Several solvents had been used to extract the SARA (Saturate, Aromatic, Resin and Asphaltene) constituents of bitumen. The quantification of such extracts also abounds in open literature but in this ...

Hybrid bitumen extraction (HBE) at ambient conditions has potential, as an alternative to the currently used modified Clark hot water extraction (CHWE), to reduce thermal energy intensity and ...

1 Department of Chemistry, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. 2 Department of Chemical Sciences, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Nigeria. Several solvents had been used to extract the ...

The project studies and projects a realistic representation of the fluctuations of pressure and temperature within a defined system if thermal recovery operations of hot steam injection and bitumen ...

Using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method, scientists have learned to noninvasively determine the composition of petroleum bitumen in half an hour in the core itself (sample). The technology ...

Several waterless extraction methods being piloted that use less energy, produce fewer emissions EDMONTON—Oilsands producers have been under siege for years, with environmentalists, politicians and ...

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Water-based extraction process (WBEP) has been successfully applied to bitumen recovery from Athabasca oil sand ore deposits in Alberta. In this process, two essential steps are involved. The bitumen ...

Researchers at the University of Calgary are promising dramatic improvements in the costs and environmental performance of the oil sands with technology they hope to perfect at a new research centre.

BENIN—THE Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, has urged the Federal Government to halt the planned commencement of bitumen exploitation in the bitumen belt stretching ...