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- 2Oil Sands
- 1Kerogen
- 1Nano and Microsize
- 1Non-Aqueous Bitumen Extraction
- 1Quantitative X-ray diffraction
- 1Etsell, Thomas (Chemical & Materials Engineering)
- 1Etsell, Thomas H, (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Etsell, Thomas H. (Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept.)
- 1Ivey, Douglas (Chemical & Materials Engineering)
- 1Ivey, Douglas G, (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Ivey, Douglas G. (Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept.)
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Fall 2013
The high degree of variability of oil sands ores can be attributed to a mixture of different geological end members, i.e., estuarine sand, estuarine clay, marine sand and marine clay. This study focused on the mineralogy, especially of clay minerals, and toluene insoluble organic matter, referred...
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Characterization of Clay Minerals in the Athabasca Oil Sands in Water Extraction and Nonaqueous Solvent Extraction Processes
DownloadFall 2011
Production of oil from the second largest oil deposit in the world, i.e., the Alberta oil sands containing approximately 13% of total proven oil reserves in the world (169.9 billion barrels), has been shown to be significantly influenced by clay minerals. Clay minerals in particular play a key...
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Role of Nano and Microsize Clay Minerals in Non-Aqueous Bitumen Extraction from Alberta Oil Sands
DownloadFall 2018
The current commercial aqueous extraction processes produce large amounts of tailings and is the major obstacle to recovery of bitumen from the oil sands. Solvent-based bitumen extraction is an alternative process, due to its high bitumen recovery and dry solids/tailings (gangue). During...