| Show Tar sand process invented by U. U fo U. U engineers A thermal process that provides nearly all its own energy and uses little water has been invented by researchers at the University of Utah to produce a synthetic crude oil from tar sands The U. U of U U. U engineers engineers' have used a small reactor to demonstrate their inventions invention's capability of extracting bitumen from sand grains for conversion conversion conversion con con- version into gasoline and other valuable petroleum products Bitumen is a tar like substance black found as coating on sand particles Deposits are scattered around the world with major ones in northern Canada where a plant has been operating for several years and in eastern Venezuela In addition Utah has substantial deposits which account for about 95 percent of the mapped tar sand reserves in the US U.S. The process is the creation of Dr J. J D. D Seader professor and chairman of the department department department depart depart- ment of chemical engineering and K M. M M a ao graduate student in chemical 1 engineering t v While the process now now operating in Canada needs large amounts of water to cause separation ot of the Ute tar from the sand the Utah method removes the bitumen by exposing the oil-impregnated oil rock to high temperatures Our research has been primarily directed at Utah tar sands Seader says Because of water shortages in this state we concentrated on developing a process that doesn't require much water like Coal-like chunks of tar sand are ground up before being hopper-fed hopper into a reactors reactor's cylindrical cylindrical cylindrical reaction vessel in inthe inthe inthe the the College of Engineering laboratory Burning coke residue provides heat for the process I L rocs OOH 1 AY Al ai I If I a aA A Hr w I pt C IIII 1 IF rue US 1St or XRAY i 1 RAT IN fN Ni f u I t 1 S L. L t I Ir r JEFF DROLLINGER of Vernal Junior High School not only took first place trophy for all seventh-grade seventh entries in the dentistry- dentistry medical division he also won first place honor in dentistry out of the entire through grade entries Does X-ray X tell it like S Sit it is queried Jeffs Jeff's project title |
