16th oil shale symposium proceedings: table of contents

CONTENTS

Page

Foreword vii

Some Geological

Considerations

for the Economic Evaluation of Canadian Oil Shale Deposits

G.

_Macauley,

T.G.

_Powell,

and L.R. Snowdon 1

The

Devonian-Mississippian

Oil Shale Resource of the Eastern United States

R. D. Matthews 14

Fracture

_History

oftheNorthern Piceance Creek

Basin,

Northwestern Colorado

E.R. Verbeek and M.A. Grout 26

Using

a Multiple

_Log

Approach to Evaluate Green River Oil Shale in the Piceance Creek Basin

Rob Habiger and R.H. Robinson 45

Field Studies of Joints: Insufficiencies and

Solutions,

with Examples from the Piceance Creek

Basin,

Colorado

M.A. Grout and E.R. Verbeek 68

A Standard Technique for

Handling, Marking,

and

Logging

Oil Shale Core

J. A.

_Hartley

and T.N. Beard 81

Microcrystalline Nahcolite on the 1840

Level,

Horse Draw

Mine,

Piceance Creek

Basin,

Colorado

R.D. Cole and G.J. Daub 99

Mineralogy

and

_Geochemistry

of Green River Formation Oil Shales, C-A Tract, Colorado

W.S. Meddaugh and C.A. Salotti 113

Mineralogy

of the

_Mahogany

Marker Tuff of the Green River

Formation,

Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado

G.M. Mason 124

Chemical Aspects of Eastern Oil Shale Retorting: Analysis of a Core

A.M. Rubel, D.W. _Koppenaal, D.N. Taulbee, and T.L. Robl 132

Distribution and Origin of Sulfur in Colorado Oil Shale

J.R. Dyni 144

Variations in Sulfur Mineralization in the Parachute Creek Member of Green River

Formation,

Colorado and Utah

D.L. Boyer and R.D. Cole 160

Stratigraphic Variation of Sulfur Isotopes in Colorado Corehole Number 1

J.W. Smith and N.B.

_Young

176

Laboratory Study

of the Effects of Combustion Gases on

Retorting

of Green River Oil Shale with Superheated Steam

A.L. Tyler, H.R. Jacobs, and E.A. Bullen 189

Median Residence and Dispersion Times for Fluidization of Crushed Oil Shale

D.E. Christiansen and R.G. Mallon 199

Attrition of Spent Oil Shales

During

Pneumatic

Conveying

and Cyclone

Separating

J. F.

_Carley

207

Material Balance Technique for Analysis of In Situ Oil Shale

_Retorting

B.H. Major and P.J. Hommert 228

Page

Heat Generation

_During

Wet Oxidation of Oil Shale Wastewaters

by

the Vertical Tube Reactor Process

J.E. Barnes and CB. Cassetti 242

Results of the

Processing

of a Western Oil Shale on the

Allis-Chalmers

Roller Grate Retort System

B.P.

_Faulkner,

M.H.

Weinecke,

R.F. Cnare 255

Results from the Simultaneous

_Processing

of Modified In Situ Retorts 7 & 8

A.L. Stevens and R.L. Zahradnik 267

Analysis of Occidental Vertical Modified In Situ Retorts 7 and 8

T.C. Bickel 281

Improving

Flow

_Uniformity

in Vertical Modified In Situ Oil Shale Retorts

T. E. Ricketts 296

Application of the High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor to Oil Shale

_Recovery

D.C.

Wadekamper,

J.R. Impellezzeri, N.T. Arcilla and I.N. Taylor 315

High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor

_(HTGR)

Application for Shale Oil

_Recovery

R.N. Quade and R. Rao 325

Sandia/Geokinetics Retort 23: Comparison of Real-Time Analyses with Post-Burn

_Coring

Results

C.E. Tyner, D.W. Cook, and E.G. Costomiris 335

Study

of Moroccan Oil Shale Thermal Decomposition Kinetics

Omar Bekri, Hachem Baba-Habib,

Chang

Yul

Cha,

and M.C. Edelman 345

Economics Derived from Detailed and Definitive Design of Superior's Circular Grate Retort for an 18,000 BPD Oil Shale Demonstration Plant

D.F. Li1

ley

and J.W. Fishback 365

Retorting Kentucky

Oil Shales. Yield Optimization at Moderate and Rapid

Heating

Rates

Thomas Coburn, Marshall Margolis, and Ronald

Gariepy

373

Hydroprocessing

of Stuart

_(Australian)

Oil Shale

R.M. Baldwin, W.L. Frank, G.L. Baughman, and C.S. Minden 388

Size Reduction of Green River Shale

C.A. Salotti and R.S. Datta 394

Coarse Beneficiation of Green River Oil Shale

R.S. Datta and C.A. Salotti 413

Beneficiation of U.S. Oil Shales

by

Froth Flotation

G.N. Krishnan, E.P. Farley, and R.G.

_Murray

426

An

_Engineering

Model for Prediction of In Situ Oil Shale Retort

_Blasting

J.T. Schamaun 437

Vertical Pneumatic

_Conveying

of Mixed-Particle-Sized Oil Shale

Roland

_Quong

451

Fluidized Bed Combustion of Oil Shale

H.E.

McCarthy

469

Chemical and Physical Characterization of Effluent Streams from the

Processing

of Australian Oil Shale

P.R. Bell, P.F. Greenfield, and D.J. Nicklin 477

The Utilization of Residual Heat in Spent MIS Retorts for Wastewater Treatment and Process Improvements

N.E. Hester and Carl Jacobson 487

Page

Biotreatment

of Oil _{Shale Wastewaters}

J.B.

_{Healy, Jr.,}

B.M.

_Jones,

G.W.

Langlois,

and C.G. Daughton 498

The

_Treatability

of Wastewaters Produced

_During

Oil Shale

_Retorting

D.R.

_Day

and B.O.

Desai,

and W.W.

Liberick,

Jr 512

Evaluation

of Control

_Technology

for Modified In Situ Oil Shale Retorts

P. Persoff and J. P. Fox 534

Oil Shale Health and Environmental Risk Analysis

L.B. Gratt 541

Effects of MIS

_Retorting

on Groundwater

N.E. Hester 550

Past and _{Present Geomorphic}

_Activity

_{in the Piceance Creek} Drainage

Basin,

Northwestern Colorado

J.W.

_Whitney

and E.D. Andrews 566

Preliminary

Computer Model of Ground Water Flow and Solute

Transport for MIS

_Retorting

at Tract

C-b,

Piceance Basin, Colorado

R.G. Shepherd 578

Environmental Baseline Characterization of the Naval Oil Shale Reserves in Colorado

John Dadiani and L.L. Meyer 591

Computer

_Modeling

of Interaction of TOSCO II Leachate with Weathered Uinta Formation