Bitumen recovery with oily air bubbles

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 993-997

  Wallwork, Vince ^a   Xu, Zhenghe ^a   Masliyah, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bitumen extraction; Bitumen recovery; Oil sands; Oily bubbles; Tar sands

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; KEROSENE; OIL SANDS; SLURRY PIPELINES;

AIR-KEROSENE BUBBLES; BITUMEN RECOVERY; OIL SAND ORES; OIL SANDS INDUSTRY;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

ASPHALT; KEROSENE; OIL;

BITUMEN; POROUS MEDIUM; SAND;

AIR; ARTICLE; EXTRACTION; OIL INDUSTRY; OIL SHALE; PROCESSING; SAND;

EID: 2942585041     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450810510     Document Type: Article

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