Radio Frequency heating for oil recovery and soil remediation

Radio Frequency heating for oil recovery and soil remediation

The paper presents basic principles of RF heating and describes its possible applications for oil extraction and soil remediation, based on the experience obtained by several years of work at Consorzio Polo Tecnologico Magona (CPTM). Activities include a complete approach, which goes through the steps of problem formulation, modeling, and experimentation. It is shown that RF heating can represe...

The Viability of Oil Extraction from Trinidad Tar Sands by Radio Frequency Heating: A Simulation Approach

Trinidad has tar sand resources of about 2 billion barrels of oil on land in the Parrylands/Guapo and Brighton areas. With an oil price of over USD 25 per barrel, the commercial extraction of oil from Trinidad tar sands is viable, but it requires a careful study. The relatively small extent of this tar sand (about 10,000 acres and with depths varying from surface to less than 500 feet) and with...

Microwave and Radio Frequency Heating

Thermal Remediation of Tar-Contaminated Soil and Oil-Contaminated Gravel

Pilot plant studies were carried out to evaluate the feasibility of remediation of coal tarcontaminated soil and oil-contaminated gravel by incineration with environmentally acceptable performance. In addition to adequate decontamination and emission control, effort was devoted to treating the special feedstocks with difficult handling properties by use of conventional combustion and feeding sy...

Sterilization of Foodstuffs Using Radio Frequency Heating

A study was conducted with a pilot-scale sterilization system based on 27-MHz radio frequency (RF) energy to investigate the effectiveness in shortening process time and in improving quality for foods sealed in 6pound military-ration polymeric trays. Chemical marker M-1 was used to evaluate heating uniformity in 20% whey protein gels as a model food, and macaroni and cheese was processed to ass...