Polymer aids for settling and filtration of oil sands tailings

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 403-410

  Wang, Xiaoyan Wang ^a   Feng, Xianhua ^a   Xu, Zhenghe ^a   Masliyah, Jacob H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Al pam; Magnafloc 1011; Oil sand tailings; Tailings filtration; Tailings settling

Indexed keywords

AL-PAM; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; FILTER CAKES; FILTRATION RATES; FINAL MOISTURE CONTENT; MAGNAFLOC 1011; OIL SANDS TAILINGS; TAILINGS POND;

ALUMINUM; FILTRATION; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OIL SANDS; POLYMERS; SAND;

TAILINGS DISPOSAL;

EID: 77953220943     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20283     Document Type: Article

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