Treatment of an in situ oil sands produced water by polymeric membranes

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 57, Issue 32, 2016, Pages 14869-14887

  Hayatbakhsh, Mahsa ^a   Sadrzadeh, Mohtada ^a   Pernitsky, David ^b   Bhattacharjee, Subir ^c   Hajinasiri, Javad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SUNCOR ENERGY INC   (Canada)

^c Water Planet Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane processes; Nanofiltration; Oil sands; Produced water treatment; Reverse osmosis; SAGD; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

BITUMEN; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; OIL SAND; POLYMER; REVERSE OSMOSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84937810002     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2015.1069216     Document Type: Article

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