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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"oil-shale industry"”.
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Industrial rotating kiln simulation
… developed to allow the commercial recovery of oil from oil shales. As part of this process, a rotating kiln is used to pyrolyse the organic component of the oil shales. The configuration and application of this rotating kiln is unique and hence previous rotating kiln models cannot be used to …
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The transformation of place: Boom, bust, and adjustment in Rifle, Colorado
… by the rapid growth and sudden collapse of the oil shale industry during the early 1980s. The focus of this study is on Rifle's post-boom functional transformations and the organized efforts of its residents to restructure the local economy through a tourism-related project. A model, based on …