Reduction of Oil Shale Losses

Authors

  • Ingo Valgma Tallinn University of Technology
  • Vivika Väizene Tallinn University of Technology
  • Margit Kolats Tallinn University of Technology
  • Veiko Karu Tallinn University of Technology
  • Jüri Rivaldo Pastarus Tallinn University of Technology
  • Tiit Rahe Tallinn University of Technology
  • Riho Iskül Tallinn University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/etr2013vol1.835

Keywords:

oil shale, losses, mining, extraction,

Abstract

Oil shale utilisation losses reach 70% in some cases. These are closely related to legislation, backfilling and waste rock usage. Much smaller sections include production of oil, electricity and chemicals in which most of the research and development is performed today. Current urgent topics for investigating, testing and developing of oil shale mining related questions are backfilling, mechanical extracting of shale, fine separation, selective separation and optimised drilling and blasting. Reducing oil shale losses will be more actual in the future, because the depth of mining increases and the taxes for resource and pollutants are increasing as well.

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Author Biographies

  • Ingo Valgma, Tallinn University of Technology
    Department of Mining
  • Vivika Väizene, Tallinn University of Technology
    Department of Mining
  • Margit Kolats, Tallinn University of Technology
    Department of Mining
  • Veiko Karu, Tallinn University of Technology
    Department of Mining
  • Jüri Rivaldo Pastarus, Tallinn University of Technology
    Department of Mining
  • Tiit Rahe, Tallinn University of Technology
    Department of Mining
  • Riho Iskül, Tallinn University of Technology
    Department of Mining

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Published

2015-08-06

How to Cite

[1]
I. Valgma, “Reduction of Oil Shale Losses”, ETR, vol. 1, pp. 201–205, Aug. 2015, doi: 10.17770/etr2013vol1.835.