Synthetic Liquid Fuels Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for 1951 Part II.-Oil From Oil Shale
| Preface | ||||
| Introduction | ||||
| PART II |
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| Section
1 2849kb pdf |
Mining, Oil-Shale Experimental Mine, Rifle, Colo. | |||
| Oil-Shale resources | ||||
| Selective Mine | ||||
| Underground Quarry | ||||
| Section
2 1710kb pdf |
Mining research | |||
| Section
3 2113kb pdf |
Estimated cost for commercial mining | |||
| Processing, Oil-Shale Demonstration Plant, Rifle, Colo. | ||||
| Pilot-plant activities | ||||
| Gas-combustion process | ||||
| Description of pilot plant | ||||
| Section
4 1221kb pdf |
Control of mist formation | |||
| Evaluation run | ||||
| Gas-air mixer studies | ||||
| Oil-recovery studies | ||||
| Intermediate-size pilot plant | ||||
| Gas-flow process | ||||
| Miscellaneous studies | ||||
| Pressure-drop tests | ||||
| Sampling raw shale | ||||
| Refining program | ||||
| Section
5 2011kb pdf |
Crushing, conveying, and storage of oil shale | |||
| Demonstration retorting plant | ||||
| Demonstration shale-oil refinery | ||||
| Thermal operations | ||||
| Coking | ||||
| Recycle cracking | ||||
| Section
6 1839kb pdf |
Viscosity breaking | |||
| Reforming | ||||
| Treatment of products | ||||
| Gasoline | ||||
| Diesel fuel | ||||
| Byproduct studies | ||||
| Road materials | ||||
| Tar acids and tar bases | ||||
| Coke | ||||
| Future refining studies | ||||
| Cooperative agreements | ||||
| Industry-scale oil-shale project | ||||
| Section
7 1369kb pdf |
Case I - Oil-shale processing with thermal refining | |||
| Case II - Oil-shale processing with mild hydrogenation | ||||
| Cost estimate | ||||
| Section
8 1694kb pdf |
Plant service laboratory | |||
| Oil-shale assays | ||||
| Analyses of crude shale oil | ||||
| Development of methods | ||||
| Process studies | ||||
| Laboratory facilities | ||||
| Functions and facilities other than mining and processing | ||||
| Design, construction, and maintenance | ||||
| Health and safety | ||||
| Administration | ||||
| Section
9 1375kb pdf |
Research and Development, Petroleum and Oil-Shale Experiment Station, Laramie, Wyo. | |||
| Oil-shale retorting research | ||||
| Entrained-solids retort | ||||
| Products from high-temperature retorting | ||||
| Shale-oil refining research | ||||
| Properties of thermally cracked gasoline | ||||
| Hydrotreating of heavy naphtha | ||||
| Section
10 1930kb pdf |
Acid-treating shale-oil naphtha | |||
| Solvent extraction | ||||
| Catalytic cracking | ||||
| Hydrogenation | ||||
| Characteristics of asphaltic residuums from shale oil | ||||
| Oil-shale research and analysis | ||||
| Assays and miscellaneous analyses | ||||
| Section
11 2369kb pdf |
Characteristics of organic material in Colorado oil shale | |||
| Shale-oil research and analysis | ||||
| Oils from high-temperature retorting | ||||
| Primary N-T-U naphtha | ||||
| N-T-U gas-oil fraction | ||||
| Development of analytical methods | ||||
| Byproduct-utilization research | ||||
| Separation of paraffin and olefin waxes | ||||
| Tar acids | ||||
| Tar bases | ||||
| 225kb pdf | Appendix. Bibliography of papers and reports presented or published in 1951 | |||