Oil shale, coal, and the energy crisis
Journal Article
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· Chem. Eng. Progr., v. 69, no. 5, pp. 94-95
OSTI ID:4339492
Oil shale and coal are domestic reserves that are large enough to make up the anticipated energy deficit between now and the year 2000. Oil shale containing nahcolite and dawsonite can be processed in an integrated operation into products for clean utility fuel and nahcolite can be used in a dry scrubbing process to reduce SO/sub x/, and possibly NO/sub x/, stack emission to lawful limits. Dawsonite can be processed into sodium compounds to be used with nahcolite and into aluminum compounds that can be used in the treatment of waste water. The integrated process is described. The nahcolite can be used behind an electrostatic precipitator as a granular filter that can absorb the SO/sub x/ as well as trap particulates that pass through the precipitator. This would allow coal of any sulfur content to be burned as clean energy and potentially free for use. A plant producing 50,000 bbl/day of oil could be on stream Gy 1981. It is estimated that these plants could eliminate the total energy deficit without imports by 1988. (MCW)
- Research Organization:
- Superior Oil Co., Houston, TX
- NSA Number:
- NSA-29-023810
- OSTI ID:
- 4339492
- Journal Information:
- Chem. Eng. Progr., v. 69, no. 5, pp. 94-95, Journal Name: Chem. Eng. Progr., v. 69, no. 5, pp. 94-95; ISSN CEPRA
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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