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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FUSHUN OIL SHALE RETORTING FACTORY IN CHINA

1996; Estonian Academy Publishers; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3176/oil.1996.1.02

1736-7492

Z Chilin,

Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

This paper deals with the information concerning Fushun Oil Shale Retorting Factory which is the only working shale oil plant in China nowadays.Sixty Fushun-type retorts (gas generators) were built in 1992 and they are operating successfullyfor producing shale oil from Fushun oil shale with the Fischer assay about 7-8 %.The factory has made profits due to the low cost of oil shale as the by-product of open-pit mining of coal. PrefaceIn China, shale oil commercial production began in 1930 in Fushun Refinery No. 1, 1954 in Fushun Refinery No. 2, 1963 in Maoming Refinery.However, these three refineries switched over to crude oil refining and stopped the production of shale oil recently.National Planning Committee of China decided to build a new oil shale retorting factory under the Fushun