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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 6Bitumen extraction
- 5Oil sands
- 1Beach slope
- 1Bitumen droplet size
- 1Bitumen droplets coalescence
- 1Bubble-particle attachment
- 1Chalaturnyk, Richard (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Jacobe Masliyah (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Kumar, Amit (Mechanical engineering)
- 1Liu, Qi (Chemical and Material Engineering)
- 1Liu, Qingxia (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Masliyah, Jacob (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Spring 2013
As one of the most critical steps to recover valuable particles from a slurry using flotation, knowledge of the drainage of the thin liquid film between an air bubble and a solid surface is required. The main focus of this thesis is to develop and use an integrated thin film drainage appratus...
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Spring 2014
Environmental concerns about water-based extraction necessitate the development of an alternative non-aqueous extraction method. One of the challenges that any non-aqueous extraction process is encountered is the elimination of suspended fine solids from solvent-diluted bitumen. This study...
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Fall 2010
A study was conducted to evaluate the properties and processes influencing the rate and magnitude of volume decrease and strength gain for oil sand fine tailings resulting from a change in bitumen extraction process (caustic versus non-caustic) and the effect of adding a coagulant to caustic fine...
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Spring 2021
Hot water extraction technique has been applied to extract bitumen from oil sands for decades. With the challenge of low oil prices, achieving higher recovery and efficient production becomes more urgent. In recent years, the overall recovery and froth quality have been improved significantly...
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Role of Sodium Hydroxide in Bitumen Extraction: Production of Natural Surfactants and Slime Coating
DownloadSpring 2015
Alkaline environment by addition of NaOH in bitumen extraction process often shows a positive effect on bitumen recovery from Athabasca oil sands by mining-extraction method. NaOH ionizes organic acids in the bitumen to produce surfactants. These species are essential for bitumen liberation....
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Techno-economic assessment of solvent-based bitumen extraction technologies including in-situ electromagnetic heating
DownloadFall 2021
The oil sands are a vast fossil fuel resource that supports the worldwide energy supply. The bitumen found in fossil deposits is too viscous to flow under reservoir conditions. For this reason, steam-based processes such as steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) are used to increase the reservoir...