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The raw Colorado shale oil used in this study was provided by DOE s Laramie Energy Research Center (LERC). It was prepared in the Paraho tests in a surface retort operated in the so-called indirectly heated mode. As received, it was an emulsion containing 6% water and about 0.5% fine particles in the shale oil. Heating this mixture to 170°F broke the emulsion most of the water and fines settled out after standing at... 

X omestic tar sands are known to contain over 30 billion barrels of oil, - most of which occurs in a few deposits in Utah (I). The Laramie Energy Research Center (LERC) is investigating many of these deposits in order to determine the potential for exploitation of this resource. 

Late in 1975, personnel from Laramie Energy Research Center (LERC), then of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, conducted an in situ recovery experiment in the Northwest Asphalt Ridge deposit near Vernal, Utah. Reverse combustion was chosen as a recovery method because it was felt that this method was more likely to succeed for in situ recovery of tar sands hydrocarbons. 

Work in the area of hydrocarbon-type analysis, i.e. saturate, olefin, and aromatic, has been conducted at the Laramie Energy Research Center (LERC) for over two decades. During this time, a significant portion of the eflFort has been directed towards the quantification and characterization of the various types of olefins found in Green River Formation shale oils and their distillate fractions (1-9). 

Gunn, R.D. Whitman, D.L. LERC (Laramie Energy Research Center)/RI-76/2, 1976. 

Kotowsky, M. D. and R. D. Gunn, Laramie Energy Research Center Report LERC/RI-76/4, Laramie, WY (1976). 

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