The extraction of bitumen from western oil sands. Annual report, July 1991--July 1992

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10139030· OSTI ID:10139030

Oblad, A G; Bunger, J W; Dahlstrom, D A; Deo, M D; Hanson, F V; Miller, J D; Seader, J D

The University of Utah tar sand research and development program is concerned with research and development on Utah is extensive oil sands deposits. The program has been intended to develop a scientific and technological base required for eventual commercial recovery of the heavy oils from oil sands and processing these oils to produce synthetic crude oil and other products such as asphalt. The overall program is based on mining the oil sand, processing the mined sand to recover the heavy oils and upgrading them to products. Multiple deposits are being investigated since it is believed that a large scale (approximately 20,000 bbl/day) plant would require the use of resources from more than one deposit. The tasks or projects in the program are organized according to the following classification: Recovery technologies which includes thermal recovery methods, water extraction methods, and solvent extraction methods; upgrading and processing technologies which covers hydrotreating, hydrocracking, and hydropyrolysis; solvent extraction; production of specialty products; and environmental aspects of the production and processing technologies. These tasks are covered in this report.

• Research Organization: Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FC21-89MC26268
• OSTI ID: 10139030
• Report Number(s): DOE/MC/26268-3650; ON: DE94004071; BR: AC1515000/AC1515100; TRN: 94:007501
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Aug 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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