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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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A unified approach to the various formulations of the one-dimensional-turbulence model | 2010-01 | One-Dimensional Turbulence model; ODT; Stand-alone ODT models; Predicting turbulence statistics; Nonreacting flows; Reacting flows; Governing equations; Turbulent flow field; Linear Eddy Model; Eddy events | The One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model has been successfully applied as a stand-alone model for predicting turbulence statistics in both nonreacting and reacting flows. There are several formulations of the model in the literature, and most of the variable-density formulations do not clearly dis... |
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A volume of fluid approach to model injection of highly viscous fluids | 2022 | Despite the transition to renewable energy sources, fossil fuels will still play a significant role in satisfying the world's energy needs shortly. In addition, the rise in the demand for light distillates and the depletion of light crude oil reservoirs are shifting the interest toward the conversio... | |
| 29 |
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Abridged life tables for males and females: Utah and its planning districts, 1980 | 1985-10 | ||
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Accelerating deployment of retrofitable CO2 capture technologies through predictivity: (Simulation, verification, validation / uncertainty quantification) - 2010 Annual report (for year 1 of 3) to DOE NNSA from The University of Utah | 2011 | CO2; CO2 capture technologies; predictivity; fossil-fuel utilization | There is an ever increasing national awareness that an effective, sustainable energy future must include fossil-fuel utilization that deploys cost-efficient technologies (both new and retrofit) that significantly improve energy efficiencies and reduce CO2 emissions over existing electric power and t... |
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Administration & Faculty | A description of the administration and faculty members at the University of Utah. | ||
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Advanced emissions monitoring from elevated gas flares for early warning system and optimization of plant operations | 2019 | Real-time monitoring of emissions from elevated gas flares is very difficult and expensive due to the relative location of the source and the cost to collect samples for analysis. Elevated Analytics has developed and applied a UAV based sensor system to accomplish this task. Besides providing a snap... | |
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The advantages of monitoring flare pilots with instantaneous response | 2020 | This paper will discuss applications for and details of a fiber optic pilot monitoring system that addresses known, specific challenges in the market. For decades, thermocouples have been the most widely accepted device for determining flare pilot status. However, there is a growing desire in the in... | |
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Age and sex population projection for Utah counties: 1975-2010 (High medium Projection) | 2010 | ||
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Age and sex population projections for Utah conunties: 1975-2010. (Low Medium Projection) | 2010 | ||
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Age and sex population projections for Utah conunties: 1975-2010. (Low Projection) | 2010 | ||
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America's oil shale: A roadmap for federal decision making | 2004-12 | Oil shale resources; Oil supply; U.S. economy; Domestic oil shale; Oil production; Multi-agency Federal oil shale plan; Energy; Interior; Defense; Treasury; America; Import dependence; Natural gas by-products; Oil price; Oil supply and demand | The President and the Department of Energy have determined that increasing liquid fuels supply from domestic sources is an important national objective. America's rich and concentrated oil shale resources, containing as much as 2 trillion barrels of potential oil supply could make a major contributi... |
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America's strategic unconventional fuels: Oil shale, tar sands, coal derived liquids, heavy oil, CO2 enhanced recovery and storage | 2007-09 | Colorado; Wyoming; Oil shale development; In-situ; Environmental impacts; Water supply issues; Economics; Socio-ecomonic impacts; Infrastructure; Market challenges; Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement; PEIS; RD&D; BLM; Leasing program; Federal lands; Oil Shale Program Plan; Energy Policy Act | The Task Force members from Colorado and Wyoming have expressed legitimate concerns about the timing and sequence of Federal efforts to promulgate commercial leasing regulations for oil shale development and initiate leasing activity. They are concerned that the current state of development of surfa... |
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Ammonia for industrial combustion | ammonia combustion; hydrogen; methane | Many companies are investigating switching from conventional fossil fuels to "green" fuels such as hydrogen to reduce CO2 emissions. This assumes hydrogen is made by an environmentally-friendly method such as electrolysis using renewable energy. However, there are concerns with hydrogen. For example... | |
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An air-assisted flare for biomass gasifiers | 2019 | Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to simulate the combustion practice of the gases that produce from gasification process. In this simulation a new air-assisted flare design which capable to handle low flowrates of these gases with high performance was used. The simulated cases were perfor... | |
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An analysis of cost improvement in chemical process technologies | 1989-05 | Chemical process technologies; Cost improvement; Chemical industry; U.S. | Cost improvement--sometimes called the learning curve or progress curve--plays a crucial role in the competitiveness of the U.S. chemical industry. |
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An analysis of land use in the Salt Lake, Ogden and Utah Valley Area transportation studies 1960 1970, and 1995 | 1972-12 | In early 1971, the Center for Business and Economic Research contracted with the Utah State Department of Highways to develop and apply a methodology for forecasting employment, population, dwelling units and various land use categories for the Salt Lake Area Transportation Study (SLATS), the Ogden ... | |
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An analysis of the tar sand deposit on the Rocky Mountain exploration company whiterocks federal lease Uintah County, Utah | 1982-11 | Rocky Mountain Exploration Company (hereafter called Rocky) of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas, holds a 240-acre federal combined hydrocarbon lease in Sections 17 and 18, T 2 N, R 1 E, UE5SM, Uintah County, Utah. The lease lies in the Ashley National Forest. Road distance is 27 miles north ... | |
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An assessment of oil shale and tar sand development in the state of Utah: Phase 1 | 1980-05 | Oil shale; Tar sand; Utah; Synthetic fuels; Tar sand development; Tar sand deposits | This assessment is the result of an interest and commitment by the State of Utah to both promote development of its vast energy resources and to manage the impacts associated with such development. As the development of Utah oil shale and tar sands became more imminent a specific proposal to study t... |
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An assessment of oil shale and tar sand development in the state of Utah: Phase 2--policy analysis | 1982 | Oil shale; Tar sand development; Utah; Synthetic fuels; Uintah Basin; Northeastern Utah; Petroleum reserves; Tar sand; Oil; Synthetic Fuel commercialization viability | The potential development of synthetic fuels in the United States has been characterized by a great variation in preceived economies. The interest has been on an upswing during the decade of the 1970's due to the possibility of synthetic fuels lessening U.S. dependence on foreign oil. However, even ... |
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An evaluation of the extraction, transport and refining of imported crude oils and the impact on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions | 2009-03-27 | imported crude oils; life cycle of greenhouse gas emissions; greenhouse gas emissions; crude oil; GHG emissions | The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has analyzed the full life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of transportation fuels derived from domestic crude oil and crude oil imported from specific countries. Estimates of the well-to-tank (WTT) GHG emissions associated with producing diesel ... |
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An evaluation of triple quadrupole ms/ms for on-line analyses of trace sulfur compounds from oil shale processing | 1985 | In order to effectively reduce sulfur gas content from shale processing to environmentally acceptable levels, H2S, COS, S02 and CH3SH plus trace sulfur compounds must be removed. Of these, the trace sulfur compounds have not been well characterized but should be known to ppm levels In order to optim... | |
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An experimental study on the thermal decomposition of catechol | 2002 | Thermal Decomposition; Catechol; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; PAH; Pyrolysis; ortho-dihydroxybenzene; Phenol decomposition; biomass; coal; wood; Kinetic model; Pyrolytic catechol decomposition; PAH formation and growth | In order to better elucidate the role of thermal decomposition products in the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from complex fuels, we have performed pyrolysis experiments in a tubularflow reactor, using the model fuel catechol (ortho-dihydroxybenzene), a phenol-type compound repr... |
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An industrial development information system for Utah | 1969-12 | ||
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Analyses of oil extracted from oil-impregnated sandstone deposits in Utah | 1972-01 | This study, in progress from 1967 to 1970, is part of a systematic effort to find, map and sample Utah's oil-impregnated rock deposits. Samples were collected by ten individuals in field parties who examined oil-impregnated rock occurrences throughout the state. Samples 68-3A and 68-4A are from aban... |