A. What Is Oil Shale and Why Do We Care? Oil shale is a sedimentary rock containing solid bituminous materials. When oil shale is heated, petroleum-like liquids and gasses are released. The process of heating shale and capturing resulting liquids and gasses is called retorting and can occ... |
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Field guide to lacustrine and related nonmarine depositional environments in tertiary rocks, Uinta Basin, Utah | 1976-11 | lacustrine environments; nonmarine depositional environments; tertiary rocks | The lower part of the Tertiary System in the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado (fig. 1) reflects a series of very complex and variable forms of continental sedimentation in a basin of internal drainage. These complex forms represent the disruption of the Cretaceous depositio... |
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Technology: Chevron, GNC project described | 1983-03 | GNC project; Energy Corporation's Sunny side Tar Sands Project | The Chevron and GNC Energy Corporation's Sunny side Tar Sands Project will produce 34,675 barrels per operating day of 35°API gravity synthetic crude oil from 37 million tons per year of tar sands ore with an average bitumen content of 8.2 weight percent. The project was described on page 3-1 of th... |
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Tar sand extraction method due tests | 1986-04-28 | tar sand extraction method; due tests; bitumen recovery; Athabasca sands; Solv-Ex process | Shell Canada aims to recover as much as 96% of bitumen from Athabasca sands with Solv-Ex process in pilot tests at Albuquerque. Results could lead to 1987 decision to proceed with a 7,500 bled mining/extraction project at Alberta site. |
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On solar thermal processing and retorting of oil shale | 1988-05 | The general concept and a recent paper on solar oil shale retorting are critically reviewed. It is concluded that a recent paper by Berber and Fletcher (Energy 13. 13, 1988) contains erroneously high oil yields and provides no new valid information related to solar oil shale process design or econom... | |
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Investigation of coal char-slag transition during oxidation: Effect of temperature and residual carbon | 2009 | coal char; molten slag; bitumous coal; energy and fuels | The transition of coal char to molten slag at high conversion was studied for a bituminous coal using a laminar entrained-flow reactor under oxidizing conditions. Post-oxidized char particles were analyzed by various techniques including loss-on-ignition, gas adsorption analysis and scanning electro... |
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Mineral matter distribution during the hot water processing of Utah tar sand | 1991 | mineral matter distribution; hot water processing; Utah tar sand; tar sand; mineralogical analyses; Whiterocks deposit; bitumen separation | Mineralogical analyses of a U.S. tar sand sample from the Whiterocks deposit in the Uinta Basin, Utah, were performed by FTIR, XRD and XRF. The tar sand sample was subjected to the modified hot water process for the bitumen separation and the attendant distribution of constituent minerals into the b... |
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Parallelization of the P-1 radiation model | 2006 | parallelization; P-1 radiation model; radiative transport equation; LES; large-eddy simulations; RTE | The P-1 radiation model is spatially decomposed to solve the radiative transport equation on parallel computers. Mathematical libraries developed by third parties are employed to solve the linear systems that result during the solution procedure. Multigrid preconditioning accelerated the convergence... |
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Biofuels--snake oil for the twenty-first century | 2008-12-01 | Most Americans are painfully aware that our present consumption of petroleum is unsustainable. The United States has less than 5% of the world's population, but consumes 24.4% of the world's petroleum production. Only 8.5% of the world's petroleum production comes from American wells, which necessit... | |
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Importance of bitumen viscosity in the hot water processing of domestic tar sands | 1983 | bitumen viscosity; hot water processing; domestic tar sands; bitumen recovery | The separation efficiency of the hot water digestionflotation technique used for bitumen recovery from various domestic tar sands was evaluated. Bitumen viscosity was found to be the most important tar sand property in determining the success of the bitumen separation. Bitumen viscosity of the tar s... |
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Virtual Radiometers for Parallel Architectures | 2012 | parallel architectures; virtual radiometers; a parallel ray tracing scheme; ray tracing algorithms; radiation; ray tracing; monte carlo; combustion; radiometer; parallel | Background: Parallelization of traditional ray tracing algorithms for radiation applications in participating media suffers from the large amount of inter-processor communication required to hand off rays between processors. As a result, strong scaling of these algorithms falls short of the required... |
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Nitric oxide destruction during coal and char oxidation under pulverized-coal combustion conditions | 2004 | nitric oxide destruction; coal and char oxidation; pulverized-coal combustion; particle distribution; conversion efficiency | A modified drop-tube reactor that allows particle distribution over the reactor cross-sectional area, and oxidation of chars produced in situ, was used to study the conversion efficiency of char nitrogen to nitric oxide (aNO). The results confirm previous findings by other investigators that aNO dec... |