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Appendix F: Retorting Technologies for Oil Shale
Pages 183-184

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... In the Union B process the shale is pumped upward and the gas flows downward; in the Petrosix process the shale moves downward and the gas flows upward. Fuel from an external source is normally supplied to operate the heater.
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... In the Lawrence Liverm ore National Laboratory (LLNL) , hot solids process mixing of recycled hot shale with raw shale occurs in a few tens of seconds in a fluidized bed.
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Key Terms

  • hot solid
  • hot burned
  • raw shale
  • shale particles
  • burned shale

  • gas flows
  • lift pipe
  • fluidized bed
  • retorting processes
  • lurgi process

  • process hot
  • hot shale
  • complete pyrolysis
  • hot ceramic
  • retorted shale

  • fluid bed
  • ore national
  • air flowing
  • process raw
  • flows upward

  • pipe provides
  • petrosix retorts
  • dilute fluid
  • produce hot
  • surge bin

  • hydrocarbon gas
  • cascading burner
  • chevron process
  • petrosix process
  • rapidly mixed


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