Alumina from oil shale [electronic resource]
Dawsonite-bearing oil shale of Colorado's Green River Formation offers a unique and vast (6.5 billion tons of Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/) resource of easily extractable alumina. The processing methods required by the thermal reactions of dawsonite and its oil-shale carrier also require production of sha...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Laramie, Wyo. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
Laramie Energy Technology Center ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy,
1980.
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| Summary: | Dawsonite-bearing oil shale of Colorado's Green River Formation offers a unique and vast (6.5 billion tons of Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/) resource of easily extractable alumina. The processing methods required by the thermal reactions of dawsonite and its oil-shale carrier also require production of shale oil, soda ash, and nahcolite as marketable coproducts. These production methods are presented. The alumina production process is contrasted with the Bayer process to describe technical advantages of extraction of alumina from oil shale which may offset the problems associated with processing a relatively lean ore. While alumina production from oil shale requires development of new technology, the technical problems appear solvable. Only the political problems arising from the now onerous and completely unnecessary Federal oil-shale withdrawal appear less solvable. |
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| Item Description: | Published through SciTech Connect. 01/01/1980. "conf-800205-11" American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers meeting, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Feb 1980. Smith, J.W. |
| Physical Description: | Pages: 9 : digital, PDF file. |