Orimulsion
Creators
- 1. Bitor America Corp., Boca Raton, FL (United States)
Description
This paper discusses orimulsion, a heavy bitumen (70%) in water (30%) emulsion, marketed in North America by BITOR AMERICA CORPORATION, has been successfully tested in Canada and is being tested in Florida as a new power plant fuel. Orimulsion underwent extensive bench, pilot and field testing before a commercial scale demonstration program was started in 1987 in Canada. The fuel has also been commercially evaluated in installations in Europe and Japan and more recently in a 400 MWe generating unit in Florida. Existing production capacity of 50,000 barrels per day (2.9 million metric tons per year) will be doubled by 1992. The price of Orimulsion is indexed to the cost of delivered coal fuel. This is one of its many economic advantages. Also, the supply contracts are intended to have a duration of about 15 to 20 years
Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- A new fuel for power generation
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- Imprint Place
- New York, NY (United States)
- ISBN
- 0-7918-0822-X
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of fuel strategies for conventional and unconventional fuels
- Imprint Pagination
- 104 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1-6.
Conference
- Title
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 1991 joint power generation conference and exhibition.
- Dates
- 6-10 Oct 1991.
- Place
- San Diego, CA (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 24002882
- Subject category
- S04: OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BITUMENS; COMBUSTION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMULSIONS; ENERGY SOURCES; EUROPE; FIELD TESTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; PLANNING; POWER GENERATION; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; RESERVES; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; WATER
- Descriptors DEC
- ASIA; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COLLOIDS; COOPERATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISPERSIONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; TAR
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-911018--.