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GEOMECHANICAL AND FLUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIES | | | GEOMECHANICAL AND FLUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIES Topical Report |
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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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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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Phase II: Clean and Secure Energy from Coal: Quarterly Progress Report: January 1, 2011 to March 30, 2011 | 2011-05-01 | domestic coal resources; CO2 capture; coal; Oxycoal simulation team; coal sequestration | The University of Utah is pursuing research to utilize the vast energy stored in our domestic coal resources and to do so in a manner that will capture CO2 from combustion from stationary power generation. The research is organized around the theme of validation and uncertainty quantification throug... |
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Phase 2: Clean and secure energy from coal: Quarterly progress report: October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 | 2011-01-31 | domestic coal resources; CO2 capture; stationary power generation; LES; DQMOM approach; oxy-coal flames; coal | The University of Utah is pursuing research to utilize the vast energy stored in our domestic coal resources and to do so in a manner that will capture CO2 from combustion from stationary power generation. The research is organized around the theme of validation and uncertainty quantification throug... |
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Phase 2: Clean and secure energy from coal: Quarterly progress report: July 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010 | 2010-10-01 | domestic coal resources; CO2 capture; stationary power generation; Oxycoal; OFC; coal | The University of Utah is pursuing research to utilize the vast energy stored in our domestic coal resources and to do so in a manner that will capture CO2 from combustion from stationary power generation. The research is organized around the theme of validation and uncertainty quantification throug... |
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Phase 2: Clean and secure energy from coal: Quarterly progress report: April 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010 | 2010-08-01 | domestic coal resources; CO2 capture; stationary power generation; DQMOM approach | The University of Utah is pursuing research to utilize the vast energy stored in our domestic coal resources and to do so in a manner that will capture CO2 from combustion from stationary power generation. The research is organized around the theme of validation and uncertainty quantification throug... |
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Phase 2: Clean and secure energy from coal: Quarterly progress report: October 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009 | 2010-01-30 | domestic coal resources; CO2 capture; stationary power generation; oxy-coal flames; coal gasification process | The University of Utah is pursuing research to utilize the vast energy stored in our domestic coal resources and to do so in a manner that will capture CO2 from combustion from stationary power generation. The research is organized around the theme of validation and uncertainty quantification throug... |
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Policy analysis of water availability and use issues for domestic oil shale and oil sands development: Topical Report: October 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010 | 2010-03 | oil shale/sands resources; energy source; unconventional fuels; water demands; water availability; domestic oil shale/sands development; topical report | Oil shale and oil sands resources located within the intermountain west represent a vast, and as of yet, commercially untapped source of energy. Development will require water, and demand for scarce water resources stands at the front of a long list of barriers to commercialization. Water requiremen... |
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Policy analysis of produced water issues associated with in-situ thermal technologies: Topical report: October 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010 | 2011-01 | topical report; produced water issues; in situ thermal technologies; oil shale/sands; water rights; domestic energy source | Commercial scale oil shale and oil sands development will require water, the amount of which will depend on the technologies adopted and the scale of development that occurs. Water in oil shale and oil sands country is already in scarce supply, and because of the arid nature of the region and limita... |
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Pore scale analysis of oil sand/oil shale pyrolysis by X-ray Micro CT and LB simulation | 2010-03-03 | pore scale analysis; oil sand/shale pyrolysis; X-ray Micro CT and LB simulation; Lamellar Structure of Oil Shale | The research objectives include (1) CT characterization of the pore network structure for selected oil sand/oil shale resources, (2) LB simulation of flow through pore network structures to predict transport properties, such as permeability, and (3) CT analysis of pore network structure during pyrol... |
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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... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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... |