Patent ID: 9550943
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: C10G,C12M,C12P

Claim:
1. A method for recovering one or more hydrocarbons from a specific feedstock combination, the specific feedstock combination including fractured oil shale and one or more of tar sand, coal and cellulous, the method comprising: training microorganisms in a biomedium to metabolize the specific feedstock combination, wherein the microorganisms comprise slime mold; loading the specific feedstock combination into a rotatable container; treating the feedstock in the rotatable container with the biomedium comprising the trained microorganisms; forming an essentially liquid mixture from the feedstock combination by a progressive breaking of the feedstock combination by rotary tumbling the feedstock and by the concurrent metabolization of the feedstock by the trained microorganisms while being tumbled in the rotatable container; and separating the essentially liquid mixture into one or more hydrocarbons, water, the biomedium, and residual inorganic material.