Syncrude Canada Ltd. Reports
The Syncrude Joint Venture began in 1964, with company-sponsored Research and Development (R&D) activities focused on the Athabasca Oil Sands of northeastern Alberta. Mining at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake site began in 1977, and Syncrude has continued a robust and comprehensive R&D program since that time. The goal of Syncrude R&D is to contribute to the body of knowledge that supports the responsible development of Alberta’s oil sands resource, including minimizing environmental impacts and maintaining the ecological integrity of the area in which we operate. Much of Syncrude’s environmental R&D is done collaboratively with Universities, and results are available in peer-reviewed journals. There is also a large body of internally-conducted research work, including research reports, consultant reports and regulatory submissions. Syncrude is excited to partner with the University of Alberta to make more of its environmental R&D work publicly accessible. We hope this information will be helpful to the scientific community and Albertans who are interested in the sound ecological management of Alberta’s natural resources. This collection includes Environmental Research Monographs and a Professional paper series from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, as well as more recent reports. We are committed to adding to this collection as new reports and information become available. Each report contains usage permissions. If you want to know more about Syncrude, visit https://www.suncor.com/en-ca/what-we-do/oil-sands/syncrude
Items in this Collection
- 15Syncrude Canada Ltd.
- 3Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance
- 3Djurfors, S.
- 3Grant, W.
- 3McCart, P.
- 3Rowell, M.J.
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1973
The study reported here was initiated on July 26, 1971, to provide ecological baseline information on Beaver Creek. Field surveys were carried out from August 7th to August 24th. Of particular interest to this study was the acquisition of quantitative data on fisheries populations as a means of...
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1985
Migration watches were conducted from 21 August to 15 October 1984 near the site of Syncrude Canada Ltd.' s bitumen mining, extraction and upgrading development north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. These watches were undertaken to complement studies of birds using the waterbodies in the area of the...
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1977
The conservation equations governing buoyant plume rise are solved for the case of non-uniform wind conditions. A simple power law is selected to represent the actual wind profile. Analytical solutions are presented both for uniformly stable and neutral atmospheric conditions. These solutions...
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1979
The random fluctuations of concentration levels in a plume is studied using a wind tunnel simulation of dispersion in the neutrally stable atmospheric boundary layer. A fast response hot - film probe is developed and used to measure high frequency fluctuations of helium tracer concentration in...
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Developing a Functional Approach to Assessment of Land Capability: Utilizing Ecosystem Water and Carbon Nutrient Fluxes as Integrated Measures of Reclamation Performance
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Straker, Justin R., Carey, Sean K., Petrone, Richard M., Baker, Trevor D., Strilesky, Stacey L.
This report synthesizes over 15 years of research (and 64 site-years of data) on water use, carbon assimilation, and associated ecosystem development on reclaimed oil-sands-mine sites and on non-mine reference sites. A key feature of this research is the use of eddy-covariance methods to make...
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1980
The interaction between the turbulent wake, created by a tailings pond dike and the low level emissions at the Syncrude Tar Sands Plant has been investigated using wind tunnel model simulation. At the large Reynolds numbers experienced by model and full-scale dike the flow remains attached to the...
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1980
Maddukuri, C.S., Slawson, P.R., Davidson, G.A.
The plume rise, spread and supporting meterological and source data given in Slawson et al (1978) were further analyzed in order to provide a more suitable data set upon which a site-tuned plume dispersion model could be developed. This dispersion model was considered to consist of a buoyant...