Combustion heater for oil shale
Abstract
A combustion heater for oil shale heats particles of spent oil shale containing unburned char by burning the char. A delayed fall is produced by flowing the shale particles down through a stack of downwardly sloped overlapping baffles alternately extending from opposite sides of a vertical column. The delayed fall and flow reversal occurring in passing from each baffle to the next increase the residence time and increase the contact of the oil shale particles with combustion supporting gas flowed across the column to heat the shale to about 650 to 700/sup 0/C for use as a process heat source.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6982536
- Application Number:
- ON: DE84011299
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS; COMBUSTORS; DESIGN; SPENT SHALES; COMBUSTION; OIL SHALES; PROCESS HEAT; RETORTING; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY; ENERGY SOURCES; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; HEAT; MATERIALS; OXIDATION; THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; 040402* - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- Surface Methods; 040600 - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- Products & By-Products
Citation Formats
Mallon, R, Walton, O, Lewis, A E, and Braun, R. Combustion heater for oil shale. United States: N. p., 1983.
Web.
Mallon, R, Walton, O, Lewis, A E, & Braun, R. Combustion heater for oil shale. United States.
Mallon, R, Walton, O, Lewis, A E, and Braun, R. Wed .
"Combustion heater for oil shale". United States.
@article{osti_6982536,
title = {Combustion heater for oil shale},
author = {Mallon, R and Walton, O and Lewis, A E and Braun, R},
abstractNote = {A combustion heater for oil shale heats particles of spent oil shale containing unburned char by burning the char. A delayed fall is produced by flowing the shale particles down through a stack of downwardly sloped overlapping baffles alternately extending from opposite sides of a vertical column. The delayed fall and flow reversal occurring in passing from each baffle to the next increase the residence time and increase the contact of the oil shale particles with combustion supporting gas flowed across the column to heat the shale to about 650 to 700/sup 0/C for use as a process heat source.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1983},
month = {9}
}
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