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r <br />6ypusini of storm Nrouth thc~jnr portion of the <br />aviry. <br />Tool olI producttnn rarer the euntion of Nc field test <br />wu atlrtused to be 420 bbl. including accidenul dis- <br />ehuga to the disposal pits. <br />E..luatian of Proceu Yplumc <br />Evaluat;on of the process wlumc wu carrlcd 01rf both <br />dttring and .leer the Ierrnination of operations. Meuurc- <br />ments Of Nc sodium and COr psoduccd indiptnd the <br />Icad{Dd volume. Temperature meuvrcments at the 7-in. <br />easing and temperature profiles at Ne observation well, <br />(sec Fig. 14) provided data rm the temperature distribu- <br />tion as ^ function of rime in and near the process volume <br />A punch core ukcn NrouEh the Sri-in. casing during <br />wOrkovers bcn~t:en Phucs lll and I V gave imponint <br />information about Nc rice dutribvtion of Nc pariiclu <br />tridtin the pmcas volume and Neir degree of eompt- <br />trnry tnd altenrion. Pressure falloffs and surveys of <br />raria:s typo, infectivity tats, tempcrarurc surveys, and <br />sneer sera wuc airim out during Pnue 1 V to try to <br />urrdasund Nc behavior of the aviry. <br />Three eoct holes (C-I, C•2, and C-3) wtxe token <br />Nrough and nor Ne process volume, u shown in Fig. <br />1S. Carr Hole C.I ,which penetntrd Nr pro¢ss volume <br />only Nrough the Grecno nahcolitt bed, wu used for flow <br />^nd preswre tars with the Sn ^nd 7 in casings Log <br />giny wu rsrricl out in Core Holes C-1 and C-3. Special <br />acoustic eludics wore nude by e:hrrranging ofC Ne <br />neale5l pan Of the pmccss-volume wall fmm outside <br />Wills C-I and C-3 and mrrsuring the trans[ transit timo <br />between wells outside and inside the process volume. Of <br />Nose, Ne sonic transit ttmr was Ne more successful. <br />Cores from Wcll ('-2 provided inftxrssatlon on the condi~ <br />tion of material inside the pmccss zone. <br />Imtrpmatioe of the cores, logs, and sprnal rats indi- <br />ntts that Nt shape Of the process volume (or [aviry) is as <br />shown in Fig !S. Thc oil shalt beyond the cavity walls <br />wu found to contain small (resources near the injection <br />poc+ts, where Ne temperatures had been the highest. It <br />did not appear that she Grceno nahcolisc bed had Iwched <br />much beyond Nr avenge eav{ty radius, Ne maximum <br />radius appeared to be more than ?0 fs. Finely disagFrc- <br />Ratcd oil shalt wu found in considcrablc gwntities to the <br /> <br /> <br /> - liiiTljiil <br />~ <br /> _ <br />T ... <br /> I . <br /> ~ <br /> r~ r <br />. <br />_ ~{~` <br /> `+ <br />l <br />~ r <br /> - t~ a{;I ~ ~~ II <br /> <br /> ~ _ _ +~ ~ ~ I I y.~ _- <br /> <br /> I <br /> f J <br /> <br /> <br /> ~ ~1 <br />Fa'G tor-$eleaed tampenlace predes a: cewrYat10f1 troll <br />SEPTE1tPFR. s977 <br />process wlume, aped near the trap and below rock <br />ledges. These fines, whidt were ttprarnusivc of Ne <br />component minQal gain in the oil shale, wort taponsi- <br />ble (or she fbw Impaitmcnt in the noisy Or in she produc- <br />tion system. The ledges eovlC be corrrJucd roughly wiN <br />aa+cs of low-suhtolitc and high-ktroEen content The <br />Isattom of the process volume oonuined the larger oi1- <br />ahalepieces. Highest Nemvl conversion of ktTOgen ^nd <br />altaatian of minerals war obsavtli nor Ne arum iftjee- <br />sion poina where dse temperaarc was highest. Oil and <br />bitumen wuc found essentially over the esttirc interval <br />and in rtlarively high ronancations just below Ne in- <br />terva]s fmm which rto core ores recovered (sec Fig. IS). <br />Summary <br />From the resoles of the freld to:, we ooneludc that two of <br />the srujor objenivrs of the Feld test were met: it was <br />al+owm drat tuhmlite could be leadred ^nd slut nibbling <br />of the oil shale world occur. In some wrys, cobbling had <br />sucttiedcd tm well, because s`K fierce[ of disauregarion <br />obuined prevented the clrculuion of seam at rues rc- <br />quirr~ ro maintain tempClaturu at the design Icvcl, Ha <br />puce of Nis, the Nird majcs+objective could nor be mee <br />^ meaningful oiVstum ratio ould cal be dr;ttmsined. <br />Qthcr objectives that woe creel mtludcd dctamin ing Nat <br />a confined process volume txxrld be dcvclopcd without <br />romrtrunication with Ne leached zone. 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