Alberta oil sands

MODELING OF BITUMEN OXIDATION AND CRACKING KINETICS USING DATA FROM ALBERTA OIL SANDS... 

The AOSTRA Role in Developing Energy from Alberta Oil Sands... 

The Lurgi-Ruhrgas process is a direct retorting operation which has been proposed for use on the Alberta oil sands. It is the view of the Authority that the next step in the further development of the Lurgi process is to carry out a test run on... 

Masliyah, J. H., Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena, Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1994. (Graduate and undergraduate levels. An excellent introduction to transport processes relevant to applications of electrokinetic phenomena. Most of the material is accessible to undergraduate students. Chapter 12 presents some very practical applications of electrokinetic phenomena of interest to engineers.)... 

The financial support of the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Imperial Oil Ltd. is gratefully acknowledged. 

Strausz, O.P. Proc. 4th UNITAR/UNDP Conf. on Heavy Crude and Tar Sands. Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority, Edmonton, Canada, 1989 Vol. 2, p 607. 

Figure 2. FIMS of the sulfoxide fraction of deasphaltened Athabasca bitumen. Note the prominent peak at 364 daltons, C23H40SO. (Reproduced with permission from Ref. 4. Copyright 1985, Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority.)...

The sulfide fraction of non-biodegraded petroleums usually contains a complement of n-alkyl substituted sulfides, thiolanes and thianes, in addition to the terpenoid class. In the biodegraded Alberta oil sand bitumens, however, n-alkyl substituted sulfides are absent. The two classes of sulfides can be separated by thiourea adduction, the n-alkyl-containing molecules being adducted. Raney nickel reduction of the Bellshill Lake sulfides (1 11 yielded a series of n-alkanes showing a distribution quite similar to that of the n-alkanes in the saturate fraction of this oil. In some oils the thiolane and thiane concentrations are commensurate, e.g. Houmann, Figure 13 in others, the concentration of thianes may be small compared to thiolanes. 

Figure 18. Distribution by carbon number of the monocyclic sulfides in the pyrolysis oil of Athabasca asphaltene as determined by SIR-GC/MS. Peaks labelled 15 correspond to compounds having 15 carbon atoms. Each fragmentogram is normalized to the most abundant peak. The relative intensities of the m/z = 87, 101 and 115 fragmentograms are 9.1 3.1 1.0, respectively. (Reproduced with permission from Ref. 26. Copyright 1988, Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority.)...

Bulmer, J.T. Starr, J. (Eds.), Syncrude Analytical Methods for Oil Sand and Bitumen Processing, Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority Edmonton, Alberta,... 

Gulley, J. MacKinnon, M. Fine Tails Reclamation Utilizing a Wet Landscape Approach in Proc. Fine Tailings Symposium in Oil Sands Our Petroleum Future Conference Liu, J.K. (Ed.), Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority Edmonton, AB, 1993, Paper F23, 24 pp. 

The Molecular Structure and Chemistry of Alberta Oil Sand Asphaltene, ... 

Speight, J.G., and Moschopedis, S.E. 1979. In The Future of Heavy Crude Oil and Tar Sands. ER. Meyer and C.T. Steele (Editors). McGraw-Hill, New York. p. 603. Wallace, D. (Editor). 1988. A Review of Analytical Methods for Bitumens and Heavy Oils. Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Anthority, Edmonton, Alberta,... 

Reimond, S. A. Stasiuk, N. F. Alberta Heavy Oil, Oil Sands and Enhanced Recovery Experimental Pilot Projects Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority Edmonton, Canada, 1992. 

Masliyah, J. H. Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena Technical Publication Series 12 Alberta Oil Sands Information Services, Alberta Energy Edmonton, Canada, 1994. 

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