Compaction and Related Properties of Retorted Oil Shale

Abstract

AS part of a project to demonstrate the feasibility of retorting oil shale by the Paraho vertical retort process, laboratory and field tests were per formed to determine the physical and chemical properties of retorted oil shale for use as criteria for the design of full scale disposal systems. The material which exits from the retort is classified as a non‐plastic silty gravel. The material can be compacted to about 90 to over 100 pcf (1,440 to