A new device to determine bitumen extraction from oil sands

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 752-762

  Luthra, Manoj ^a   Lopetinsky, Robert J G ^a   Sanders, R Sean ^b   Nandakumar, K ^a   Masliyah, Jacob H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bitumen digestion; Bitumen recovery; Hydrotransport

Indexed keywords

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SLURRIES;

BATCH EXTRACTION UNIT (BEU); GRAY SCALE INTENSITIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; KINETIC STUDIES;

OIL SANDS;

ASPHALT; OIL; WATER;

BITUMEN; EXTRACTION PROCESS; OIL SAND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; EXTRACTION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINING; SAND; TIME;

EID: 11844260689     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450820414     Document Type: Article

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