High efficiency shale oil recovery
Abstract
The overall project objective is to demonstrate the high efficiency of the Adams Counter-Current shale oil recovery process. The efficiency will first be demonstrated on a small scale, in the current phase, after which the demonstration will be extended to the operation of a small pilot plant. Thus the immediate project objective is to obtain data on oil shale retorting operations in a small batch rotary kiln that will be representative of operations in the proposed continuous process pilot plant. Although an oil shale batch sample is sealed in the batch kiln from the start until the end of the run, the process conditions for the batch are the same as the conditions that an element of oil shale would encounter in a continuous process kiln. Similar chemical and physical conditions (heating, mixing, pyrolysis, oxidation) exist in both systems.The two most important data objectives in this phase of the project are to demonstrate (1) that the heat recovery projected for this project is reasonable and (2) that an oil shale kiln will run well and not plug up due to sticking and agglomeration. The following was completed this quarter. (1) Twelve pyrolysis runs were made on five different oil shales.more »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Recovery Technology, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6694674
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/CE/15533-T5
ON: DE93012268
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG01-92CE15533
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS; KILNS; MODIFICATIONS; YIELDS; OIL SHALES; RETORTING; SHALE OIL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEAT TRANSFER; PLUGGING; PROGRESS REPORT; PYROLYSIS; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DATA; DECOMPOSITION; DOCUMENT TYPES; ENERGY SOURCES; ENERGY TRANSFER; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; INFORMATION; MATERIALS; MINERAL OILS; NUMERICAL DATA; OILS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SHALES; THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; 040402* - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- Surface Methods
Citation Formats
Adams, D C. High efficiency shale oil recovery. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web. doi:10.2172/6694674.
Adams, D C. High efficiency shale oil recovery. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6694674
Adams, D C. 1993.
"High efficiency shale oil recovery". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6694674. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6694674.
@article{osti_6694674,
title = {High efficiency shale oil recovery},
author = {Adams, D C},
abstractNote = {The overall project objective is to demonstrate the high efficiency of the Adams Counter-Current shale oil recovery process. The efficiency will first be demonstrated on a small scale, in the current phase, after which the demonstration will be extended to the operation of a small pilot plant. Thus the immediate project objective is to obtain data on oil shale retorting operations in a small batch rotary kiln that will be representative of operations in the proposed continuous process pilot plant. Although an oil shale batch sample is sealed in the batch kiln from the start until the end of the run, the process conditions for the batch are the same as the conditions that an element of oil shale would encounter in a continuous process kiln. Similar chemical and physical conditions (heating, mixing, pyrolysis, oxidation) exist in both systems.The two most important data objectives in this phase of the project are to demonstrate (1) that the heat recovery projected for this project is reasonable and (2) that an oil shale kiln will run well and not plug up due to sticking and agglomeration. The following was completed this quarter. (1) Twelve pyrolysis runs were made on five different oil shales. All of the runs exhibited a complete absence of any plugging, tendency. Heat transfer for Green River oil shale in the rotary kiln was 84.6 Btu/hr/ft[sup 2]/[degrees]F, and this will provide for ample heat exchange in the Adams kiln. (2) One retorted residue sample was oxidized at 1000[degrees]F. Preliminary indications are that the ash of this run appears to have been completely oxidized. (3) Further minor equipment repairs and improvements were required during the course of the several runs.},
doi = {10.2172/6694674},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6694674},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Thu Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
}