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This paper describes the methods and equipment developed at the Bureau’s Experimental Oil-Shale mine near Rifle, Colo. for placing men in position to scale loone rock from the...

The purpose of this report is to describe the field tracer test and pumping test performed in July, 1983, at the Hanna, Wyoming, and coal gasification research area and to...

The analyses of Hot Gas Stream Cleanup (HGCU) ashes and descriptions of filter performance studied under this contract are designed to address problems with filter operation...

The lens distributional analysis code (LENDA) estimates the sand volume directly accessed and the gas drainage patterns of wells drilled in lenticular sand reservoirs. The gas...

In this article, we discuss technical aspects of oil shale mining and describe a few of the many processes available for extracting hydrocarbon fuels by thermal treatment of oil...

The synthetic fuel industry is perhaps the only industry ever to be subjected to a nationwide review of potential environmental consequences before the first commercial scale...

Increasing environmental awareness and regulations have placed new requirements on process design for advanced power systems, and increased the need for sophisticated simulation...

This report covers research activities for the second half of the second project year (October 6, 2001, through April 5, 2002). This work includes description and analysis of...

(a) Polar plot of shear wave travel time splittings for the VSP data at the Conoco site. (b) Polar plot of VSP polarizations (Queen and Rizer, 1990).

This report is part of a seven-volume series on the Hanna, Wyoming, underground coal gasification on field tests. Volume 1 is a summary of the project and each of Volumes 2...

The United States tar sand resource consists of an estimated 30 billion barrels of oil. Most of this resource is in six large deposits in Utah. A previous study of these areas...

Solid particles and liquid droplets suspended in the treated and untreated off-gas from the Rio Blanco Retort were sampled during a seven-day period beginning August 3, 1981....

This progress report covers research work performed at the University of Texas at Austin on evaluating chemical, mechanical, and environmental factors in underground...

"A lignite from Milam County, Tex., has been oxidized by air at temperatures from about 27° to 300· C. for varying lengths of time. The oxidized coal was carbonized at 500· C....

Project Final Report-DE-FC26-06NT43067-The mass of carbon held in sediments below the sea-floor is a significant element of the earth’s carbon cycle. The amount currently in...

In cooperation with the US Department of Energy`s Morgantown Energy Technology Center, under contract DE-AC21-93MC30247, a Westinghouse Electric led team is working on a...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) continues to actively pursue its goal of transferring to the petroleum industry critical information about technologies currently being...

"Shale oil and a fuel ,as have been produced by microwave heating oil shale in a standard microwave oven in conjunction with experimentation in development of an in situ...

This Publications List includes the documents prepared by the Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) staff as well as their contractors during fiscal year 1984. The...

Mass and absorption spectroscopy were used to characterize porphyrins extracted by a hydrogen bromide-acetic acid solution from an oil shale, a shale oil, and a petroleum. The...