Horizontal fluid bed retorting process

Patent · Tue Aug 07 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:6320002

Thacker, M B

A horizontal fluid bed retorting process is provided for preheating, retorting, combusting, and recovering heat from oil shale and other solid hydrocarbon-containing material. In the process, the combustor and heat recovery chambers share a common heat-conductive metal wall with and are positioned in side-by-side relationship to the cellular preheating and retorting chambers. The heat of combustion in the combustor and the heat recovered from the combusted shale or other material in the heat recovery chamber are transferred by conduction into the retorting and preheating chambers, respectively, to provide the process heat requirements for preheating and retorting the oil shale or other feed. The oil shale or other feed is fluidly moved in a generally horizontal S-shaped flow pattern through the preheating and retorting chambers in countercurrent flow to the combusted material in the combustor and heat recovery chambers.

• Assignee: Standard Oil Company
• Patent Number(s): US 4464247
• OSTI ID: 6320002
• 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 REACTIONS
CHEMICAL REACTORS
COMBUSTION
CONTROL
DECOMPOSITION
DESIGN
DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT
ENERGY RECOVERY
ENERGY SOURCES
EQUIPMENT
FLUIDIZED BED
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HEAT RECOVERY
HEAT RECOVERY EQUIPMENT
HEATING
MATERIALS
OIL SHALES
OXIDATION
PROCESS CONTROL
RECOVERY
RETORTING
RETORTS
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES