Recovery of oil from Utah's Tar Sands. Final report, December 1, 1979-March 31, 1983
Work was focused in the following main areas: water assisted extraction of bitumens, quality and disposal of tailings, and raw bitumen clean-up; thermal recovery of bitumens in a fluidized-bed characterization of bitumen obtained and coked sand combustion; recovery of heat from hot burned sand; upgrading of raw bitumens from water extraction and thermally produced bitumens including in situ recovered material. This report covers in particular the following: investigation of the effect of bitumen viscosity in hot water extraction of tar sands and bitumen concentrate cleaning and a study of the use of an air sparged hydroclone in bitumen recovery; thermal recovery of bitumen from two additional Utah tar sands: Tar Sand Triangle and Whiterocks; upgrading of tar sand bitumens by the processing sequences; coking followed by hydrotreating of product and hydropyrolysis followed by hydrotreating of product; experimental and theoretical studies of a fluidized-bed pyrolysis reactor with a coked sand combination reactor with transfer of heat from the combustor to the pyrolysis reactor by means of potassium filled heat pipe.
- Research Organization:
- Utah Univ., Salt Lake City (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AS20-80LC10332
- OSTI ID:
- 6909041
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/LC/10332-1582; ON: DE84009263
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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BITUMENS
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CARBONIZATION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COKING
CONCENTRATORS
CYCLONE SEPARATORS
DECOMPOSITION
ENERGY SOURCES
EQUIPMENT
FEDERAL REGION VIII
FLUID INJECTION PROCESSES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HEAT SOURCES
HOT-WATER PROCESSES
HYDROGENATION
INERTIAL SEPARATORS
MATERIALS
NORTH AMERICA
OIL SANDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
PROCESSING
PYROLYSIS
REFINING
SEPARATION EQUIPMENT
SYNTHETIC FUELS
SYNTHETIC PETROLEUM
TAR
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
USA
UTAH
VISCOSITY