USAF SHALE OIL TO FUELS, PHASE II.

The study describes pilot plant operations conducted to demonstrate innovative technology to reduce the cost of converting shale oil to high yields of aviation turbine fuels. Four specific processing steps were involved in these pilot plant operations, namely: feed preparation, low pressure hydrotreating, high pressure hydrotreating, and hydrocracking. Two shale oil feedstocks were utilized for each processing step. Using data generated from these pilot plant operations economic analyses were performed to find the cost of production of jet fuel, and of total liquid product at a 15% discounted cash flow rate of return on investment.