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A continuous process for recovering oil from raw oil shale using a new integrated hydropyrolysis/thermal pyrolysis technique and involving the addition of pulverized coal which produces oil which is more characteristic of typical crude oil, as well as providing supplemental gas and coal char fuel, a

A continuous process for recovering oil from raw oil shale using a new integrated hydropyrolysis/thermal pyrolysis technique and involving the addition of pulverized coal which produces oil which is more characteristic of typical crude oil, as well as providing supplemental gas and coal char fuel, and has unusually low heat and energy requirements, which process comprises passing hot and crushed raw shale to a slurry mixer where it is mixed with hot recycle heavy oil, treating the resulting slurry with hydrogen under elevated temperature and pressure for a short period, discharging the resulting mixture to a product stripper wherein the product hydrocarbons and a portion of the recycle slurry oil is vaporized and passed to a separation column where the desired fractions are removed and heavy gas oil recovered for recycle, mixing a portion of the heavy gas oil recycle with pulverized coal particles to form a pumpable coal slurry, discharging spent shale and remaining slurry oil from the product stripper to a thermal retort operated under fluidized bed conditions wherein a temperature gradient is maintained by introducing spent shale and coal char that has been burned in an air lift combustor into at least two different treatment zones, the upper zone being selected such that the temperature is sufficient to vaporize the remaining slurry oil, and the lower zone being selected such that the temperature is sufficient to thermally retort spent shale, pyrolyze coal and thermally crack excess heavy gas oil charged to the lower zone as a coal slurry, taking the product as high temperature vapor to a quench tower wherein the liquid product is recycled to the hydrogenation reactor and the heavy gas oil is recycled to the slurry mixer.

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A continuous process for treating raw oil shale to produce shale oil of improved quality and yield and reduced cost which comprises the following steps: a. crushing and grinding the raw oil shale, b. heating and drying the crushed and ground shale, c. passing the heated and dried shale particles to

A continuous process for treating raw oil shale to produce shale oil of improved quality and yield and reduced cost which comprises the following steps: a. crushing and grinding the raw oil shale, b. heating and drying the crushed and ground shale, c. passing the heated and dried shale particles to a slurry mixer where they are mixed with hot heavy oil recycle. d. passing the slurry into a pressurized hydropyrolysis chamber where it is treated with hydrogen under a pressure of 500 to 2000 psi and a temperature of 400 degrees C. to 475 degrees C. for a short residence time, and taking steps during this reaction to prevent the temperature from rising more than about 25 degrees C. above the aforementioned range, e. discharging the hydropyrolysis reaction mixture into a product stripper wherein the product hydrocarbons and a portion of the recycle slurry oil is vaporized and passed to a separation column where the desired fractions are removed and heavy gas oil recovered, f. mixing the heavy gas oil so recovered with pulverized coal particles to form a pumpable slurry to be charged to the high temperature zone of a thermal retort, g. passing spent shale and slurry oil from the product stripper to a fluidized bed thermal retort in which a temperature gradient is maintained by introducing spent shale and coal char that has been burned in an air lift combustor into at least two different treatment zones, the upper zone being selected such that the temperature is sufficient to vaporize the remaining slurry oil, and the lower zone being selected such that the temperature is sufficient to thermally retort residual organic carbon and hydrogen remaining after hydropyrolysis, pyrolyze coal charged to the lower zone and to thermally crack the excess heavy oil charged to this zone of the reactor. h. taking the combined gas and liquid product to a quench tower where the liquid product is recycled to the hydropyrolysis reactor and the heavy gas oil is recycled to the slurry mixer. i. and discharging the spent shale and coal char at the bottom of the thermal retort chamber to the air lift combustor.