Spinti - Utah oil shale: science, technology, and policy perspectives

UTAH OIL SHALE

Science, Technology, and Policy Perspectives

UTAH OIL SHALE

Science, Technology, and Policy Perspectives

EDITED BY

Jennifer P. Spinti

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Spinti, Jennifer P, editor.

Title: Utah oil shale : science, technology, and policy perspectives / Jennifer Spinti, editor.

Other titles: Oil shale

Description: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016021017 | ISBN 9781498721721 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Oil-shales--Utah. | Oil shale reserves--Utah. | Shale oils.

Classification: LCC TN858 .U83 2017 | DDC 553.2/8309792--dc23

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Contents

Jennifer P. Spinti and Philip J. Smith

John C. Ruple

John C. Ruple

Michael D. Vanden Berg and Lauren P. Birgenheier

Thomas H. Fletcher, Ronald J. Pugmire, Mark S. Solum, Charles L. Mayne, Anita M. Orendt, and Julio C. Facelli

Thomas H. Fletcher, Ronald J. Pugmire, Mark S. Solum, and Charles L. Mayne

Pankaj Tiwari, Josh Staten, and Milind Deo

Jan D. Miller and Chen-Luh Lin

Thang Q. Tran and John D. McLennan

Michal Hradisky and Philip J. Smith

Jonathan E. Wilkey, Jennifer P. Spinti, and Terry A. Ring

Kerry E. Kelly, John C. Ruple, and Jonathan E. Wilkey

The idea for this book came from a desire to archive in one scholarly work the results from nearly a decade of research at the University of Utahs Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE) relating to the creation of an industry for unconventional oil production in the United States. Research funding came from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with research direction from DOE and from the Energy Policy Act of 2005. ICSE was to serve as an ongoing source of unbiased information to the nation surrounding technical, economic, legal, and environmental aspects of developing oil sands and oil shale resources. While ICSE research included work on both oil sands and oil shale, the material in this book is focused on oil shale with a specific emphasis on Utahs Uinta Basin. The Uinta Basin contains one of the largest oil shale resources in the United States, and much of the research was conducted on oil shale samples from there.

The ICSE research program was very broad, with researchers from four colleges and one bureau: the College of Engineering, the College of Law, the College of Science, the College of Mines and Earth Sciences, and the Utah Bureau of Economic and Business Research. The chapters in this book reflect the breadth of the research. Each chapter is authored by ICSE researchers who are experts in the chapter topic. In addition, collaborators from the Utah Geological Survey and Brigham Young University are coauthors on several of the chapters. The book is loosely organized by topic. The first chapter provides an introduction to the ICSE research program. analyzes each scenarios carbon footprint and ozone precursor emission and discusses these emissions in the context of Uinta Basin air quality and broader energy policy.

The authors of this book hope that the information contained herein will provide a stepping stone for the next generation of oil shale research.

Funding for the work contained in this book came principally from the Department of Energys National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) under award number DE-FE0001243. The authors thank NETL for their generous support and Robert Vagnetti, project director at NETL, for his guidance over the years. They also thank Dr. Olayinka Ogunsola at the Department of Energy for his leadership role and for his contributions to programmatic reviews.

Jennifer P. Spinti earned her PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1997. Her doctoral work focused on the fate of nitrogen that remains in the char during pulverized coal combustion. From 1998 to 2009, she was a postdoctoral fellow and then a research associate in the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE) at the University of Utah. During this time, she performed simulations of buoyancy-driven flows, including pool fires and flares, using high-performance computing resources as part of the Center for Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions.

She is currently a research associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. She served for six years as the assistant director of the Clean and Secure Energy from Domestic Oil Shale and Oil Sands Resources program within ICSE. She also organized the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference and was engaged in research projects related to the development of oil shale and oil sands resources in Utahs Uinta Basin.

Lauren P. Birgenheier

Department of Geology and Geophysics

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Milind Deo

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Julio C. Facelli

Department of Biomedical Informatics