Investigation of Mass Transfer Effects on Naphtha Surrogates Partitioning from Bitumen to Aqueous Phases in Athabascan Oil Sands Tailings Ponds

• Main Author: Ling, Avery
• Other Authors: Chemical Engineering, Ramsay, Juliana, Ramsay, Bruce, Mumford, Kevin
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Bitumen; Oil sands tailing ponds; Naphtha; Greenhouse gas emissions; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Mass transfer; Athabasca; Mature fine tailings; Clark hot water extraction process; Spectrum Range; Athabascan
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1974/31811

The Athabascan oil sands deposits are one of the largest in the world. They have been the backbone of the Albertan economy and a major source of energy and petrochemical products in North America for several decades. Approximately half of the region’s bitumen production is generated from open-pit mi...