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226 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: October 1- December 31, 19961996shale oil; value enhancement; flow THDA reactor system; KPX product slateConcurrent activities are ongoing in all key area, namely, (a) construction and startup of a flow THDA reactor system, (b) development of KPX product slate, and (c) conducting industrial liaison for assembly of the KPX consortium. Excellent progress is being made in all cases. Our market analysis an...
227 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: April 1 - June 30, 19951995shale oil; value enhancementA review of the marketing, compositional analysis, and process data has pointed to a simplification of the process scheme envisaged for the phase-II continuous process work. This translates into a higher probability of success, both for the R&D and the likelihood of securing an industrial partner fo...
228 Shale oil value enhancement research - Qarterly report: July 1 - September 30, 19941994shale oil; value enhancement; process sequence alternativesActivities during this quarter focused on using the phase-l results to define process sequence alternatives for phase-ll. Two process alternatives have been devised while obtaining the desired marketable product slate. The status of required process units has been evaluated. While there are some uni...
229 Oil recovery from a Utah tar sand deposit by in situ combustion1978-06-06The U. S. tar sand resource consists of an estimated 30 billion barrels (4.7Gm^3 ) of oil. Most of this resource is in six large deposits in Utah. Through research and development to prove tar sand oil recovery methods, the Department of Energy is attempting to stimulate commercialization of this re...
230 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: March 1 - May 31, 19961996shale oil; value enhancement; compound type analysis of shale oilThe quarter's efforts were concentrated on (a) compound type analysis of shale oil and its extraction products, (b) thermal hydrodealkylation of the >290 °C polar fraction, (c) reaction of pyridinic type compounds to form secondary products, (d) updating SPX economic analysis, and (e) preparation o...
231 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: June 1 - August 31, 19961996shale oil; value enhancement; compound type analysis; kerogen derived productsThe quarter's efforts were concentrated on (a) THDA and reaction of alkylpyridines at elevated conditions, (b) compound type analysis of kerogen oil and its derived products, (b) thermal hydrodealkylation of the >290 °C polar fraction, (c) secondary reactions of pyridinic type compounds to form mar...
232 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: September 1 - November 30, 19951995Shale oil; value enhancement; shale oil extraction products; extraction processActivities during this quarter focused on compound type analysis of shale oil extraction products and improvement of the continuous extraction process. We have installed a walk-in fume hood to improve the ventilation of our working environment while handling of larger amounts of shale oil and volati...
233 Sedimentology of oil-impregnated, lacustrine and fluvial sandstone, P.R. Spring area, southeast Uinta Basin, Utah1970-08sedimentology; lacustrine and fluvial sandstone; P. R. Spring area; Oil-impregnated lacustrine and fluvial sandstoneOil-impregnated intervals, up to 75 feet thick within a stratigraphic interval of about 250 feet in the Garden Gulch and Parachute Creek Members of the Green River Formation (Eocene), are exposed in beds that dip gently northward in the P. R. Spring area. Reserve estimates indicate that there may be...
234 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: October 1 - December 31, 19931993Shale oil; value enhancement; molecular types of shale oilThe first year of this effort was focussed on the following broad objectives: -Analyze the molecular types present in shale oil (as a function of molecular weight distribution ); - Determine the behavior of these molecular types in liquid-liquid extraction; -Develop the analytical tools needed to sy...
235 Results of mathematical modeling of an oil shale retort having a fluidized-bed pyrolyzer and a lift-pipe combustor1988-10Mathematical modeling; oil shale retort; fluidized-bed pyrolyzer; lift-pipe combustor; computer modelA commercial-size, hot-solids recycle retorting process, consisting of a staged fluidized-bed pyrolyzer and a lift-pipe combustor, was simulated using a previously developed mathematical model. The focus of this work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is to show the effects of varying ...
236 Retorting and combustion processes in surface oil-shale retorts1981-03batch oil-shale retorting process; surface oil-shale retorts; oil shaleLawrence Livermore National Laboratory's mathematical model for a batch oil-shale retorting process has proved useful in understanding in situ retorting in a bed of oil-shale rubble. This model is based on an improved understanding of the physical and chemical processes involved in retorting. It has...
237 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: March 1 - May 31, 19941994shale oil; value enhancement; identification of molecular types in shale oil; molecular compositionActivities during this quarter focused on integrating the various tasks and elements. During Phase-I, substantial effort was placed on designing and automating the identification of molecular types present in shale oil. The ability to know the molecular composition and to track a given "target" spec...
238 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: October 1 - December 31, 19931993shale oil; value enhancement; raw shale oil; market shale oil projectA major push was made to identify the hydrocarbon and heteroatom types present in raw shale oil. A comprehensive, qualitative picture of the <400°C material has been obtained. In addition to the expected types, e.g., pyridines, pyrroles, indoles and phenols, the presence of aliphatic carboxylic aci...
239 Report on preliminary results of aerosol measurments at the Rio Blanco oil shale retort, burn #11982-02aerosol measurements; Rio Blanco oil shale retort; oil shale retort; Rio Blanco Retort; characterize potential air emissionsBoth the treated and untreated off-gas streams were totally saturated with water vapor at the two sampling locations. The untreated off-gas contained large amounts of liquid water droplets. These contained from 0.04 to 0.09% (by weight] oil. Approximately half of the stack emitted particulate materi...
240 Separation and utilization studies of bitumens from bituminous sandstones of the Vernal and Sunnyside, Utah, deposits1952-05separation studies; utilization studies; bituminous sandstones; Vernal, Utah deposit; Sunnyside, Utah deposit; bitumen separation techniques; bitumen separationIn the search for possible future sources of petroleum products, the recovery and utilization of bitumens from the large outcropping deposits of bituminous sandstones in the United States have been under study by the Bureau of Mines for the past several years. The results of laboratory research in t...
241 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: December 1, 1994 - February 28, 19951995shale oil; value enhancementThe quarter's efforts were aimed towards completing phase-l. We expect to complete phase-l in the next quarter. The final in phase-l will produce the new economic estimates to use as guidelines for phase-l I activities. Progress on phase-ll has been initiated with the focus being on completing fabri...
242 Research investigations in oil shale, tar sand, coal research, advanced exploratory process technology, and advanced fuels research: Volume 2--jointly sponsored research program1994-09oil shale; tar sand; coal research; advanced exporatory process technology; advanced fuels research; JSRP; Contained Recovery of Oily WastesThis report summarizes the major research investigations conducted by the Western Research Institute (WRI) under Cooperative Agreement DE-FC21-86MCll076 with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) over the period October 1986 through September 1993. In 1989 a Jointly Sponsored Research Program (JSRP) w...
243 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: January 1 - March 31, 19961996shale oil; value enhancement; compound type analysisActivities during this quarter focused on (a) compound type analysis of shale oil and its extraction products, (b) thermal hydrodealkylation of the > 290°C polar fraction, and (c) economic analysis of the SPX project. At the end of this quarter, Mr. Jerry Wiser - the chief process engineer of JWBA,...
244 Retorting kinetics for oil shale from fluidized-bed pyrolysis1981-12retorting kinetics; oil shale; fluidized-bed pyrolysis; aboveground oil shale retorting; developing diagnostic techniquesA quartz isothermal fluidized-bed reactor has been constructed in order to measure kinetics and oil properties relevant to surface processing of oil shale. The rate of volatile hydrocarbon evolution is measured with a flameionization detector. Oil yield and composition is determined via subsequent a...
245 Report on the Utah rock Asphalt property, Sunnyside bituminous sandstone deposit, Carbon County, Utah1960-01-30Utah rock Asphalt property; Sunnyside deposit; bituminous sandstone; separation and utilization of biumen from sandstoneThe bituminous sandstone deposits near Sunnysida, Utah, are the largest known deposits of this material in the United States. They offer the basis for a large scale operation designed to produce petroleum products and petro chemicals. The deposits are situated near the top of the Book Cliffs, a sout...
246 Results of mathematical modeling of an oil shale retort having a fluidized-bed pyrolyzer and a lift-pipe combustor1988-01mathematical modeling; oil shale retort; fluidezed-bed pyrolyzer; lift-pipe combustior; varying key process parametersMany aboveground processes have been proposed for retorting oil shale. The common objective is to heat oil shale particles to 450-600°C to pyrolyze the kerogen in the shale and form oil. Either hot gas or hot solid particles may be used to supply heat to the shale. Hot-solids processes heat the coo...
247 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: June 1 - August 31, 19931993shale oil; value enhancement; shale oil-derived productsAll tasks are on schedule, or ahead of schedule. Particular progress has been made in identifying industrial entities, commodities and specialty products of target interest for shale oil-derived products. There is clearly a major emphasis worldwide on new chemicals and shale oil-derived structures a...
248 Shale oil value enhancement research - Quarterly report: September 1, - November 30, 19941994shale oil; value enhancement; polars processing schemeThe focus of the phase-l research effort is now on exploratory level verification of the candidate process schemes. We are quite confident of the basic strategy, namely, division of the barrel by polarity and separate processing of the polar and non-polar streams. Processing of the non-polar stream ...
249 Shale oil recovery systems incorporating ore beneficiation1982-10shale oil; shale oil recovery systems; ore beneficiation; potential attractiveness of new large-scale systems; oil recoveryThis study analyzed the recovery of oil from oil shale by use of proposed systems which incorporate beneficiation of the shale ore (that is, concentration of the kerogen) before the oil-recovery step. The objective was to identify systems which could be more attractive than conventional surface reto...
250 Report on geological potential of the areas adjacent to the proposed Ouray-Interstate 70 highway1992-02-14geological potential; conventional and alternative energy resources; oil shale; tar sandsThe area affected by the development of the highway (hereafter referred to as the study area) consists of approximately 1,824,000 acres of land that contain known and potential mineral and energy resources. The study area is located in the eastcentral and southeastern Uinta Basin, and the lowlands s...
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