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Composition, Geochemistry and Conversion of Oil Shales (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Composition, Geochemistry and Conversion of Oil Shales (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: NATO Science Series C, 455
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Oil shales are broadly dermed as petroleum source rocks containing
sufficiently high contents of organic matter (above ca 10-15 wt. %)
to make utilisation a possibility. Like coal, the world's reserves
of oil shales are vast being many times larger than those proven
for crude oil. Indeed, some of the largest deposits occur in the
USA and Europe where Estonia and Turkey have large reserves. The
first recorded interest in oil shale retorting was an English
patent in 1694 (Eele, Hancock and Porter, No. 330) which refers to
distilling noyle from some kind of stone." The oil shale retorting
industry dates back to the middle of the last century, notably
Scotland, Estonia, France and Sweden in Europe. Indeed, my own
Department at the University of Strathclyde has a historical link
with James "Paraffin" Young, the founder of the Scottish oil shale
industry who endowed a chair in Applied Chemistry. The growth of
the oil industry saw the demise of the oil shale industry in most
countries with the notable exception of Estonia, where kukersite
has continued to be used for power generation and retorting.
However, oil shale utilisation has attracted renewed attention
since the early 1970s as a source of transport fuels and chemical
feedstocks due to the the long term uncertainties over crude oil
supplies.
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