Synthetic fuels from US oil shales: a technical and economic verification of the HYTORT process. Quarterly report, October 1-December 31, 1980

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5539215

The objective of this program is to fully demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of the HYTORT process concept as it applies to both Eocene and Devonian shales. Achievement of this objective will significantly widen the nation's synthetic fuels resource base by adding a new resource - Devonian shale - to the list of possible feedstocks for a synthetic fuels industry. It will also establish a high-efficiency alternative to conventional retorting of Western oil shales. Research at the Institute of Gas Technology (IGT) has led to the development of the HYTORT process concept, which can be applied to the resources of Devonian shales of the Eastern United States as well as to Western shales, to produce oil or combustible gas at costs competitive with or less than those for retorting of Colorado shales. The HYTORT process concept has been successfully scaled up through small-scale laboratory equipment, a bench-scale unit capable of processing 100 pounds of shale per hour, and a Process Development Unit (PDU) with a shale capacity of 1 ton/hr. In addition, preliminary process design and economic analysis work shows that the HYTORT process exhibits attractive efficiency and economics.

• Research Organization: Institute of Gas Technology, Chicago, IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC20-79ET14102
• OSTI ID: 5539215
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/14102-3; ON: DE82011288
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040402* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Surface Methods
040403 -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Refining
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
BLACK SHALES
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CENOZOIC ERA
CHATTANOOGA FORMATION
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CHEMICAL REACTION YIELD
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DATA
DECOMPOSITION
DEVONIAN PERIOD
ECONOMICS
ENERGY SOURCES
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS
HYTORT PROCESS
INFORMATION
KINETICS
MATERIAL BALANCE
MATERIALS
MINERAL OILS
NUMERICAL DATA
OIL SHALES
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PALEOZOIC ERA
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT UNITS
PROCESSING
REFINING
RETORTING
SHALE OIL
SPENT SHALES
SYNTHETIC FUELS
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
TERTIARY PERIOD
YIELDS