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A technical, economic, and legal assessment of North American heavy oil, oil sands, and oil shale resources: In response to Energy Policy Act of 2005 Section 369(p) | 2007-09 | Oil sands; Oil shale; Heavy oil; Energy Policy Act; 2005; Climate Change; Petroleum; Oil Cost; United States; North American heavy oil; Utah Heavy Oil Program; UHOP; World economic development; Energy; Canadian oil sands; Unconventional resources ;Technical; Economic; Legal assessment | Against the backdrop of world population growth, rapid economic expansion in the world's most populous countries, challenging political climates in many oil-producing nations, and the specter of climate change, worldwide energy consumption is projected to increase from the 2004 level of just over 40... |
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Carbon dioxide sequestration: Effect of the presence of sulfur dioxide on the mineralogical reactions and on the injectivity of CO2+SO2 mixtures | 2010-01 | Carbon dioxide sequestration; CO2; Sequestration stream; Gas injection; CO2+SO2 mixture; Brine; Arkose; Calcite; Anhydrite; Calcium carbonate; CaCO3; Ankerite; Absolute permeabilities; Free-gas; Dissolved gas distribution; Saline formation; Contaminant gases; sulfur dioxide; SO2; Hydrogen sulfide; H... | This report presents experimental and modeling data on certain aspects of carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration. As different processes are developed and implemented to facilitate the capture of CO2, other contaminant gases (sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia) may be present in the sequestrat... |
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Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources Quarterly Progress Report | | Quarterly report, CASE quarterly report | Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources Quarterly Progress Report for Project Period: April 2015 to June 2015 |
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Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: October 2009 to December 2009 | 2010-02-03 | ICSE; Clean and Secure Energy program; CASE; Itasca Group; Red Leaf Resources; Enshale's; Vernal, Utah; oxy-fuel; CO2 capture; Oil shale; Oil sands; Crude oil; CO2 emissions; International Flame Research Foundation; Pyrolysis; Lattice Boltzmann; Kerogen; Oil recovery simulation; TGA; Dry shale; Pyro... | The Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources program is part of the research agenda of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE) at the University of Utah. The program was officially launched on October 1, 2009. The project management plan was submitted for revi... |
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Evaluating opportunities for reducing life-cycle, well-to pump GHG emissions from conventional and unconventional fuels | 2010-04-28 | unconventional fuels; GHG emissions; conventional fuels; reducing life-cycle; oil shale; oil sands; coal | Resource extraction and upgrading. |
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Federal control of greenhouse gas emissions | 2010-04-28 | greenhouse gas emissions; federal control efforts; domestic legislation | Federal Control Efforts: 1) International 2) New Domestic Legislation 3) Using Existing Domestic Legislation |
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Fluidization of coked sands and pyrolysis of oil sands in a fluidized bed reactor (Abstract only) | 1995-12 | fluidization of coked sands; pyrolysis of oil sands; fluidized bed reactor; coked sands; oil sands | A 7.62 cm diameter fluidized bed oil sands pyrolysis system was designed, installed, and operated. The studies conducted with this system included coked sands and oil sands feeding using a bin discharge auger feeder, the withdrawal of solids from a fluidized bed using a modified Lvalve, fluidization... |
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From oil sand to fuel pump: The challenges of upgrading oil sand bitumen | 2006-09-21 | oil sand; upgrading oil sand bitumen; oil sand bitumen; oil sands development; crude; bitumen | Oil sands development--develop a resource that has market value. |
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Gasification studies - Task 4 topical report, Utah Clean Coal Program, Reporting period October 2009 - July 2011 | 2011-10 | Gasification; pressurized entrained-flow coal gasifiers; coal | A key objective of the Task 4 activities has been to develop simulation tools to support development, troubleshooting and optimization of pressurized entrained-flow coal gasifiers. The overall gasifier models (Subtask 4.1) combine submodels for fluid flow (Subtask 4.2) and heat transfer (Subtask 4.3... |
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GEOMECHANICAL AND FLUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIES | | | GEOMECHANICAL AND FLUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIES Topical Report |
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High efficiency electrical generation | 2008-05-23 | efficiency of electrical generation; electrical generation; fossil fuel energy resources; mitigatint GHG emissions; CO2 capture and sequestration | Outline: 1-Electricity outlook and fossil fuel energy resources. 2-Technology options for mitigating GHG emissions. 3-CO2 cpature and sequestration. 4-Costs. 5-Concluding remarks. |
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High performance computing (hpc) in unconventional fuel production | 2013-05-07 | ICSE; Unconventional fuels; High performance computing; unconventional fuel production | Presentation given at the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7, 2013. |
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High-pressure, entrained flow gasification hierarchy | 2009-11-04 | gasification hierarchy; entrained flow; high-pressure gasification | Hierarchical chart for the high-pressure, entrained flow gasification research area showing connectivity between subtasks. This chart helps illustrate gasification integration and focus and also serves as a management tool for the various subtasks. Subtasks in brown and orange are currently funded t... |
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Hydrotreating the Whiterocks oil sand bitumen and bitumen-derived liquid (Abstract only) | 1992-12 | hydrotreating; Whiterocks oil; oil sand; bitumen; bitumen-derived liquid; bitumen conversion; heteroatom reduction; heteroatom | Conversion of Utah's Uinta Basin bitumens to liquid fuels requires molecular weight reduction of the parent material as well as removal of heteroatoms. Heteroatom reduction of bitumen obtained through solvent extraction of Whiterocks oil sand was investigated. A comparison of the relative processabi... |
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In situ oil shale/sands thermal treatment hierarchy | 2009-11-04 | hierarchial chart; in situ oil shale/sands; thermal treatment research; liquid fuel production; in situ thermal treatment technologies | Hierarchical chart for the in situ oil shale/sands thermal treatment research area showing connectivity between subtasks. This chart helps illustrate the integration and focus among the subtasks needed to achieve liquid fuel production demonstrations of in situ thermal treatment technologies and als... |
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In situ production of Utah oil sands | 2008-03-12 | in situ; Utah oil sands; oil sands production; tar sand deposits; Whiterocks eolian sandstone | |
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In situ production of Utah oil sands | 2009-02-27 | in situ; oil sands production; Utah oil sands; in situ process; thermal simulator; thermal compositional model; steam assisted gravity drainage; SAGD; heterogenetics; in-situ combustion; hydraulic fracture; hybrid process | Analysis of issues relevant to in situ production of Utah oil sands, presented at the 2009 Western U.S. Oil Sands Conference by Milind Deo, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah. |
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Industrial petroleum research at the University of Utah | 2008-03-12 | industrial petroleum; University of Utah; oil and gas characterization; oil and gas thermodynamics; Unconventional Consortium | Expertise: Oil and Gas Characterization, Hydrocarbon Thermodynamics -High-temperature, high high-pressure oil oil-gas mixtures -Supercritical extraction -Solid (asphaltenes, waxes) precipitation precipitation -Reservoir Characterization and Simulation -Fractured reservoir simulation -Reaction chemis... |
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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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KTIA corporate introduction | 2009-02-27 | KTIA; KTI; mines | Overview of KTIA's continuing oil sands development activities in Utah, presented at the 2009 Western U.S. Oil Sands Conference by Soung-Joon Kim, Chief Operating Officer, Korea Technology Industry America, Inc. |
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Lands with wilderness characteristics, Resource Management Plan constraints, and land exchanges: Cross-jurisdictional management and impacts on unconventional fuel development in Utah's Uinta Basin | 2012-03 | Utah oil shale; oil sands; unconventional fuel resources; land exchanges; land rights | Utah is rich in oil shale and oil sands resources. Chief among the challenges facing prospective unconventional fuel developers is the ability to access these resources. Access is heavily dependent upon land ownership and applicable management requirements. Understanding constraints on resource acce... |
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Oxy-fuel hierarchy | 2009-11-04 | oxy-fuel combustion; different fuel types; ICSE | Hierarchical chart for the oxy-fuel combustion research area showing connectivity between subtasks. This research area includes coal, gas, and oil oxy-burner technologies. This chart helps illustrate the integration and focus among the different fuel types and different scales represented in the hie... |
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Oxy-gas process heaters for efficient CO2 capture | 2010-04-28 | oil shale and oil sands technology; greenhouse gas emissions; GHG; large eddy simulation; LES; IFRF OXYFLAM | Implementation of oil shale/sands technologies in U.S. will require mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. |
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P. R. spring oil-impregnated sandstone deposit Uintah and Grand Counties, Utah | 1970-02 | oil-impregnated sandstone beds; oil impregnation; oil shale; lenticular sandstones; siltstones | Oil-impregnated sandstone beds underlie at least 214 square miles in the southeastern Uinta Basin and may extend northward beneath cover. One to as many as five principal saturated zones, 3 to 75 feet thick, occur in a 250-foot interval that dips gently northward. The northernmost outcrops are overl... |
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Particle image velocimetry of pulverized oxy-coal flames | 2010-11-10 | oxy-fuel combustion of pulverized coal; oxy-fuel; pulverized coal; power production; carbon capture and sequestration; emission reductions | Oxy-fuel combustion of pulverized coal is a promising technology for cost-effective power production with carbon capture and sequestration that has impacts on emission reductions. To fully understand the behavior of turbulent oxy-coal flames, and to validate oxy-coal simulation models, accurate expe... |