Projects (Completed/in progress)
• Non-caustic based bitumen extraction from Athabasca oil sands
• Bitumen extraction from oil sands with much reduced water use and fluid fine tailings
• Minimizing bitumen loss to coarse tailings in primary separation cells
• Improving secondary bitumen froth quality from processing oil sands middling streams
• Enhanced flocculation of oil sands mature fine tailings by synergy of dual polymers with
coarse-to-fines ratio
• Effect of liquid flow/hydrodynamic shear on stability of bitumen-bubble attachment
• Chemical evaluations for flotation and dewatering
• Formulation of smart dispersants for mineral/coal/oil sands flotation
• Develop and synth
• Enhanced flocculation of oil sands mature fine tailings by synergy of dual polymers with
coarse-to-fines ratio
• Effect of liquid flow/hydrodynamic shear on stability of bitumen-bubble attachment
• Chemical evaluations for flotation and dewatering
• Formulation of smart dispersants for mineral/coal/oil sands flotation
• Develop and synthesize smart flocculants for dewatering of tailings/solid suspensions
• Seawater-based cleaning of oil contaminated soils and oil spills
• Nano-bubble technology applied to mineral/coal/oil sands processing
• Dynamic bubble nucleation on bitumen and hydrophobic minerals
• Evaluation and improvement of client’s process flowsheets
• Process modelling and simulation.