Beneficiation-hydroretort processing of US oil shales, engineering study

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5585032· OSTI ID:5585032

Johnson, L R; Riley, R H

This report describes a beneficiation facility designed to process 1620 tons per day of run-of-mine Alabama oil shale containing 12.7 gallons of kerogen per ton of ore (based on Fischer Assay). The beneficiation facility will produce briquettes of oil shale concentrate containing 34.1 gallons of kerogen per ton (based on Fischer Assay). The beneficiation facility will produce briquettes of oil shale concentrate containing 34.1 gallons of kerogen per ton (based on Fischer Assay) suitable for feed to a hydroretort oil extraction facility of nominally 20,000 barrels per day capacity. The beneficiation plant design prepared includes the operations of crushing, grinding, flotation, thickening, filtering, drying, briquetting, conveying and tailings empoundment. A complete oil shale beneficiation plant is described including all anticipated ancillary facilities. For purposes of determining capital and operating costs, the beneficiation facility is assumed to be located on a generic site in the state of Alabama. The facility is described in terms of the individual unit operations with the capital costs being itemized in a similar manner. Additionally, the beneficiation facility estimated operating costs are presented to show operating costs per ton of concentrate produced, cost per barrel of oil contained in concentrate and beneficiation cost per barrel of oil extracted from concentrate by hydroretorting. All costs are presented in fourth quarter of 1988 dollars.

• Research Organization: Alabama Univ., University, AL (USA). School of Mines and Energy Development; Roberts and Schaefer Co., Salt Lake City, UT (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/FE
• DOE Contract Number: FG21-85LC11066
• OSTI ID: 5585032
• Report Number(s): DOE/LC/11066-2719-Vol.3; ON: DE89011686
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040402* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Surface Methods
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
BRIQUETTING
CAPITALIZED COST
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMMINUTION
COST
DECOMPOSITION
DESIGN
DIAGRAMS
DOCUMENT TYPES
DRYING
ENERGY SOURCES
ENGINEERING DRAWINGS
EQUIPMENT
FABRICATION
FILTRATION
FLOTATION
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GRINDING
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
KEROGEN
MACHINING
MATERIAL BALANCE
MATERIALS
MOLDING
OIL SHALE PROCESSING PLANTS
OIL SHALES
OPERATING COST
ORGANIC MATTER
PROGRESS REPORT
RECOMMENDATIONS
RETORTING
SEPARATION PROCESSES