Posters

Oil Shale Combustion

• Dmitri Neshumayev: Peculiarities of heat balance and thermal efficiency estimations at oil shale combustion (pdf)
• Kristjan Plamus: Firing Estonian oil shale fuel with different quality in circulating fluidized bed boiler (pdf)
• Mai Uibu: Mineral CO₂ sequestration by aqueous carbonation of oil shale ash from Estonian power production (pdf)
• Jüri Loosaar: Emissions from Estonian oil shale PF and CFB firing (pdf)
• Igor Krupenski: Numerical simulation of uprising gas-solid particles turbulent flow using two-dimension reynolds average navier stokes equations for fluidized beds conditions (pdf)
• Natalja Savest: Thermally pre-treated Kukersite oil shale characterization: swelling in solvents (pdf)
• Baizhong Sun: Experimental Investigation on Combustion of Oil Shale Semi-coke on CFBC Pilot (pdf)

Oil Shale Retorting

• Hans Luik: Co-processing of oil shale with some other energy sources (pdf)
• Ille Johannes: Comparison of the thermobituminiztion kinetics of Baltic oil shale in open retorts and autoclaves (pdf)
• Vahur Oja: Vaporization related properties of pyrolysis oils/tars from Kukersite oil shale (pdf)
• Laine Tiikma: Interaction of Estonian oil shales with plastic wastes at their copyrolysis (pdf)
• David Whittaker: Advanced designs for TSK condensation trains & TSK gas plants to work with Eesti Energia TSK-280 retort trains (pdf)
• Ille Johannes: Dissolution kinetics of oil shale thermobitumen in different solvents (pdf)
• Alfred Elenurm: Recycling of waste plastic via co-processing with Kukersite oil shale (pdf)
• Julia Sokolova: Copyrolysis of Estonian oil shale and peat (pdf)
• Laine Tiikma: Separation of thermobitumen from oil shale mineral part (pdf)
• Aleksei Zaidentsal: Development of oil shale liquification process through thermobitumen stage (pdf)
• Harold Krenkel: Evaluation of liquid hydrocarbon recovery potential from Swedish alum shale (pdf)
• Jüri Soone: Combined retorting of oil shale and lignite (pdf)
• Chaohe Fang: The development and trend of in-situ conversion process technology in China (pdf)
• Arvo Ots: Application of SEC technology for shale oil production (pdf)
• Hella Riisalu: Some aspects of oil shale retorting BAT determination (pdf)
• Hazem Ramini: Comparison of different retorting technologies (pdf)
• De-min He: Nitrogen compounds distribution and identification in fushun (pdf)
• Giuseppe Chiavari: Study of the organic liquid obtained from supercritical water conversion of Estonian dictyonema and Kukersite oil shale by PY-GC/MS (pdf)
  

Environment

• Tom Wood: Near field impacts of in-situ oil shale development on water quality – some early results (pdf)
• Andres Trikkel: Oil shale ashes as dry sorbents for acidic flue gases (pdf)
• Jaanis Juhanson: Feasibility of phytoremediation and bioaugmentation for remediation oil shale chemical industry solid waste (pdf)
• Robert Podgorney: Potential for air quality to limit oil shale development in the western United States (pdf)
• Kalmer Sokman: The influence of oil shale mining to the environment of the county Ida-Virumaa, Estonia (pdf)
• Margit Heinlaan: Impact of open oil shale mining and powerplants on the chemical and ecotoxicological quality of rivers and sediments in East Estonia (pdf)
• Helena Lind: Changes in Estonian oil shale deposit groundwater dynamics opening new oil shale mines using advanced groundwater modeling techniques (pdf)
• Margus Pensa: Changes in Alutaguse lowland caused by oil-shale mining: challenges for restoration ecology (pdf)
• Marko Kaasik: Impact of airborne pollution to the bog ecosystem in Estonian oil shale mining and processing region (pdf)
• Ljudmilla Kekisheva: Investigations into methods of purification from nitrogen compounds of phenolic waters of the kiviter process (pdf)
• Janek Reinik: Environmentally friendly products from oil shale industry waste - synthesis of catalyst carriers (pdf)
• Riho Iskül: Solving problems related to the Ubja oil shale opencast mine, Estonia (pdf)
• Ekaterina Panova: Role of chemical analysis in identification of environmental hazard of oil shale processing wastes (pdf)
• Riho Iskül: The origin and amount of removal water in the Ubja oil shale opencast mine and its influence to the Toolse river (pdf)
• De-min He: Preparation of silica white from residue of Huadian oil shale (pdf)
• Liidia Bityukova: Study of trace and heavy metals in ashes of Balti and Eesti power plants (pdf)
• Indrek Külaots: Properties of carbon from oil shale semicokes (pdf)
• Natalya Irha: Combustion ash in terrestrial system, mobility of main and trace compounds and their environmental effects (pdf)
• Erik Teinemaa: A chamber study of the atmospheric behavior of aerosols, containing ash particles from oil-shale combustion (pdf)
• Valdo Liblik: Decreasing of hazardous wastes and pollutants from oil shale processing (pdf)
• Hani Hijazi: Groundwater vulnerability and hazards in Lajjun oil shale area of Jordan (pdf)

Resource Exploration and Mining

• Marc Dohmen: Modern software for oil shale deposit- and mine design-modeling (pdf)
• Hella Riisalu: Studies of oil shale properties variation in El Lajjun (Jordan) borehole (pdf)
• Väino Puura: Oil shale of Estonia in context of world resources (pdf)
• Veiko Karu: Modelling oil shale mining space and processes (pdf)
• Sergei Sabanov: Production quality control in mines of Baltic oil shale deposits (pdf)
• Heidi Soosalu: Detection of mine collapses with seismic methods – a case study from Estonia (pdf)
• Wenhua Bai: The influence factors of heterogeneity of oil shale’s thickness and oil content (pdf)
• Zhao Qun: Geological background of oil shale forming, China (pdf)
• Leonid Anisimov: Hydrocarbons in shale formations: geological setting, properties and extraction problems (pdf)
• Sergei Sabanov: Assessment of perspective development of oil shale deposits (pdf)
• Honglin Liu: Study on controlling oil shale formation in Huadian basin, northeastern China (pdf)
• Mostafa Temraz: Mineralogical, geochemical and economic evaluation of the late Eocene shales, northern Sinai, Egypt (pdf)
• Miroslav Vrvic: Review of our beneficiation of oil shale by bioprocessing on laboratory scale (pdf)
• Jelena Hruljova: Kukersite oil shale solvent swelling: swelling equilibrium in binary mixtures (pdf)
• Rein Palvadre: Beneficiation of Estonian (Kukersiit) oil shales (pdf)
• Allan Viil: Technical reclaiming of oil shale open cast mines (pdf)
• Orhan Kavak: Organic geochemical characteristics of Şirnak region asphaltites in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey (pdf)

National Strategies and Developments

• Andres Anijalg: Eesti Energia - development projects in Jordan (pdf)
• Michael Bromley-Challenor: Energy Independence for Europe: 2009 Update on Development of the Cambrian Alum Shale of Sweden, a World Class Energy Resource for Oil and Uranium (pdf)
• Vello Kattai: Estonian oil shale as an „artificial oil” resource (pdf)
• Indrek Jakobson: Economic, scientific and technical outlook for oil shale retorting activities within the coal to liquids strategic context in Europe (pdf)
• Tom Wood: The Western Energy Corridor initiative (pdf)
• Ghussaina Hilu: Proficiency testing : inter-laboratories comparison of oil shale analysis (pdf)

Project Development and Financing

• Martin Meyer-Renschhausen: Developing the oil shale reservoirs – lessons to be learnt from the Canadian oil sands industry? (pdf)
• Sanjiv Save: Oil shales: process and challenges (pdf)