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Oil Shale Process Model (OSP) user's manual | 1995-01-05 | Oil Shale Process model; OSP; 4TU-Pilot; Hot-Recycled-Solids; HRS; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | The Oil Shale Process (OSP) model has proven to be a useful tool for the analysis of the steady-state operation of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Hot-Recycled- Solids 4 tonne-per-day Pilot Retort (4TU-Pilot). This manual is being developed to serve as a guide to users of the OSP model. The... |
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Oil Shale Process Model (OSP) theory manual | 1994-12-06 | Oil Shale Process model; OSP; 4TU-Pilot; Hot-Recycled-Solids; HRS; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | The Oil Shale Process (OSP) model has proven to be a useful tool for the analysis of the steady-state operation of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Hot Recycled Solids 4 tonne-per-day Pilot Retort (4TU-Pilot). This manual has been developed to guide a user through the theoretical basis for e... |
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Oil-impregnated sandstone mapping project Nine Mile Canyon area Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah: A field examination for the Utah Geological Survey | 1971-10-04 | Tributaries; Nine Mile canyon; Argyle canyon; Uinta Basin; Deltaic facies; Green River Formation; Parachute Creek | A 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... |
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Oil shale project run summary, small retort: Run S-24 | 1981-10-07 | Oil shale; MIS; Modified in-situ oil shale retorting; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | A. 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... |
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Oil-impregnated sandstones in Utah and Wayne Counties, Utah | 1972 | Thistle; Utah County; Jurassic sandstone; Thousand Lake Mountain; Wayne County; Oil-impregnated sediments; Asphalt-bearing Tertiary beds | Two 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... |
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Oil shale quarterly report | 1990-09-05 | Aboveground oil shale retorting; Hot-Recycled-Solid; HRS; Pyrolysis; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | We 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... |
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Oil-impregnated sandstones of Raven Ridge, Vernal, Utah | 1972 | Oil-impregnated sandstone; Raven Ridge; Vernal, Utah; Uinta Basin; Utah; Colorado; Wasatch Formation; Green River Formation; Uinta Formation | The 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... |
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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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Oil shale retorting in dense phase hot-solid recycle systems | 1988-06 | | Oil 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... |
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Oil shale retorting processes: A technical overview | 1984-03 | | The 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... |
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APPENDIX A - Analysis of environmental, legal, socioeconomic and policy issues critical to the development of commercial oil shale leasing on the public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming under the mandates of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 - Final Project Report - Reporting period: June 21, 2006 to October 21, 2009 | 2009-10 | Oil shale; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Energy Policy Act of 2005; Green River Formation; Environmental; Legal; Socioeconomic; Policy Issues; Oil shale deposits; BLM; Bureau of Land Management | The United States is home to the largest oil shale deposits in the world. This resource is located in the Green River Formation, spreading across the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Despite the vast potential of this resource, successful commercial development has yet to occur. To date, concer... |
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Economic, repeatable and environmentally responsible | 2012-05-15 | unconventional fuels; U.S. oil sands; oil sand; bitumen | This presentation and the Company's website referenced in this presentation contain forward-looking statements including expectations of future production and components of cash flow and earnings. Investors are cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of such information may prove to be in... |
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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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Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: April 2011 to June 2011 | 2011-07-01 | ICSE; Oil shale; Oil sands; University of Utah; Uinta Basin; Vernal, Utah; CLEARuff model; Oxy-gas burner; Bitumen; Kerogen; X-ray fluorescence analysis; Thermogravimetric analysis; CHNS analysis; Lattice Boltzmann model; American Shale Oil; AMSO | 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. In this quarter, the Clean and Secure Energy program sponsored the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels... |
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Clean and secure energy from Utah's oil shale and oil sands resources: Environmental, legal and policy framework | 2010-04-28 | ICSE; Land use; Water availability; Produced water; Utah; Colorado; Colorado River | This poster addresses major challenges to land use, water availability, and produced water. |
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Federal oil shale development: Status of Bureau of Land Management oil shale activities | 2011-05-17 | oil shale development; oil shale; land management; Bureau of Land Management; domestic oil shale | |
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory oil shale project review: METC third annual oil shale contractors meeting | 1988-07-20 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; oil shale retorting alternatives; oil shale process development; oil shale | The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory combines laboratory and pilot-scale experimental measurements with mathematical modeling of fundamental chemistry and physics to provide a technical base for evaluating oil shale retorting alternatives. Presented herein are results of four research areas of... |
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Ion chromatographic analysis of oil shale leachates | 1990-10-01 | ion chromatography; oil shale leachates; anions | Ion chromatography can be used for the rapid separation and determination of ions in aqueous solutions that would otherwise require a plethora of classical wet chemical techniques. Ion chromatography is finding increasing use in environmental analysis as well as the petroleum and fossil fuel industr... |
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Method of recovering viscous petroleum from tar sand | 1976-11-30 | Patent; Viscous petroleum recovery; Tar sands | Recovery of viscous petroleum such as from tar sands is assisted using a substantially vertical passage from the earth's surface which penetrates the tar sand and has extending therefrom a lateral hole containing a flow path isolated from the tar sand for circulating a hot fluid to and from the vert... |
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Method for treating a tar sand reservoir to enhance petroleum production by cyclic steam stimulation | 1986-08-26 | tar sand drainage; patent; enhanced petroleum production; cyclic steam stimulation; tar sand treatment | A method for conditioning the virgin drainage area of a tar sand formation that is penetrated by a well for enhanced petroleum production by cyclic steam stimulation is described. The method comprises fracturing the drainage area by injection of liquid carbon dioxide. While carbon dioxide is still i... |
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Land and resource management topical report and produced water topical report | 2011-03-08 | water topical report; land management; resource management; oil sands; oil shale | |
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Assessment of research needs for oil recovery from heavy-oil sources and tar sands | 1982-03 | | The Fossil Energy Research Working Group (FERWG), at the request of J. W. Mares (Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy) and A. W. Trivelpiece (Director, Office of Energy Research), has reviewed and evaluated the U.S. programs on oil recovery from heavy oil sources and tar sands. These studies were p... |
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Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: January 2012 to March 2012 | 2012-04 | ICSE; University of Utah; Green River Basin; CO2 capture; Oil sands; Crude oil refining; International Flame Research Foundation; IFRF; Oil shale; Pyrolysis; Thermogravimetric analysis; TGA; TEA-C burner; Uinta Basin; Flameless oxy-gas process heaters; Efficient CO2 capture; Liquid Fuel Production ... | 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. In outreach efforts, ICSE participated in a session on oil sands at the Utah Governor's Annual Energy Deve... |
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Clean and secure energy from coal - Phase 3 statement of project objectives | 2011-07-01 | ICSE; University of Utah; CO2 capture; Oxy-coal combustion; Domestic coal resources; Stationary power generation; Clean coal utilization; Chemical looping combustion; CLC; High-pressure entrained-flow coal gasification; IGCC; SNG; NGCC; CNG | The University of Utah (the Recipient), via their Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE), shall pursue 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 orga... |
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General kinetic model of oil shale pyrolysis | 1984-12 | oil shale; oil shale pyrolysis; pyrolysis | A mathematical model for pyrolysis of Green River oil shale is developed from previous experiments on oil, water, and gas evolution and oil cracking over a wide range of pyrolysis conditions. Reactions included are evolution of 5 gas species, oil, and water from kerogen, clay dehydration, oil coking... |