Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Extraction of oil sand bitumen with two solvents
- Patent Title (中): 用两种溶剂萃取油砂沥青
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Application No.: US13222936Application Date: 2011-08-31
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Publication No.: US08858786B2Publication Date: 2014-10-14
- Inventor: Xin Alex Wu , George Burton Jones , George Cymerman
- Applicant: Xin Alex Wu , George Burton Jones , George Cymerman
- Applicant Address: CA Fort McMurray
- Assignee: Syncrude Canada Ltd
- Current Assignee: Syncrude Canada Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: CA Fort McMurray
- Agency: Bennett Jones LLP
- Priority: CA2714236 20100901
- Main IPC: C10G1/04
- IPC: C10G1/04

Abstract:
A process for extracting bitumen from oil sand using a combination of heavy solvent and light solvent is provided comprising digesting mined oil sand with a high-flash point heavy solvent (HS) to produce a dense oil sand slurry; mixing the dense slurry with a light solvent (LS) to give a heavy solvent to light solvent (HS/LS) mass ratio of about 70/30 to about 50/50 and subjecting the thinned oil sand slurry to a first stage solid-liquid separation to produce a first liquids stream containing bitumen and a first solids stream.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120048782A1 EXTRACTION OF OIL SAND BITUMEN WITH TWO SOLVENTS Public/Granted day:2012-03-01
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