YANG Qingchun, ZHANG Jun, YANG Siyu, et al. Modeling and techno-economic analysis for comprehensive utilization process of oil shale[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (7): 2793-2801.
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YANG Qingchun, ZHANG Jun, YANG Siyu, et al. Modeling and techno-economic analysis for comprehensive utilization process of oil shale[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (7): 2793-2801.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2014.07.041.
Modeling and techno-economic analysis for comprehensive utilization process of oil shale
exploration of oil shale attracts increasingly attention of different countries
especially China. However
there are few systematic studies on comprehensive utilization of oil shale. This paper models a comprehensive utilization process and analyzes its techno-economic performance
compared to a conventional pyrolysis process. Appropriate retorting temperature and air to steam ratio are selected according to oil productivity and electricity generation. The comparison suggests that the comprehensive process is more economically competitive: the return on investment increasing from 13% to 16% and the payback period decreased from 7.5 years to 6.3 years.