Page 104 ENERGY POLICY TURKEY USING OIL SHALE AS AN ALTERNATIVE RAW MATERIAL FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION AND POTENTIALITY OF TURKEY by Abdurrahman Murat WHAT IS OIL SHALE Oil shale is commonly defined as a fine- grained sedimentary rock containing organ- ic matter (kerogen) that yields substantial amounts of oil and combustible gas upon destructive distillation (retorting). Most of the organic matter is insoluble in ordinary organic solvents; therefore, it is decomposed by heating to release such materials. What derives the importance of oil shale to pro- duce energy including combustible gas and a number of procured products is how eco- nomic it can be recovered. Deposits of oil shale having economic po- tential are generally those that are at or near enough to the surface to be developed by open-pit, conventional underground mining or by in-situ methods. Oil shales have a wide range of organic content and oil yield. Com- mercial grades of oil shale, as determined by their shale oil yield, ranges from about 100 to 200 liters per metric ton (l/t) of rock. e U.S. Geological Survey has used a lower lim- it of about 42 lt/ton for classification of fed- eral oil-shale lands. USES, RESERVES AND STA- TUS OF OIL SHALE IN WORLD Oil shale researches that fired up the energy sector during the crisis experienced all over the world draw a sinusoidal curve. First re- searchers of the oil shale started producing Figure 1: A display of oil shale rock samples. “What derives the im- portance of oil shale to produce energy including combustible gas and a number of procured products is how economic it can be recovered.”
USING OIL SHALE AS AN ALTERNATIVE RAW MATERIAL FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION AND POTENTIALITY OF TURKEY
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