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Synthetic Liquid Fuels Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for 1951 Part II.-Oil From Oil Shale

Cover Page

Contents

Preface
Introduction

PART II

Section 1
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Mining, Oil-Shale Experimental Mine, Rifle, Colo.
Oil-Shale resources
Selective Mine
Underground Quarry
Section 2
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Mining research
Section 3
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Estimated cost for commercial mining
Processing, Oil-Shale Demonstration Plant, Rifle, Colo.
Pilot-plant activities
Gas-combustion process
Description of pilot plant
Section 4
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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
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Crushing, conveying, and storage of oil shale
Demonstration retorting plant
Demonstration shale-oil refinery
Thermal operations
Coking
Recycle cracking
Section 6
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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
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Case I - Oil-shale processing with thermal refining
Case II - Oil-shale processing with mild hydrogenation
Cost estimate
Section 8
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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
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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
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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
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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