Indirect heating pyrolysis of oil shale

Patent · Tue Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:863193

Reeves, Adam A ^[1]

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1. Grand Junction, CO

Hot, non-oxygenous gas at carefully controlled quantities and at predetermined depths in a bed of lump oil shale provides pyrolysis of the contained kerogen of the oil shale, and cool non-oxygenous gas is passed up through the bed to conserve the heat

• Research Organization: Development Engineering, Incorporated
• Assignee: Paraho Corporation (Grand Junction, CO)
• Patent Number(s): US 4116810
• Application Number: 05/689,505
• OSTI ID: 863193
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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conserve
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