The efficient recovery of bitumen, a highly viscous form of crude oil, poses significant technical and economic challenges. In recent years, researchers have developed advanced experimental techniques ...

Metso has expanded its solvent extraction offering with a wider capacity range and improved features and is now also introducing the VSF X solvent extraction plant with extended scope. The modular VSF ...

The microwave-assisted solvent extraction method for the determination of the salt content in bitumen samples represents an efficient alternative to the rather time and cost consuming established ...

In 2016 the government turned its attention to bitumen – also known as asphalt, which is used in road-surfacing – placing the country’s large standalone deposits of the hydrocarbon mixture at the ...

Metso Outotec has signed an agreement with the Canadian battery materials company First Cobalt Corporation to deliver Planet Positive solvent extraction technology to their cobalt refinery expansion ...