A Preliminary Electron Microprobe Study of Green River and Devonian Oil Shales

1978 ◽  
pp. 181-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. HAKKILA ◽  
N. E. ELLIOTT ◽  
J. M. WILLIAMS ◽  
E. M. WEWERKA
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microprobe ◽  
Green River ◽  
Oil Shales

ORGANIC MATTER IN OIL SHALES

1980 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.C. Hutton ◽  
A.J. Kantsler ◽  
A.C. Cook ◽  
D.M. McKirdy
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Oil Shale ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mineral Matter ◽  
Green River ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Recovery Cost ◽  
Oil Shales

The Tertiary oil-shale deposits at Rundle in Queensland and of the Green River Formation in the western USA, together with Mesozoic deposits such as those at Julia Creek in Queensland, offer prospects of competitive recovery cost through the use of large-scale mining methods or the use of in situ processing.A framework for the classification of oil shales is proposed, based on the origin and properties of the organic matter. The organic matter in most Palaeozoic oil shales is dominantly large, discretely occurring algal bodies, referred to as alginite A. However, Tertiary oil shales of northeastern Australia are chiefly composed of numerous very thin laminae of organic matter cryptically-interbedded with mineral matter. Because the present maceral nomenclature does not adequately encompass the morphological and optical properties of most organic matter in oil shales, it is proposed to use the term alginite B for finely lamellar alginite, and the term lamosites (laminated oil shales) for oil shales which contain alginite B as their dominant organic constituent. In the Julia Creek oil shale the organic matter is very fine-grained and contains some alginite B but has a higher content of alginite A and accordingly is assigned to a suite of oil shales of mixed origin.Petrological and chemical techniques are both useful in identifying the nature and diversity of organic matter in oil shales and in assessing the environments in which they were formed. Such an understanding is necessary to develop exploration concepts for oil shales.

Radio-frequency electrical properties of Green River oil shales

1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 1315-1321 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Rajeshwar ◽  
J. DuBow ◽  
R. Thapar
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Treatment ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Water Content ◽  
Relative Dielectric Constant ◽  
Organic Content ◽  
Oil Yield ◽  
Dielectric Parameters ◽  
Green River ◽  
Oil Shales ◽  
Tan Δ

Laboratory measurements on the radio-frequency (10–103 MHz) electrical behavior of Green River oil shales were carried out using an automated frequency domain technique. Data are presented which show the variation of the relative dielectric constant (ε′), dielectric loss (ε″), and loss tangent (tan δ) with shale oil yield, frequency, temperature, and water content. The magnitude of these electrical parameters is shown to be sensitive to water content and possibly to varve geometry. The ε′ values tend to decrease and tan δ increases with increasing oil yield for shales subjected to prior thermal treatment at ~110 °C for 1–2 weeks. A systematic variation is observed in the degree of scatter and in the extent of correlation of tan δ and ε′ as a function of oil yield with each subsequent thermal treatment cycle. The manner in which variations in shale water content and (or) varve geometry influence the magnitude of the measured dielectric parameters is illustrated by duplicate measurements on samples with identical organic content. Such effects are shown to be important at low measurement frequencies (< 200 MHz). The temperature dependence of ε′ and ε″ is seen to be weak in the range 25–250 °C and appears to be largely dominated by temperature-induced changes in the water content of the shale.

Measurement of thermal conductivity of Green River oil shales by a thermal comparator technique

Fuel ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 789-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Nottenburg ◽  
Krishnan Rajeshwar ◽  
Robert Rosenvold ◽  
Joel DuBow
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Green River ◽  
Oil Shales

Temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity of Green River oil shales

Fuel ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 690-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishnan Rajeshwar ◽  
Richard N. Nottenburg ◽  
Joel B. DuBow
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Green River ◽  
Oil Shales
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