Oil Shales
The increasing price of crude oil has spurred a renewed interest in production of shale oil. In addition to the ex-situ processes currently producing shale oil in Estonia, China, and Brazil, new in-situ and ex-situ processes are being explored in a variety of locations around the world. This symposium will cover both the fundamentals and demonstration aspects of these new and old processes as well as the business and environmental issues associated with making shale oil a significant liquid fuel in the future.
Scope
This session is dedicated to Recovery and Upgrading of Shale Oil.
The proposed topics are :
Topic 1
- In-Situ Processing
- Ex-Situ Processing
- Environmental Issues for Production
- Oil Shale Reaction Chemistry and Modeling
Topic 2
- Shale Oil Characterization
- Shale Oil Upgrading for Fuels
- Specialty Products from Shale Oi
Publication
This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings. However, we encourage the submission of the full articles to Energy & Fuels.
Organizers
Alan K. Burnham
American Shale Oil LLC
P. O. Box 1470
Rifle, CO 81650
aburnham@idt.net
Professor Li Shuyuan
China University of Petroleum
Fuxue Road, Changping District
Beijing, 102249, P.R. China
syli@cup.edu.cn