Oil Sands
Separating the Sands: Karl Clark and Early Oil Sands Research in Alberta
... Unlike Clark, a number of private developers and government officials adopted a hurried approach to developing the oil sands for commercial opportunities from the 1920’s and onwards. Clark developed a ...
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Canadian Oil Sands Investments: FOCUS on a Controversial Energy Source
... the oil sands projects in terms of securing Canada’s energy future, many plans for developing renewable energy sources could be put on hold or take a back seat to oil sands extraction and ...
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Treatment of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water Using Activated and Surface Modified Petroleum Coke for Organic Compounds Recovery
... Diphenylacetic acid (99%, CAS Number: 117-34-0) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Canada. 2-naphthoic acid (98%, CAS Number: 93-09-4) was purchased from VWR Company, Canada. OSPW was obtained from Alberta’s oil ...
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Carbon sources, microbial community production, and respiration in constructed wetlands of the Alberta, Canada oil sands mining area.
... metaphyton, macrophytes, sediment, and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) were determined in 9 wetlands of varying ages and physico-chemical properties. Stable isotope compositions o f dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and ...
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Characterization of oil sands naphthenic acids by negative ion electrospray ionization mass spectrometry : influence of acidic versus basic transfer solvent
... Oil sands process-affected water; Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance; Orbitrap; mass.. spectrometry; environmental monitoring; naphthenic acids..[r] ...
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Effects of gamma irradiation treatment of oil sands process material on zooplankton accrual and early community development in field based mesocosms
... The application of GI as a treatment method offers multiple potential benefits such as the ability to treat slurry, the elimination of the need for particle free water, and the ability of GI to form hydroxyl radicals ...
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Sediment oxygen demand and sediment nutrient content of reclaimed wetlands in the oil sands region of Northeastern Alberta
... Another major nutrient, nitrogen, did not differ significantly among wetland classes. Consequently, nitrogen variation among wetland classes cannot account for the differences in submergent macrophyte biomass. Ammonium ...
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A study on chemical stabilization of Oil Sands Mature Fine Tailings
... The undrained shear strength of MFT samples was evaluated using the fall cone method. This method was commonly adopted to measure the strength properties of geomaterials, e.g., marine clays (Rajasekaran and Rao, 2004), ...
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Electrokinetic Consolidation of Oil Sands Tailings: An Experimental and Numerical Study
... Oil sands, which are unconventional petroleum reserves, are partially consolidated sandstone or loose sand deposits of ...conventional oil, bitumen has high density and viscosity. Enormous capacity ...
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Treatment of Synthetic Oil Sands Tailing Water with Activated Carbon
... tar sands has thus far generated approximately 840 billion liters of oil sands process affected water (OSPW), currently being stored in tailing ponds that cover around 170 km 2 ; an area larger than ...
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Sensitising Green Criminology to Procedural Environmental Justice: A Case Study of First Nation Consultation in the Canadian Oil Sands
... when oil sands projects within the remit of a Treaty area could no longer be approved before the proponent had consulted with First ...the oil sands as it extended the duty to a Treaty ...
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Moran et al Oil Sands Technology to Meet the Challenges of New World Sustainable Tailings Management.pdf
... Adapted from: Burkus, Z., “GHG Emissions from Oil Sands Tailings Ponds: Overview and Modelling Based on Fermentable Substrates. Part II: Modeling of GHG Emissions from Tailings Ponds Based on Fermentable ...
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Regeneration potential of activated petroleum coke for application in oil sands process-affected water
... Cost effective regeneration of spent adsorbent is crucial for large scale application of adsorp- tion as a viable separation process. While adsorption studies are abundant in literature, sys- tematic and comprehensive ...
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The moral microfoundations of institutional complexity: Sustainability implementation as compromise-making at an oil sands company
... In an industry facing major environmental controversy, OilsandsCo had been, for many years, defining its mission as ‘operating our business in a way that enhances social and economic benefits to society while minimizing ...
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Yao et al Dewatering Behavior of Fine Oil Sands Tailings - A Summary of Laboratory Results.pdf
... Column settling tests and oedometer tests § Objectives Ø Investigate the sedimentation and consolidation behaviour of fluid fine oil sands tailings Ø Measure the hydraulic conductivity o[r] ...
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Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) satellite observations of ammonia, methanol, formic acid, and carbon monoxide over the Canadian oil sands: validation and model evaluation
... dian oil sands region in Alberta, ...sticky oil often mixed with sand, water, or clay) located near the surface may be surface mined, but the deeper deposits need to be extracted through different ...
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The Economics of Financial Securities for Environmental Obligations and Their Impact in Royalty Revenues from Alberta Oil Sands in North America
... the Oil Sands mineable areas by creating a clear yet favourable regulatory environment for national and international operators without compromising the environmental challenges left to the government by ...
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Airborne lidar measurements of aerosol and ozone above the Canadian oil sands region
... the oil sands industry is shown in ...the oil sands industry (distances of 25 to 75 km along the flight track) significant amounts of aerosol were observed to be mixed to heights of up to ...
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Evaluating the biogeochemistry and microbial function in the Athabasca Oil Sands region: Understanding natural baselines for reclamation end-points
... Athabasca Oil Sands and its extensive mining operations, these studies remain severely lacking, in that there is little to no knowledge on the natural biogeochemical signature of the region, outside the ...
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Application of Treated Oil Sands Drill Cuttings Waste in Micropiles Construction
... the oil sands industry and their harmful effect on the environment, different technologies have been applied for recycling or reusing oil sands waste in construction ...Treated oil ...
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