Oil Shale TechnologyThis book focuses on the fundamental and engineering aspects of shale oil extraction, as well as the mathematical clarification of the complex transport mechanisms involved in oil shale pyrolysis. The influence of the chemical and physical environment on the enhancement of oil yield is explained, and ex situ and in situ technologies are reviewed and compared. The discussion on ex situ shale oil extraction includes both thermal and chemical extraction techniques such as retorting, solvent, and supercritical extraction. Parallels are drawn between the processes available for recovering and using other fossil fuel sources, such as coal and tar sands, and oil shale. In addition to covering the characteristics of oil shale, Oil Shale Technology summarizes the physical and chemical properties of shale oil obtained from various deposits around the world. The influence of the retorting process on the properties of the resulting oil shale is discussed, as are standardized techniques for determining these properties. Engineers, geologists, chemists, chemical engineers, and other researchers in the petroleum and chemical industries should consider this book an important reference resource. |
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Abundance Abundance activation energy analysis Australian Oil Shales bitumen boiling range distribution calcite carbon dioxide carbon dioxide retorting Chem chemical CO₂ coal Colorado shale compounds Condor distillation dolomite eastern U.S. effect Equation experimental Fischer assay fractions Fuel Sci gas chromatograph gas flow rate Green River formation Green River oil heating rate hydrocarbons isothermal kerogen Kinetics and Process M.S. thesis mass chromatogram mass transfer measured mechanism mesh n-alkanes N₂ nahcolite nitrogen nitrogen retorted North Carolina shale obtained Ohio shale oil shale char oil shale deposits oil shale kerogen oil shale pyrolysis oil shale retorting oil yield organic content organic matter petroleum porosity pressure Process Optimization pyrolysis Pyrolysis Kinetics raw shale reactor Reprinted from Polasky residue retorting process Rundle shale oil shale particle shale samples solid solvent spent shale Stuart shale supercritical extraction sweep gas flow Table techniques temperature thermal conductivity TIC of DATA U.S. shales University of Akron
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Handbook of Alternative Fuel Technologies Sunggyu Lee,James G. Speight,Sudarshan K. Loyalka Limited preview - 2007 |
Handbook of Alternative Fuel Technologies Sunggyu Lee,James G. Speight,Sudarshan K. Loyalka Limited preview - 2007 |