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Spring 2023
Bitumen is most commonly extracted from oil sands using the Clark hot water extraction process that produce slurry residues, called tailings. Sand particles in tailings quickly settle and produce mature fine tailings (MFT), which are stored in large tailing ponds. Currently, tailing ponds cover...
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Spring 2015
One of the challenges that Vapor Extraction process might be conducted is the unpredictable precipitation of asphaltene from solvent-diluted bitumen that can cause process problems during bitumen extraction in porous media. The objective of this study was to investigate the rheological behaviour...