| Phase: |
Theme |
| Theme: | Heavy Oil - Non-Aqueous Recovery (T08) |
| Status: | Active |
| Start Date: | 2017-04-01 |
| End Date: | 2025-09-30 |
| Principal Investigator |
| Liu, Qi |
Project Overview
Nonaqueus extraction (NAE) of oil sands can eliminate the use of fresh water in recovering bitumen from oil sands. However, the extracted bitumen must be free of water and mineral/clay solids so that it can be used directly as a refinery feed without the need of upgrading.
This project is a systematic investigation of various physical and chemical methods aimed at cleaning up the NAE bitumen recovered from oil sands to meet this target while maintaining high bitumen recovery.
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