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Gas combustion retort process information


Gas Combustion Retort
Process typechemical
Industrial sector(s)chemical industry, oil industry
Feedstockoil shale
Product(s)shale oil
Main facilitiesUnited States Bureau of Mines' Oil Shale Experiment Station
Developer(s)United States Bureau of Mines

The gas combustion retort process (also referred as gas-combustion retorting process) was an above-ground retorting technology for shale oil extraction. It was a predecessor of the Paraho and Petrosix processes, and modern directly heated oil shale retorting technologies in general.[1]

  1. ^ United States Office of Technology Assessment (June 1980). An Assessment of Oil Shale Technologies (PDF). DIANE Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-4289-2463-5. NTIS order #PB80-210115. Retrieved 2009-06-30.

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