Resurrecting Fluid Bed Retorting: Mining the refuse pile of oil shale processing technologies

摘要

1. High oil prices will not make small scale units magically become economical 2. Too much iron, steel and concrete with current concepts 3. Need to find a larger capacity alternative 4. FCCU holds considerable promise, but needs testing 5. Think beyond Big Oil's dead ends 5.1 FCCU benefited from years of improvements Investigate beneficiation - fines not an issue if Fl. Bed 6. Oil sands has become commercial, oil shale can too 7. Large and complicated solid's projects have fallen into ill repute of late - recover former innovative competence.