Oil Shale: A Solution to the Liquid Fuel Dilemma

Content: CONTENTS; PREFACE; OVERVIEW; 1. An Overview of Oil Shale Resources; EMILY KNAUS, JAMES KILLEN, KHOSROW BIGLARBIGI, AND PETER CRAWFORD; 2. New Challenges and Directions in Oil Shale Development Technologies; PETER M. CRAWFORD AND JAMES C. KILLEN; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND GEOLOGY; 3. Lake Level Controlled Sedimentological Heterogenity of Oil Shale, Upper Green River Formation, Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah; WILLIAM GALLIN, M. ROYHAN GANI, MILIND DEO, NAHID DS GANI, AND MICHAEL D. VANDEN BERG; CHEMISTRY AND PROCESS MODELING; 4. Thermodynamics of Shale Oil Production James W. Bunger and Christopher P. Russell; 5. Molecular Composition of Shale Oil; JAMES W. BUNGER, CHRISTOPHER P. RUSSELL, AND DONALD E. COGSWELL; 6. Chemistry and Kinetics of Oil Shale Retorting; ALAN K. BURNHAM; 7. Modeling of the In-Situ Production of Oil from Oil Shale; JACOB H. BAUMAN, CHUNG KAN HUANG, M. ROYHAN GANI, AND MILIND D. DEO; INDUSTRIAL OIL SHALE PROCESSES; 8. AMSO's Novel Approach to In-Situ Oil Shale Recovery; ALAN K. BURNHAM, ROGER L. DAY, MICHAEL P. HARDY, AND P. HENRIK WALLMAN; 9. Shell's In Situ Conversion Process?From Laboratory to Field Pilots; ROBERT C. RYAN, THOMAS D. FOWLER, GARY L. BEER, AND VIJAY NAIR; 10. ExxonMobil's ElectrofracM Process for In Situ Oil Shale Conversion; W. A. SYMINGTON, R. D. KAMINSKY, W. P. MEURER, G. A. OTTEN, M. M. THOMAS, AND J. D. YEAKEL; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; 11. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Oil Shale Derived Liquid Fuels; ADAM R. BRANDT, JEREMY BOAK, AND ALAN K. BURNHAM; 12. A Review of Activities To Address the Environmental Impacts of Oil Shale Development; DAVID K. OLSEN, ARTHUR HARTSTEIN, AND DAVID R. ALLEMAN; ECONOMICS, LEGAL, POLICY AND SOCIAL ISSUES; 13. Economics of Oil Shale Development; KHOSROW BIGLARBIGI, JAMES KILLEN, HITESH MOHAN, MARSHALL CAROLUS, AND JEFFREY STONE; 14. Resource Management Challenges in the Context of Potential Oil Shale Development; KIRSTEN UCHITEL, JOHN RUPLE, AND ROBERT KEITER; INDEXES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX