Several difficulties existed in the working of Fushun oil shale retorts are listed below.
1.Distilling thmperature may be too high and oil vapor distilled out may be consider-ably cracked.The yiell of crude tar were 90% in the case of 50t retorts and 75% in the case of 180t ones.
2.Formation of clinkers in the distilling chamber disturbed the normal running of the retorts.
3.The gas prom distilling chamber carried out the oil dust which deposited in the.pipelines and amounted to ca.80t/d.
4.Shortage of shale supply required the utilization of small grains of shale under one inch size which were not used so far in Fushun.
The chemical reactions in the producer chamber, the composition of produce gas, thethmperature distribution through out the retort, the relations between distilling temper-ature and extent of cracking of distilled oil vapor, the reflut condensation of oil vapor and the formation of oil dust etc.were investigated, and the reasonable of these phen-omena were elucidated, As the results of these investigations the proper improvements of operating conditions for the Fushun retort were worked out and the oil yield of 180t retort increased to 90%, and the many difficulties listed above were all disappeared.Parts of the retorts were improved so as to suit for small grains of shale and were found to work well.
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