Hydrocarbon fuels from oil shale
Abstract
A new process based on controlled countercurrent heating of oil shale in the presence of hydrogen at moderate pressure levels is described for producing substitute natural gas and/or middle distillate type oils from oil shale. Before testing in large-scale experimental equipment, extensive testing was conducted in laboratory thermobalance to determine the effects of primary process variables on the rate and ultimate extent of kerogen removal measured as organic carbon removal. Moving-bed hydrogasification test were then performed in a 10-cm diam bench-scale reactor to obtain results in large-scale equipment. Organic carbon recoveries as high as 95% were obtained at shale flow rates of up to 57 kg/hr. Temperature is found to be the most significant operating variable in the range of shale space velocities studied.
- Publication:
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11th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976iece.conf..325S
- Keywords:
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- Beds (Process Engineering);
- Energy Technology;
- Hydrocarbon Fuel Production;
- Shale Oil;
- Chemical Reactors;
- Clean Energy;
- Gasification;
- Hydrogenation;
- Synthane;
- Energy Production and Conversion