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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 1980
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Leslie E Compton, Claremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Occidental Research Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2082 / ; 208 / ; 166251 ; 166256 ; 166259 ; 166267 ; 299-6 ;
Abstract
Crude shale oil produced by in situ retorting of oil shale can contain from about 1 to 2% sulfur by weight, the sulfur being distributed widely through the lower and higher boiling fractions of the shale oil. Substantially non-condensible sulfur containing gas such as hydrogen sulfide is evolved from such crude shale oil by maintaining such shale oil at an elevated temperature in the substantial absence of added reagent, with the maximum temperature below thermal decomposition temperatures of such shale oil for sufficient time to lower the sulfur content of the shale oil.