Assessment of Imperfect Heater Contact due to in-situ Pyrolysis of Oil Shale

• Main Author: YAO, HOR WENG
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: IRC 2015
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15710/1/Dissertation%20%5B14872%5D.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15710/

Oil shale, known as one of the unconventional oil sources, has world reserve of an equivalent to 3.2 trillion barrels of crude oil. Oil shale is a kerogen rich fine sedimentary rock which can be converted into crude oil via a heating process called as pyrolysis. In in-situ pyrolysis of oil shale, a...