Union process

The Union process was an above ground shale oil extraction technology for production of shale oil, a type of synthetic crude oil. The process used a vertical retort where heating causes decomposition of oil shale into shale oil, oil shale gas and spent residue. The particularity of this process is that oil shale in the retort moves from the bottom upward to the top, countercurrent to the descending hot gases, by a mechanism known as a rock pump. The process technology was invented by the American oil company Unocal Corporation in late 1940s and was developed through several decades. The largest oil shale retort ever built was the Union B type retort.

History

Union Oil Company of California (Unocal) started its oil shale activities in 1920s. In 1921, it acquired an oil shale tract in the Parachute Creek area of Colorado, southern Piceance Basin. The development of the Union process began in the late 1940s, when the Union A retort was designed. This technology was tested between 1954 and 1958 at the company-owned tract in the Parachute Creek. During these tests, up to 1,200 tonne per day of oil shale was processed, resulting of 800 barrels per day (130 m³/d) shale oil, which was refined at a Colorado refinery. More than 13,000 barrels (2,100 m³) of gasoline and fuels were produced. This production was finally shut down in 1961 due to cost.

Mór

Mór (German: Moor) is a town in Fejér county, Hungary. Among the smaller towns in the Central Transdanubia Region of Hungary, it lies between Vértes and Bakony Hills, in the northwestern corner of Fejér Country. The historic roots of the present town go back to the Celtic an Roman Period. The town is the meanest settlement in the Mór-ditch it is also the economical, institutional and cultural centre of the small region of Mór including 13 settlements. The improvement of the town began with the arrival of ethnic German settlers and Capuchin monks in 1697. In 1758 it got the marker-town state.

The host of here living inhabitants the oenological and ethnic customs, the fine and arts and crafts as well as grooming of musical culture, the face of the town that becomes continuously nicer make the town more and more attractive for the visiting guest. The Battle of Mór on December 30, 1848 was a crucial victory for the Austrian Empire's forces in crushing the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Ferenc Krausz, who was rewarded with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2006, was born May 17, 1962 in Mór.

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