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Show 1 III QiiOElGB GE3GfI7 Successful extraction of tar from tar sand deposits has been achieved in a recently re-cently completed field test, ITT Research Institute President David L. Morris -on announced. Tar sands and oil shale are two of the sources of synthetic crude which can be used to make most of the products currently made with conventional conven-tional crude oil. HTRI's process makes extraction economically feasible and environmentally sound. At a test site in the Asphalt As-phalt Ridge tar sand deposit at Vernal, Utah, a 50 ton block of tar sand containing about 24 barrels of tar was heated in place to temperatures temper-atures ranging between 400 F to 487F over a 20 day test period. About 160 gallons, or four barrels of tar were produced. This represents a very rapid rate of recovery over 17 per cent of the tar in the test volume of the deposit in less than three weeks, and Is evidence of the commercial .potential of the process. Our success is a major breakthrough in demonstrating demonstrat-ing that America can produce synthetic fuel In a safe and economical manner, there- that used In home microwave micro-wave ovens. Boreholes are drilled at the tar sand site, and pipes Inserted deep into the ground in a special grid pattern. A novel electrical process produces contained and controlled radio waves underground, forming an electromagnetic cavity in the tar sands. The tar is literally liter-ally cooked out of the deposit, and then extracted through pipes without extensive mining min-ing or producing any rubble. rub-ble. No on site combustion is necessary, minimal amounts of water are used and there is minimal waste disposal. In addition, the process is economically favorable because be-cause the capital requirements require-ments are modest and production pro-duction costs of the oil extracted ex-tracted are significantly below be-low current world market prices. Major capital equipment Items are adaptations of existing equipment designs that were developed for other purposes. Up to 80 percent of a tar sand deposit can be heated in place, and for every barrel equivalent of energy used in the process, three to five barrels are produced. The ITTRI process has been under laboratory study since 1976, and was given government research support sup-port from the DOE in 1978. In 1979, the effort was enlarged en-larged to include field tests on tar sands and oil shales. by reducing dependency on foreign imports. The amount of fuel recovered in a relatively rela-tively short period of time leads us to believe that this process can be made commercially com-mercially viable with further fur-ther development. Commercialization ofthls process would make avail- -able about eight billion barrels bar-rels of fuel in the UJS. tar sand deposits, most of which exist In Utah. This would represent a sizeable addition to the proven conventional petroleum reserve of 27 billion bil-lion barrels In the UJS. HTRI's proprietary process pro-cess is a radio frequency heating process, similar to |