Apparatus for treating oil-bearing shale

Patent · Tue Jun 27 04:00:00 EDT 1922

OSTI ID:5416190

Heimbucher, G A

The apparatus includes a combustion chamber in the lower end of a furnace, a plurality of retorts mounted within the furnace above the combustion chamber, and a wall having helical flues surrounding each of the retorts at its lower end portion. The walls are spaced from the outer wall of the furnace, segmental walls meeting at their ends and spaced from the outer wall of the furnace, segmental walls meeting at their ends and spaced from the outer wall of the furnace partially surrounding each of the retorts at the upper end portions. The space enclosed by the segmental walls forms a heating chamber connected by the helical flues with the combustion chamber, and a stack connected with the heating chamber.

• Assignee: TIC; EDB-78-030020
• Patent Number(s): US 1421228
• OSTI ID: 5416190
• 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 REACTORS
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
DESIGN
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
FURNACES
MINERAL OILS
OIL SHALES
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PRODUCTION
RETORTING
RETORTS
SHALE OIL
SYNTHETIC FUELS
SYNTHETIC PETROLEUM