An Evaluation of Accelerated Drying of Reclamation Soil Covers by Convective Airflow

• Main Author: Koehler, Bryan 1989-
• Other Authors: Barbour, Lee, Ferguson, Grant, O'Kane, Mike, Kelln, Chris, Hawkes, Chris, Tabil, Lope G, Elwood, David
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2018
• Subjects: Convective airflow; reclamation; differential pressure; advective airflow; cover system; water balance; Fort McMurray; Canada; Mildred Lake
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8628

The coke beach instrumented watershed is a reclamation cover test site constructed in 2005 on top of petroleum coke at the Mildred Lake mine operated by Syncrude Canada Ltd in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Petroleum coke is a by-product of the oil sands extraction process. The cover system monitoring has...