Economic comparison of five process concepts for using eastern oil shale

Technical Report · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:6697190

Parkinson, W J; Phillips, T T; Barnes, J W

Process designs were completed and economic analyses performed for five processes that recover energy from eastern oil shale. The HYTORT and Paraho combination-heated processes were designed specifically to recover oil from eastern shale. The TOSCO II and Paraho direct-heated processes were designed to recover oil from western shales, but were applied to eastern shales for this study. The fifth process used an electric power plant combustion process that produced electricity by burning eastern oil shale. The study was based on a Kentucky Sunbury shale with a Fischer assay of 9.2 gal of oil per ton. The product oil from the four processes that produced oil has hydrotreated to reduce the nitrogen content to 500 ppM. The estimated selling prices for the oil (or electricity) from these processes are as follows: HYTORT, $48/bbl; Paraho combination heated, $70/bbl; TOSCO II, $75/bbl; Paraho direct heated, $106/bbl; and the electric power plant combustion process, $107/bbl ($0.0607 kWh).

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6697190
• Report Number(s): LA-10106-MS; ON: DE84015981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040402 -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Surface Methods
040800* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Economics
Industrial
& Business Aspects
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
BLACK SHALES
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHATTANOOGA FORMATION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
EXPLOITATION
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS
HYTORT PROCESS
MATERIALS
MINERAL OILS
OIL SHALES
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDATION
PARAHO PROCESS
POWER GENERATION
PRICES
SHALE OIL
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
TOSCO PROCESS