United States Bureau of Mines' Oil Shale Experiment Station
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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]
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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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combustion area of the indirectly fired benches – previously clinkering was an arduous and time-consuming process that used large amounts of retort house...
non-condensable gas is recycled and used to carry heat up the retort. In the lower part of the retort, air is injected for the combustion which heats the...
endothermic gas generators: Heating chamber for supplying heat by electric heating elements of combustion, Vertical cylindrical retorts, Tiny, porous...
hydrogen gas. Water gas has a lower heat of combustion than coal gas, so the calorific value was often boosted by passing the gas through a heated retort, into...
Oil shale gas (also: retortgas or retortinggas) is a synthetic non-condensable gas mixture (syngas) produced by oil shale thermal processing (pyrolysis)...
known variously as manufactured gas, syngas, Dowson gas, and producer gas. These gases are made by partial combustion of a wide variety of feedstocks...
technologies resulting the Karrick process. The retort used for the Karrick process based on the Nevada–Texas–Utah Retort, used for the shale oil extraction...
process is classified as an internal combustion technology but also includes external gas heating. It uses a vertical cylindrical type shaft retort,...
The Alberta Taciuk process (ATP; known also as the AOSTRA Taciuk process) is an above-ground dry thermal retorting technology for extracting oil from...
company operates two retorts which process 8,500 tons of oil shale daily. The Petrosix 11 metres (36 ft) vertical shaft retort is the world's largest...
Galoter process has high thermal and technological efficiency, and high oil recovery ratio. Oil yield reaches 85–90% of Fischer Assay and retortgas yield...
molecule. Blau gas contains about 50% olefins (alkenes), 37% methane and other alkanes, 6% hydrogen, while the rest is air. The heat of combustion is 12,318...
New Jersey Zinc continuous vertical-retortprocess, and the Belgian-type horizontal retortprocess. This process was developed by the St. Joseph Mineral...
for oil shale processing also in Slantsy, Russia. The Kiviter process is classified as an internal combustion technology. The Kiviter retort is a vertical...
SF6 as cover gas to prevent oxidation and combustion of exposed surfaces of magnesium, which is at STP highly combustible. The SF6 cover gas had been in...
crude oil. The process heats oil shale in a sealed horizontal segmented vessel (retort) causing its decomposition into shale oil, oil shale gas and spent residue...
a gascombustionretort developed by the United States Bureau of Mines and the earlier Nevada–Texas–Utah Retort. In the late 1940s, these retorts were...
vertical retort where heating causes decomposition of oil shale into shale oil, oil shale gas and spent residue. The particularity of this process is that...
Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon...
The combustion zone moves downward as an oxygen gas provided, similar to the process developed by the Occidental Petroleum. The heat causes retorting process...
reducing gases is called a "reformer". In the Midrex process, it consists of tubes heated by the combustion of a portion (around a third) of the gas from...
produced by combustion of spent oil shale in the separate combustor. In this process, crushed oil shale is fed into the top of the retort where it is...
1961. Burgess H. Jennings. Internal Combustion Engines Analysis and Practice, 1944. A. Meyer. The CombustionGas Turbine. Mechanical Engineering, Vol...
naturally occurring petroleum, natural gas and coal, or their hydrocarbon derivatives and purified forms. Combustion of hydrocarbons is the main source of...
is transferred by hot gases produced by combustion of part of the produced char. A modification of this process, the COGAS Process, involves the addition...
Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium...
structures of pyranoses and furanoses. The process of pyrolysis can be conducted in a distillation apparatus (retort) to form the volatile products for collection...