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High efficiency shale oil recovery. Final report, January 1, 1992--June 30, 1993 [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1993.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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25 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:
United States. Department of Energy and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary:
The Adams Counter-current shale oil recovery process is an improved retorting technology enabling highly efficient oil recovery from oil shale. The high efficiency results primarily from the following facts: it (1) recovers the ash heat to preheat the feed ore; (2) burns and uses the coke energy and (3) operates without using hot ash recycling as a heat carrier. This latter feature is doubly important, contributing to high oil yield and to the generation of highly reactive coke which can be burned below 1000°F, avoiding the endothermal calcination of the mineral carbonates and helping to clean the ash of contaminants. This project demonstrates that oil shale can be retorted under the specified conditions and achieve the objectives of very high efficiency. The project accomplished the following: 51 quartz sand rotary kiln runs provided significant engineering data. A heat transfer value of 107 Btu/hr/ft²/°F was obtained at optimum RPM; eight oil shale samples were obtained and preliminary shakedown runs were made. Five of the samples were selected for kiln processing and twelve pyrolysis runs were made on the five different oil shales;average off recovery was 109% of Fisher Assay; retorted residue from all five samples was oxidized at approximately 1000°F. The ash from these runs was oxidized to varying extents, depending on the oil shale and oxidizing temperatures. While 1000°F is adequately hot to provide process heat from coke combustion for these ores, some Eastern oil shales, without mineral carbonates, may be oxidized at higher temperatures, perhaps 100--300 degrees hotter, to obtain a more complete oxidation and utilization of the coke.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:doe/ce/15533--t6
doe/ce/15533--t6
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Published through SciTech Connect.
09/29/1993.
"doe/ce/15533--t6"
"DE94000451"
Adams, D.C.
Energy Recovery Technology, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Type of Report and Period Covered Note:
Final; 01/01/1992 - 12/31/1993
Funding Information:
FG01-92CE15533
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