C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 10 – G
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
10
G
196/30
C10G 1/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1139703
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A continuous process for the production of shale oil and other products from oil shale which includes removing a relatively small, up to substantial amounts, of the water present in the oil shale in the first step of the process prior to recovery of the major amount of the oil by retorting the same to avoid sticky or pitch deposits and interference by the latter in the retorting step of the process which comprises subjecting the said oil shale in subdivided form to a preliminary step of indirect heat treatment in a partial dehydration step, collecting the vapors and gases from the said partial dehydration step in the temperature range from the ambient up to about 212°F to about 550°F to remove small, up to relatively large amounts of free and combined water from the oil shale, thereafter passing the heated partially dehydrated oil shale to the retorting step for further heat treatment at a substantially higher temperature than the preliminary step in the approximate range of about 800°F to 1000°F in a rotating substantially horizontal cylindrical vessel said heat treatments in the partial dehydration and retorting steps being effected by indirect heat exchange with hot com- bustion and flue gases therefrom which gases are not in direct contact with the oil shale, said further heat treatment being conducted while rotating the partially treated oil shale in a substantially horizontal cylindrical vessel, the vapors and gaseous products resulting from the heat treatment of the said partial dehydration and retorting of the process, fractionating the vapors withdrawn from the retorting step whereby there is removed a light overhead product comprising vapors of low boiling hydrocarbons, water, hydrocarbon gases and ammonia wherein the heavier conversion oil products from the oil shale are condensed and separated as a liquid for further treatment and use.
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Fetherstonhaugh & Co.
Morrell Jacque C.
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