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126 Three canister regenerative thermal oxidizer with secondary & tertiary heat recoveryThis system layout was initially developed for a Metal Finishing operation to have a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer, as a pollution control device, and at the same time recycles hot air back into the process. There is a Secondary Heat Exchanger, which recovers un-used heat from the Regenerative Therm...
127 Using numberical simulation to diagnose boiler tube failuresA VU-60 type boiler has been commissioned in 1999 for a water desalinization plant. It is used for the production of 369 tonne/hr of saturated steam at pressure of 22 barg. Natural gas is fired through six front fired burners which can be adjusted in the field to obtain an appropriate flame shape fo...
128 Northwest Commission on Colleges & Universities: University of Utah Reaccreditation Activity Schedule2006-10-10Accreditation; Higher Education, University of Utah2006 accreditation schedule
129 Report on Utah's second year of planning for the four corners regional commission1970-09scope of work contained in Article I set forth five specific program elements on which services were to be rendered. These were: 1. Continue to develop and refine criteria and evaluation procedures for assigning priorities to projects submitted for funding by the Four Corners Regional Commission....
130 Oil Shale Process Model (OSP) code development manual1994-12-06Oil Shale Process model; OSP; 4TU-Pilot; HRS; Hot-Recycled-Solid; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryThe 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 development of source ...
131 Oil Shale Process Model (OSP) user's manual1995-01-05Oil Shale Process model; OSP; 4TU-Pilot; Hot-Recycled-Solids; HRS; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryThe 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...
132 Oil Shale Process Model (OSP) theory manual1994-12-06Oil Shale Process model; OSP; 4TU-Pilot; Hot-Recycled-Solids; HRS; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryThe 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...
133 Oil-impregnated sandstone mapping project Nine Mile Canyon area Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah: A field examination for the Utah Geological Survey1971-10-04Tributaries; Nine Mile canyon; Argyle canyon; Uinta Basin; Deltaic facies; Green River Formation; Parachute CreekA 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...
134 Oil shale project run summary, small retort: Run S-241981-10-07Oil shale; MIS; Modified in-situ oil shale retorting; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryA. 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...
135 Oil-impregnated sandstones in Utah and Wayne Counties, Utah1972Thistle; Utah County; Jurassic sandstone; Thousand Lake Mountain; Wayne County; Oil-impregnated sediments; Asphalt-bearing Tertiary bedsTwo 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...
136 Oil shale quarterly report1990-09-05Aboveground oil shale retorting; Hot-Recycled-Solid; HRS; Pyrolysis; Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryWe 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...
137 Oil-impregnated sandstones of Raven Ridge, Vernal, Utah1972Oil-impregnated sandstone; Raven Ridge; Vernal, Utah; Uinta Basin; Utah; Colorado; Wasatch Formation; Green River Formation; Uinta FormationThe 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...
138 Oil shale retorting in dense phase hot-solid recycle systems1988-06Oil 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...
139 Oil shale retorting processes: A technical overview1984-03The 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...
140 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, 20092009-10Oil shale; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Energy Policy Act of 2005; Green River Formation; Environmental; Legal; Socioeconomic; Policy Issues; Oil shale deposits; BLM; Bureau of Land ManagementThe 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...
141 Gasification studies - Task 4 topical report, Utah Clean Coal Program, Reporting period October 2009 - July 20112011-10Gasification; pressurized entrained-flow coal gasifiers; coalA 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...
142 Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: April 2011 to June 20112011-07-01ICSE; 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; AMSOThe 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...
143 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory oil shale project review: METC third annual oil shale contractors meeting1988-07-20Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; oil shale retorting alternatives; oil shale process development; oil shaleThe 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...
144 Ion chromatographic analysis of oil shale leachates1990-10-01ion chromatography; oil shale leachates; anionsIon 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...
145 Assessment of research needs for oil recovery from heavy-oil sources and tar sands1982-03The 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...
146 Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources: Quarterly progress report: January 2012 to March 20122012-04ICSE; 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...
147 Clean and secure energy from coal - Phase 3 statement of project objectives2011-07-01ICSE; 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; CNGThe 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...
148 General kinetic model of oil shale pyrolysis1984-12oil shale; oil shale pyrolysis; pyrolysisA 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...
149 Lands with wilderness characteristics, Resource Management Plan constraints, and land exchanges: Cross-jurisdictional management and impacts on unconventional fuel development in Utah's Uinta Basin2012-03Utah oil shale; oil sands; unconventional fuel resources; land exchanges; land rightsUtah 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...
150 Administration & FacultyA description of the administration and faculty members at the University of Utah.
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