Experiment plan Sandia oil shale Rock Fragmentation Research Program

Technical Report · Mon Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5874079

Parrish, R L

Sandia National Laboratories is engaged in a program to develop a prescriptive design capability for the in situ recovery of oil from shale. This will provide industry a firm basis for evaluating the technical and economic potential of a given process. Emphasis is being placed on the development of numerical models that, for given site characteristics (material properties, geological structure, etc.), would provide predictions of oil yield for a particular resource. The models include rock fragmentation models that would provide predictions of rubble bed characteristics; these rubble beds would then be evaluated with retort process models for predictions of oil yield. The Rock Fragmentation Research Program being conducted to develop the rock fragmentation models includes field experiments specifically designed to acquire quantitative diagnostic and response measurements for use in the model development. Two well-instrumented single blastwell cratering experiments were conducted in this program during 1983 at the DOE Anvil Points Mine. The Anvil Points Mine was closed in 1984; continuation of the experimental program will be at the Exxon Co., USA Colony Mine. This report describes the test plan for the continuation of the rock fragmentation experiments. A discussion of program objectives and testing philosophy is provided, followed by a description of the experiments thought necessary to accomplish the program objectives. A detailed design and instrumentation plan is provided for the first series of tests to be conducted. 38 refs., 13 figs., 6 tabs.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5874079
• Report Number(s): SAND-85-0177; ON: DE85010623
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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