Synthetic fuels from US oil shales: a technical and economic verification of the HYTORT process. Final report (incorporates fourth quarterly report), January 1-March 31, 1981

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6616465· OSTI ID:6616465

The objective is to fully demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of the HYTORT process as it applies to both Eocene and Devonian shales. Achievement of this objective will 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. Progress reports are presentef for the following five tasks of the HYTORT process development work: laboratory program; bench-scale program; process development unit tests; process environmental assessment; and process design and economics. 48 figures, 37 tables.

• Research Organization: Institute of Gas Technology, Chicago, IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC20-79ET14102
• OSTI ID: 6616465
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/14102-4; ON: DE83005440
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
015000 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Economic
Industrial
& Business Aspects
04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040402* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Surface Methods
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
BLACK SHALES
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHATTANOOGA FORMATION
CHEMICAL REACTION YIELD
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DATA
DECOMPOSITION
DEVONIAN PERIOD
DIAGRAMS
ECONOMICS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FLOWSHEETS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS
HYTORT PROCESS
INFORMATION
MATERIALS
MINERAL OILS
NUMERICAL DATA
OIL SHALES
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PALEOZOIC ERA
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT UNITS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
RETORTING
SHALE OIL
YIELDS