Pacific Project. Executive summary: retort and related facilities design. Task 8. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5399332

Superior Oil Company, as an owner of significant oil shale and multi-mineral properties, commenced work on development of processes to extract oil and other minerals from shale (marlstone) in the early 1970s. Processes for oil (retorting), Nahcolite (mechanical and electro-mechanical processes), and Dawsonite (leaching and crystallization processes for alumina and sodium bicarbonate) were developed and demonstrated in continuous pilot plant testing. However, this document includes the retorting process development only. Superior's retorting process development effort focused on adaptation of the circular grate hardware for oil shale retorting. From February 1981 through July 1982, Davy McKee, a design and construction firm with considerable experience in circular grate equipment, performed design engineering work under contract to Superior for a Superior circular grate oil shale retort and its related facilities of oil recovery and power generation. Superior participated with the Department of Energy in a cost sharing cooperative agreement to fund this 18-month design effort. During this design phase, a detailed design was completed on the circular grate retort machine, the machine support structure, and the discharge conveyor system. Definitive design was completed for related facilities within the retort battery limits e.g., oil recovery and for power generation. Project documents were compiled into four proprietary volumes of project Data Books as follows: Volume I - General Conditions and Engineering Standards (Standards and Specifications); Volume IIA - Project Definition (Drawings); Volume IIB - Project Definition (Tradeoff Studies and Engineering Requisitions i.e., Major Component of Purchase Documents); and Volume III - Cost Estimates and Schedules.

• Research Organization: Superior Oil Co., Englewood, CO (USA). Oil Shale Div.
• DOE Contract Number: FC03-80SF10852
• OSTI ID: 5399332
• Report Number(s): DOE/SF/10852-2136; ON: DE86014324
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040402* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Surface Methods
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMICAL REACTORS
DECOMPOSITION
DESIGN
DIAGRAMS
DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT
ENERGY SOURCES
ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING DRAWINGS
EQUIPMENT
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
MATERIALS
OIL SHALES
RETORTING
RETORTS