Processing Use, and Characterization of Shale Oil Products

Processing use, and characterization of shale oil products

Oil shale is a potential source of oil that will supplement conventional sources for oil as our needs for fossil fuels begin to exceed our supplies. The resource may be mined and processed on the surface or it may be processed in situ. An overview of the potential technologies and environmental issues is presented.

Chemicals and Other Products from Shale Oil

Value Added Products from Oil Shale

Oil shale is more than an energy source. It is also a source for various valuable materials. These materials include pyridine, carbonate minerals, alumina, ammonium sulfate, phosphate, sulfur, uranium, vanadium, and zinc, to name a few, from which numerous value-added products can be manufactured. For example, catalysts are made from vanadium and zinc, while alumina is a widely used material fo...

Characterization of Oil Shale by Ftir Spectroscopy

The o p t i c a l advantages and d a t a handl ing c a p a b i l i t i e s of F o u r i e r transform inf r a r e d (FT-IR) ins t ruments have l e d t o a resurgence of t h e use of i n f r a r e d spec t roscopy f o r t h e c h a r a c t e r i z a t i o n of energy r e l a t e d m a t e r i a l s . Most of t h e work t h a t has so f a r been r e p o r t e d has involved t h e c h a r a c t e ...

Use of Ames test in evaluation of shale oil fractions.

Conditions that affect the sensitivity of the Ames assay of complex hydrocarbon mixtures derived from shale oil were studied. Two fractions, one enriched in polynuclear aromatic compounds (PNA fraction), and a second fraction enriched in aromatic and heterocyclic amines (basic fraction), were selected for most of this work because of their comparatively high mutagenicity (i.e., compared with ra...