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Fall 2021
Lignin is one of the most plentiful natural polymer on the earth, produced on a large scale as the waste of pulp and paper industries. The inherent properties of lignin, such as nontoxicity, cost-efficiency, and biocompatibility, make it suitable for the green modification of bulk and surface...
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Synergistic Role of Sodium Hydroxide and Sodium Citrate on Bitumen Slime Coating in Process Water
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Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is generally used as the primary processing aid in the water-based oil sands extraction for the recovery of bitumen. It was found by Syncrude Canada Ltd. that the combined use of sodium hydroxide and sodium citrate could effectively improve the bitumen recovery as compared...
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Fall 2015
The synthesis of functionalized quinolines is described herein. Utilizing condensation reactions, derivatized quinolines were prepared to serve as nitrogen-containing asphaltene islands. Basic halogenated phenylquinolines were synthesized via urea condensations. Highly substituted quinolines...
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Techniques for fast screening of 3D heterogeneous shale barrier configurations and their impacts on SAGD production behavior
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Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) recovery process is strongly impacted by the spatial distributions of heterogeneous shale barriers. Though detailed compositional flow simulators are available for SAGD recovery performance evaluation, the simulation process is usually quite computationally...
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Fall 2021
The lower Athabasca River valley in northeastern Alberta, famous for oil sands mining, was also the site of one of North America largest Ice Age floods. During deglaciation, a large proglacial lake, Lake Agassiz, drained catastrophically through the Athabasca River valley. This catastrophic flood...
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Spring 2022
Naphthenic Froth Treatment (NFT) is employed to remove water droplets and solids from the bitumen froth recovered from the extracted oilsands ore. In the process, bitumen froth is diluted with naphtha to reduce the viscosity and induce density difference to promote settling of water droplets and...
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The Roles of Constituent Minerals and Residual Bitumen in the Filtration of Alberta Oil Sands Tailings
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The dewatering of Alberta oil sands tailings is one of the most challenging problems faced by the oil sands industry. Despite significant efforts in the past several decades, the industry still lacks viable technologies that can quickly dewater and reclaim the oil sands tailings and eliminate...
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Fall 2018
Canada has one of the largest oil reserves in the world, with around 3 trillion ultimate reserves in heavy oil. Even though, one of the major difficulties that Canadian Oil sands industry has faced over time is the transportation of bitumen due to its extremely high viscosity. Having this in...
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Spring 2021
Alberta’s oil sands deposits are the third-largest proven crude oil reserve in the world. However, only 20% of the bitumen in Alberta’s oil sands are shallow enough to be recoverable by surface mining techniques; the remaining 80% can only be extracted using in-situ techniques that involve the...