Oil shale, tar sands, and related materials : based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Fuel Chemistry at the second Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 25-29, 1980 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: American Chemical Society. Division of Fuel Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Meeting, Chemical Congress of the North American Continent
Other Authors: Stauffer, H. C., 1922-
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society, 1981.
Series:ACS symposium series ; 163.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Department of Energy's oil shale R, D, and D program : an overview / Arthur M. Hartstein and Brian M. Harney
  • Computer simulation of explosive fracture of oil shale / Thomas F. Adams
  • Fracturing of oil shale by treatment with liquid sulfur dioxide / D.F. Burow and R.K. Sharma
  • Chemistry of shale oil cracking / A.K. Burnham
  • Hydrogen sulfide evolution from Colorado oil shale / A.K. Burnham, N. Kirkman Bey, and G.J. Koskinas
  • A possible mechanism of alkene/alkane production / A.K. Burnham and R.L. Ward
  • Oil shale retorting kinetics / P.H. Wallman, P.W. Tamm, and B.G. Spars
  • Kinetics of oil shale char gasification / W.J. Thomson, M.A. Gerber, M.A. Hatter, and D.G. Oakes
  • A comparison of asphaltenes from naturally occurring shale bitumen and retorted shale oils : the influence of temperature on asphaltene structure / Feng Fang Shue and Teh Fu Yen
  • Beneficiation of Green River oil shale by density methods / Olaf A. Larson, C.W. Schultz, and Ellery L. Michaels
  • Beneficiation of Green River oil shale by pelletization / J. Reisberg
  • Shell pellet heat exchange retorting : the SPHER energy-efficient process for retorting oil shale / J.E. Gwyn, S.C. Roberts, D.E. Hardesty, G.L. Johnson, and G.P. Hinds, Jr.
  • Retorted oil shale disposal research / R.N. Heistand
  • An investigation into the potential economics of large-scale shale oil production / Ben C. Ball, Jr.
  • Commercial-scale refining of Paraho crude shale oil into military specification fuels / N.J. Wasilk and E.T. Robinson
  • Relation between fuel properties and chemical composition : chemical characterization of U.S. Navy shale-II fuels / Jeffrey Solash, Robert N. Hazlett, Jack C. Burnett, Erna Beal, and James M. Hall
  • Relation between fuel properties and chemical composition : physical properties of U.S. Navy shale-II fuels / W.A. Affens, J.M. Hall, E. Beal, R.N. Hazlett, J.T. Leonard, C.J. Nowack, and G. Speck
  • Relation between fuel properties and chemical composition : stability of oil shale-derived jet fuel / C.J. Nowack, R.J. Delfosse, G. Speck, J. Solash, and R.N. Hazlett
  • Pyrolysis of shale oil residual fractions / Robert N. Hazlett, Erna Beal, Thomas Vetter, Richard Sonntag, and William Moniz
  • Synfuel stability : degradation mechanisms and actual findings / Dennis W. Brinkman, John N. Bowden, John Frankenfeld, and Bill Taylor
  • The chemistry of shale oil and its refined products / Donald M. Fenton, Harvey Hennig, and Ryden L. Richardson
  • The reactivity of Cold Lake asphaltenes / R.C. Schucker and C.F. Keweshan
  • Influence of thermal processing on the properties of Cold Lake asphaltenes : the effect of distillation / Kenneth A. Gould and Martin L. Gorbaty
  • Thermal recovery of oil from tar sands by an energy-efficient process / K.M. Jayakar, J.D. Seader, A.G. Oblad, and K.C. Hanks
  • Hydropyrolysis : the potential for primary upgrading of tar sand bitumen / J.W. Bunger, D.E. Cogswell, R.E. Wood, and A.G. Oblad.