Improving bitumen recovery from poor processing oil sands using microbial pretreatment

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7712-7720

  Ding, Ming Shan ^a,b   Jia, Wei Hong ^a   Lv, Zhi Feng ^a   Ren, Si Li ^a  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ASPHALTENES; BACTERIOLOGY; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; EXTRACTION; FLOTATION; OIL SANDS; OIL SHALE; ORE ANALYSIS; ORES; RECOVERY; RESINS; WETTING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSURFACTANT PRODUCTION; BITUMEN EXTRACTION; BITUMEN VISCOSITY; EXTRACTION PROCESS; MICROBIAL TREATMENT; RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; WATER-BASED EXTRACTION PROCESS;

ORE TREATMENT;

EID: 84949114822     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef5018785     Document Type: Article

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