Water-assisted solvent extraction of bitumen from oil sands

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3032-3038

  Yang, Hongqiang ^a,b   Wang, Yanhong ^a,b   Ding, Mingshan ^a,b   Hu, Bin ^a   Ren, Sili ^a  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; BITUMEN RECOVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; EXTRACTION CONDITIONS; EXTRACTION COSTS; EXTRACTION PROCESS; EXTRACTION SOLVENTS; FINES CONTENT; OIL WATER INTERFACES; PROCESSING INDUSTRY; SOLVENT RECOVERY; SOLVENT-EXTRACTION PROCESS; SURFACE WETTABILITY; WATER LAYERS;

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; NAPHTHAS; OIL SANDS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SOLVENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TOLUENE;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

EID: 84857422427     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie202757k     Document Type: Article

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