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Fall 2023
The petroleum industry is a major economic driver in Canada; however, toxic and persistent contaminants such as Naphthenic Acid Fraction Compounds (NAFCs) and benzene can be generated during upstream and downstream operations. NAFCs are acutely toxic organics which are solubilized and...
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Spring 2019
To meet the increasing energy demand, there is a growing interest in exploiting the unconventional hydrocarbon resources such as heavy oil, bitumen, and shale oil. Combined electromagnetic (EM) heating and solvent injection is recently proposed to enhance oil recovery. The EM heating, converting...
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Spring 2011
In order to determine the degradation of Naphthenic Acids (NAs) in oil sands process-affected water (OSPW), a series of semi-batch ozonation experiments have been conducted resulting in a maximum reduction of NAs greater than 99%. Compared to the high NAs removal, the reduction of both COD and...
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Evaluating the Biogeochemical and Geotechnical Behavior of Oil Sands Tailings in Pit Lakes and Mitigating Pit Lake Turbidity with Biofilms
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Permanent storage and reclamation of oil sands mine waste (fluid fine tailings, FFT) in pit lakes has been proposed by industry. Pit lakes are considered best practice in terms of geotechnical stability, however, there are numerous challenges and knowledge gaps surrounding this proposed oil sands...
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Measurement of Floc Size and the Influence of Size Distribution on Geotechnical Properties of Oil Sands Fluid Fine Tailings
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Large volumes of fluid fine tailings (FFT) from oil sands mining operations pose difficult engineering challenges because they do not readily dewater and due to their fluid state, require containment. A common approach to reduce FFT volume by water removal is to treat the clay suspension with a...
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Performance Evaluation of Stabilized Base Courses Comprising TSRU Tailings and Bitumen Froth Derived from Alberta Oil Sands
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Sustainable pavement infrastructure is an essential component for the economic development for any country. The quality of materials of pavement layers impacts the long-term performance of pavement structures. Low quality granular materials can result in pavement deformation and reduced pavement...
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Spring 2022
Managing fluid fine tailings (FFT) is a defining challenge of the oil sands industry in Alberta due to low solids content, and extremely slow self-weight consolidation. One technology to increase the solids content of these tailings is centrifugation to produce centrifuged fluid fine tailings...