Process and apparatus for the separation of hydrocarbons from petroleum bearing materials

Patent · Tue Jul 28 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6103875

Havlik, J J

This invention relates to a method and apparatus for the separation of bitumen crude petroleum from oil bearing solid materials and the collection of all the vapors produced, as multiple fractionated hydrocarbons. In its simplest form, the apparatus consists essentially of a means for breaking up the materials into a corresponding particulate; a destructive distillation chamber, a first thermal cracking zone formed by a pair of spaced apart plates consisting of an upper perforate electrically heatable plate and a imperforate electrically heatable plate, both plates being non-rotatable, a movable unidirectional transporter mounted between the plates with a clearance fit, said transporter having a plurality of adjacent material holding compartments; a mechanism for depositing substantially equal amounts of material from the storage bin successively into each compartment; drive means for actuating the mechanism and the transporter to move the materials through the chamber; means for controlling the temperature of the plates to bring about the destructive distillation of the bitumen crude petroleum, vaporizing means of maintaining the bitumen crude petroleum in vapor form in the chamber and then collecting the various hydrocarbons in condensing distillation units.

• Assignee: IFI; EDB-82-000772
• Patent Number(s): US 4280892
• OSTI ID: 6103875
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040402* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Surface Methods
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400105 -- Separation Procedures
BITUMENS
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION
DISTILLATION
ENERGY SOURCES
EQUIPMENT
FOSSIL FUELS
FRACTIONATION
FUELS
HYDROCARBONS
MATERIALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM
PLATES
PYROLYSIS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
TAR
THERMAL CRACKING
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES