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Problems frequently encountered in evaluating tar sand resources-the South Texas San Miguel deposit | 1987-11-02 | evaluating tar sand resources; tar sand resources; South Texas San Miguel deposit; OOIP; tar sand deposit | Good porosity and fluid saturation values are essential for accurately delineating original oil in place (OOIP) and evaluating the effectiveness of in situ recovery methods. Whereas the techniques for measuring and calculating these parameters from cores or downhole logs are well established for mos... |
| 77 |
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Quantum mechanical study of molecular weight growth process by combination of aromatic molecules | 2001 | molecular weight growth; aromatic molecules; Quantum mechanics; Quantum mechanical study; aromatic moietes. | Formation pathways for high-molecular-mass compound growth are presented, showing why reactions between aromatic moieties are needed to explain recent experimental findings. These reactions are then analyzed by using quantum mechanical density functional methods. A sequence of chemical reactions bet... |
| 78 |
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Recovery of bitumen from oil-impregnated sandstone deposits of Utah | 1976 | bitumen recovery; oil-impregnated sandstone deposits; fossil fuels; coal; oil shale; tar sands; Athabasca tar sands | Much attention is being given to fossil fuels such as coal, oil shale, and tar sands, as well as to nuclear, geothermal, wind, and solar energy sources. Characterization of the tar sands from the Uinta Basin is currently underway. Compared with bitumen presently being extracted commercially from Can... |
| 79 |
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Reduction of nitric oxide on the char surface at pulverized combustion conditions | 2002 | reduction of nitric oxide; nitric oxide; pulverized combustion; char formation; char surface | This study presents an experimental evaluation of the rate of nitric oxide reduction on the char surface. It addresses the claim that the rate for the destruction of nitric oxide on the char surface has been underpredicted due to char deactivation in the process of char formation. Experiments conduc... |
| 80 |
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Relationships between composition and pulmonary toxicity of prototype particles from coal combustion and pyrolysis | 2009 | toxicity; prototype particles; coal combustion; pyrolysis; health effects; coal combustion fly-ash particles | The hypothesis that health effects associated with coal combustion fly-ash particles are exacerbated by the simultaneous presence of iron and soot was tested through two sets of experiments. The first set created prototype particles from complete and partial combustion, or oxygen free pyrolysis of a... |
| 81 |
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Resource evaluation of selected tar-sand deposits in southern Oklahoma | 1987-11-02 | resource evaluation; tar-sand deposits; southern Oklahoma; sulphur deposit; bitumen content | The cooperative program between the Oklahoma Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy has permitted evaluation of specific tar-sand deposits in Carter and Murray counties, Oklahoma. The Sulphur deposit was evaluated by a combination of industry and DOE-OGS boreholes. Bitumen content of th... |
| 82 |
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Revised Utah population estimates for the 1990s | 2001-05 | Every 10 years, the U.S. Bureau of the Census conducts a population count. In the intervening years the Utah Population Es timates Committee (UPEC) annually prepares total resident population estimates for each of the 29 counties in the state. These estimates are based on methods that ut i l i z e s... | |
| 83 |
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Salt Lake County's distinctive demographics: implications for the future | 2006-11 | Salt Lake County is the economic, political, and cultural center of Utah. The county is currently home to nearly 40% of Utah residents and generates about half of all jobs in the state. It remains the most populous county, with a million of the state's 2.6 million residents,2 and its daytime populat... | |
| 84 |
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The search for a source rock for the giant Tar Sand Triangle accumulation, southeastern Utah | 1999-03 | source rock; giant Tar Sand Triangle; southeastern Utah; oil resource; heavy oil and tar; oil; Tar Sand Triangle accumulation; thermal modeling | A large proportion (about 36%) of the world's oil resource is contained in accumulations of heavy oil or tar. In these large deposits of degraded oil, the oil in place represents only a fraction of what was present at the time of accumulation. In many of these deposits, the source of the oil is unkn... |
| 85 |
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Size-range analysis of diesel soot with ultra-small angle X-ray scattering | 2005 | desiel soot; ultra-small angle X-ray scattering; Carbonaceous soot; diesel fuel; soot powders; soot | Carbonaceous soot produced in a small diesel engine test facility was investigated with ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering. Three soot samples produced using a reference diesel fuel and the reference fuel plus two oxygenate additives were investigated. The presence of objects at three typical size r... |
| 86 |
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Some possible applications of thermal recovery in Utah | 1965-11 | thermal recovery; applications of thermal recovery; oil reserves; bituminous sandstones; thermal project; bituminous oil sand | The bituminous sandstones of the Rocky Mountain region have significant reserves of oil. Production costs of the reserves must be reduced to be equal to or lower than the cost of crude oil produced by conventional methods. Three Utah deposits alone, Sunny side, Vernal (Asphalt Ridge) and Whiterocks ... |
| 87 |
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Sources and deposition of organic matter in the Monterey Formation, South-Central Coastal basins of California | 1987-11-02 | organic matter; Monterey Formation; Californial ; marine algal debris | The abundant organic matter in the Monterey Formation is commonly considered to be derived from marine algal debris rapidly deposited in anoxic bottom water during a period of high surface plankton productivity. However, many aspects of the distribution of organic matter in the Monterey of the south... |
| 88 |
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State and regional control of geological carbon sequestration (Part I) | 2011-05 | state and regional control; geological carbon sequestration; hydrocarbon fuel; carbon capture; geologic sequestration | In the near future the use of coal may be legally restricted due to concerns over the effects of its combustion on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Carbon capture and geologic sequestration offer one method to reduce carbon emissions from coal and other hydrocarbon fuel. While the federal ... |
| 89 |
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State space sensitivity to a prescribed probability density function shape in coal combustion system: Joint B-PDF versus clipped Gaussian PDF | 2000 | space sensitivity; coal combustion; b-PDF mixing model; three coal-off gas; pulverized-coal research furnace | The turbulent transport of three coal off-gas mixture fractions is coupled to a prescribed joint b-probability- density-function (b-PDF) mixing model. This physical transport and subgrid joint b-PDF mixing model is used to explore the incorporation of coal off-gas compositional disparities between t... |
| 90 |
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Stratigraphy and origin of the Moenkopi Formation (Triassic) of southeastern Utah | 1973-01 | Moenkopi Formation; stratigraphy; regional stratigraphy of southeastern Utah | In southeastern Utah, the Triassic Moenkopi Formation is composed mainly of red and yellowish-gray siltstone, sandstone, mudstone, and limestone. Continuity of individual units is one of the characteristics of this formation and provides a basic for regional correlation. For the purpose of this stud... |
| 91 |
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Sulphur isotope abundances in petroleum and associated materials | 1958-11 | sulphur isotope; petroleum; isotopes of sulphur; sulphur isotope abundances; treatment of oil samples | A study has been made of the sulphur isotope ratios for petroleum from many different oil fields in the United States and Canada. The S34/S32 ratio for petroleum varies by about 4.5 per cent as compared with a total spread of about 9 per cent for terrestrial sulphur. The single large oil pools appea... |
| 92 |
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Surface tar-sand deposits in California | 1987 | surface tar-sand deposits; tar sand; surface tar sand; California; oil seeps; stratigraphy; tar sand deposit structure | Tar sand deposits and oil seeps have been known in California for more than a century and were used in the exploration for many of California's largest oil fields. Sixty deposits visited by this writer yielded 24 deposits totaling 5.27 billion barrels of oil in place and another 36 estimated at 1-2 ... |
| 93 |
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Taking another look at Utah's tar sand resources | 2009 | tar sand; tar sand resources; unconventional energy resource; alternate energy resource; oil impregnated sandstone; oil sand; bitumous sandstone; energy resource | Recent increases in the price of crude oil have sparked renewed interest in unconventional energy resources, including Utah s tar sands. Tar sands (also called oil-impregnated sandstones, oil sands, and bituminous sandstones) are, as the names imply, sandstones that are saturated or filled with blac... |
| 94 |
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Tar sand extraction method due tests | 1986-04-28 | tar sand extraction method; due tests; bitumen recovery; Athabasca sands; Solv-Ex process | Shell Canada aims to recover as much as 96% of bitumen from Athabasca sands with Solv-Ex process in pilot tests at Albuquerque. Results could lead to 1987 decision to proceed with a 7,500 bled mining/extraction project at Alberta site. |
| 95 |
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Tar sand research and development at the University of Utah | 1987 | tar sand research; tar sand development; hydrocarbon recovery; extensive tar sand deposits; in situ thermal production; bitumen; surface mining; hydrocarbon liquid | The recovery of hydrocarbon values from the extensive tar sand deposits of North America has generally been approached by one of two methods: in situ thermal production of the bitumen or of a bitumen-derived liquid or surface mining of the deposit followed by processing of the mined ore. In either a... |
| 96 |
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Technology: Chevron, GNC project described | 1983-03 | GNC project; Energy Corporation's Sunny side Tar Sands Project | The Chevron and GNC Energy Corporation's Sunny side Tar Sands Project will produce 34,675 barrels per operating day of 35°API gravity synthetic crude oil from 37 million tons per year of tar sands ore with an average bitumen content of 8.2 weight percent. The project was described on page 3-1 of th... |
| 97 |
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Thermal recovery may bring industry's "quiet revolution" | 1964-11-23 | thermal recovery; oil revolution; quiet revolution; low-gravity, viscous crude oils; crude oils; bituminous sandstones | Today the American oil industry is in the process of a revolution of such magnitude that its implications are yet to be thoroughly understood. This is the "quiet revolution" which will double the proved oil reserves of the world within the next 10 years and will more than triple those reserves by th... |
| 98 |
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U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration field experiment | 1976-06 | U. S. energy research and development; field experiment; reverse combustion process; oil recovery; tar sand; alternative forward process | The Laramie Energy Research Center of the U. S. Gov Research and Development Administration is equiping a small-scale field experiment to test the reverse combustion process to recover oil from tar sand. This field experiment, the first of a planned series, will extend the results of laboratory work... |
| 99 |
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Using a continuous time lag to determine the associations between ambient PM2.5 hourly levels and daily mortality | 2009-10 | continuous time lag; ambient PM2.5; hourly levels; daily mortality; PM2.5 exposure; short-term fine particulate matter; health effects | The authors are interested in understanding the possible association between exposure to short-term fine particulate matter (PM2.5) peaks that have changing physical characteristics throughout the day and observable health outcomes (daily mortality). To this end, modern statistical methods are used ... |
| 100 |
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Utah tar sands | 1984 | Utah tar sands; survey notes; asphalt; bitumen; tar; land slides; snow slides; petroleum; tar sand resource | The words, tar, asphalt, bitumen, pitch, and heavy oil often have been used to refer to highly viscous liquid, semi-solid, or solid, naturally occurring hydrocarbon substances. The word bitumen originated with the Romans and included all the various types of natural hydrocarbons. In its modern, comm... |