Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Non-aqueous extraction of bitumen from oil sands
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Application No.: US16811929Application Date: 2020-03-06
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Publication No.: US11512256B2Publication Date: 2022-11-29
- Inventor: Iftikhar Huq , Ali Abbaspour , Brian Doucette , Alexander Hyndman , Billy James Rideout
- Applicant: SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
- Applicant Address: CA Calgary
- Assignee: SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
- Current Assignee: SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Calgary
- Agency: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
- Main IPC: C10G1/04
- IPC: C10G1/04

Abstract:
A non-aqueous process for producing bitumen from oil sands is provided, and includes contacting oil sands and solvent to produce solvent diluted bitumen and solvent diluted tailings. The solvent diluted bitumen is subjected to a first fines separation stage that produces an overflow solvent diluted bitumen stream with residual fines that is subjected to a second fines separation stage to remove residual fines and produce a solvent diluted bitumen stream, which is subjected to solvent recovery. The fines streams are subjected to washing to produce washed tailings and solvent wash liquor comprising solvent and bitumen. Another non-aqueous process for producing bitumen from oil sands is provided, and includes subjecting oil sands to solvent extraction, including displacing the oil sands material and a solbit counter-currently and horizontally, and recovering a bitumen enriched solbit stream which is subjected to fines separation and subjecting the solvent diluted bitumen stream to solvent recovery.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210047569A1 NON-AQUEOUS EXTRACTION OF BITUMEN FROM OIL SANDS Public/Granted day:2021-02-18
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