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1 GEOMECHANICAL AND FLUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIESGEOMECHANICAL AND FLUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIES Topical Report
2 Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources Quarterly Progress ReportQuarterly report, CASE quarterly reportClean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources Quarterly Progress Report for Project Period: April 2015 to June 2015
3 Clean and Secure Energy From Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources Quarterly Progress Report, April 2016 to June 2015- Final ReportClean and Secure Energy From Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources Quarterly Progress Report, April 2016 to June 2015-Final Report
4 Virtual Radiometers for Parallel Architectures2012parallel architectures; virtual radiometers; a parallel ray tracing scheme; ray tracing algorithms; radiation; ray tracing; monte carlo; combustion; radiometer; parallelBackground: 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...
5 On-line, mass spectrometric determination of ammonia from oil shale pyrolysis using isobutane chemical ionization1988-03Ammonia is the predominant nitrogen-containing species formed during the pyrolysis of oil shale. An on-line method of determining ammonia was developed to study kinetics and chemistry of formation and evolution. While fragmentation of water interferes with electron ionization mass spectrometry, chem...
6 On solar thermal processing and retorting of oil shale1988-05The 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...
7 Oil shale retorting in dense phase hot-solid recycle systems1988-06Oil shale processing remains primitive despite more that a century of study and development. To expand the industry in China, and to develop an industry in the U.S.A., more efficient, environmentally acceptable oil shale retorting schemes are required. Rapid pyrolysis, solid-recycle retorts offer hi...
8 Oil shale retorting processes: A technical overview1984-03The challenge facing the oil shale industry is to devise a simple and efficient retorting process that operates at low cost. This will require a thorough understanding of the important physical and chemical processes that occur during retorting, mathematical modeling to analyze the complex interacti...
9 Oil vapor coking kinetics over oxidized Colorado oil shale1991-10-22A model for coking of shale oil vapors over porous oxidized recycle shale has been derived. This model includes mass transfer of the oil vapor through the gas film surrounding the shale particles with countercurrent flow of cracked low-molecular weight products, diffusion through the pore system, ad...
10 Atomistic modeling of oil shale kerogens and asphaltene along with their interactions with the inorganic mineral matrix2011-04atomistic modeling; oil shale kerogens and asphaltene; inorganic mineral matrixThe goal of this project is to obtain and validate three dimensional atomistic models for the organic matter in both oil shales and oil sands. In the case of oil shales the modeling was completed for kerogen, the insoluble portion of the organic matter; for oil sands it was for asphaltenes, a class ...
11 Use of a submersible viscometer in the primary separation step of the hot water process for recovery of bitumen from tar sand1987-01-20
12 Underground coal thermal treatment - Task 6 topical report, Utah Clean Coal Program - Reporting Period: October 2009 - September 20112012-01-11SNG; substitute natural gas; coal pyrolysis; in-situ; underground coal thermal treatment; UCTT; Geochemists Workbench; GWBThe long-term objective of this work is to develop a transformational energy production technology by in-situ thermal treatment of a coal seam for the production of substitute natural gas (SNG) while leaving much of the coal's carbon in the ground. This process converts coal to a high-efficiency, lo...
13 Uinta Basin tar sand deposits1990Uinta Basin; Tar sand deposits; UtahThis report addresses an important need to the State of Utah; to define, tabulate, and document an economic resource which has aroused the interest of industry and academia and which is vastly undeveloped and little understood as to its potential. The need for this report has grown since the last ta...
14 U.S. tar sand oil forecasts (1985-1995)1979-11Domestic tar sands; Oil production forecast; United States; 1985-1995This Technical Report forecasts production of oil from domestic tar sands through 1995 under low, medium and high world oil price scenarios. It also includes background information such as the extent, nature, and location of tar sands in the United States, as well as the status of technology and a f...
15 Oil shale heat-capacity relations and heats of pyrolysis and dehydration1987-05-06Green River shale; Enthalpy changes; Kerogen pyrolysis; Bound-water dehydration; Devonian shalesNew relations are developed for calculating enthalpy changes during heating, retorting, or cooling of raw, spent, or burned oil shales of various compositions. The relations describe the sensible heats of the minerals, kerogen, and char, and the reaction heats of kerogen pyrolysis and bound-water de...
16 Overburden map and thickness determinations, Sunnyside oil-impregnated sandstone deposit, Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah1986Oil-impregnated sandstone; Sunnyside deposits; Carbon County; Duchesne County; UtahThis investigation into the overburden and oil-impregnated sandstone thicknesses within the Sunnyside deposits, Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah is done under Contract No. YA-553-CT0-1059 between the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
17 Organic and pyritic sulfur determination in oil shale1983-03-01H2S; Pyritic sulfur; Oil shale; Kentucky; Ohio; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Oil shale deposits; SulfurSulfur forms in oil shale are defined according to their reduction rates to H2S in the presence of hydrogen-donor solvents. A linear increase in temperature with time is applied to a reaction system of oil shale and hydrogen-donor solvents. The different temperatures at which H2S is detected corresp...
18 Oil-impregnated sandstone mapping project Nine Mile Canyon area Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah: A field examination for the Utah Geological Survey1971-10-04Tributaries; Nine Mile canyon; Argyle canyon; Uinta Basin; Deltaic facies; Green River Formation; Parachute CreekA reconnaissance survey of tributaries to Nine Mile and Argyle canyons in the southern Uinta Basin showed widespread but erratic distribution of oil-impregnated sandstones. The occurrences are mainly in the Deltaic facies of the Green River formation. The bituminous material is believed to have been...
19 Oil shale project run summary, small retort: Run S-241981-10-07Oil shale; MIS; Modified in-situ oil shale retorting; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryA. Objective. Previous Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory pilot retort experiments, simulating modified in-situ (MIS) oil shale retorting, have employed relatively high (1-3 m/day) retorting rates. Such rates not only would have an obvious commercial economic advantage but, in pilot retort trial...
20 Oil-impregnated sandstones in Utah and Wayne Counties, Utah1972Thistle; Utah County; Jurassic sandstone; Thousand Lake Mountain; Wayne County; Oil-impregnated sediments; Asphalt-bearing Tertiary bedsTwo little known occurrences of oil-impregnated sediments are discussed briefly. One is a fairly extensive area of asphalt-bearing Tertiary beds in the vicinity of Thistle, Utah County. The other is a very limited exposure of Jurassic sandstone permeated with dead oil on Thousand Lake Mountain in Wa...
21 Oil shale quarterly report1990-09-05Aboveground oil shale retorting; Hot-Recycled-Solid; HRS; Pyrolysis; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryWe are studying aboveground oil shale retorting and have developed the LLNL Hot-Recycled-Solid (HRS) process as a generic, second-generation, rapid pyrolysis retorting system in which recycled shale is the solid heat carrier. In 1984-87, we operated a 1-tonne-per-day FIRS pilot plant to study retort...
22 Oil-impregnated sandstones of Raven Ridge, Vernal, Utah1972Oil-impregnated sandstone; Raven Ridge; Vernal, Utah; Uinta Basin; Utah; Colorado; Wasatch Formation; Green River Formation; Uinta FormationThe area of this report is in the northeastern part of the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. The area covers approximately 52 square miles of what is regionally called Raven Ridge. Raven Ridge, a series of hogback ridges, trends northwest-southeast, and includes three Eocen...
23 Oil shale project small retort run summary: Run S-15 addendum computer tables1981-03Run summary; Oil shale project small retort; Lawrence Livermore LaboratoryThe Run Summary for S-15 was published quite some time ago (UCID 18282-Sept. 1979). At that time we had not completely analyzed the data using the computer as we had done in other run summaries. We have now gone back and processed that data. This report presents the computer generated run summary da...
24 Oil shale project run summary, large retort: Run L-11981-11-23Oil yield loss; Combustion retorting; Oil shale; Rubble bed; Run L-1; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryThe overall goals were to study oil yield loss and operating characteristics in combustion retorting of a rubble bed with physical characteristics comparable to some of those anticipated in field retorts. Shale particle size range and bed porosity were the two parameters selected for simulation (alo...
25 Oil shale project large retort run summary: Run L-31981-11-23Oil shale project large retort run; Run L-3; Tract C-a; Anvil Points; Cracking; Oxidation; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryThe major objectives of Run L-3 were: for a broad size distribution, investigate the effects of a step grade change on retort operations and demonstrate control of retort temperatures; evaluate effects of different shale on retort operations (i.e. Tract C-a versus Anvil Points) and retort oil yield;...
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