GASIFICATION OF BELARUSIAN OIL SHALES
IN A FILTRATION-COMBUSTION WAVE

K. V. Dobrego, S. A. Zhdanok, and I. A. Koznacheev

UDC 536.46

The regimes of gasification of Belarusian oil shales have 
been analyzed based on a generalized volume-averaged filtration-combustion 
model. The existence of three basic regimes - those of cocurrent 
and countercurrent filtration waves and of low-temperature volume 
pyrolysis - has been established. Data on the conditions of their 
existence have been obtained. The heat content of a producer gas in 
shale gasification in a stationary cocurrent filtration-combustion 
wave with air and oxygen-enriched blast has been evaluated.

Keywords: oil shales, filtration combustion, gasification, 
mathematical simulation.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences 
of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 205-214, March-April,
2009. Original article submitted March 18, 2008.