公开(公告)号：US10226717B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-12

申请号：US14113143

申请日：2012-04-04

申请人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Thomas Hann

发明人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Thomas Hann

IPC分类号： B01D3/06 ,  B01D1/16 ,  B01D1/20 ,  C10G33/06 ,  C10G33/00 ,  C10G1/04

摘要： A tailings solvent recovery unit (TSRU) recovers a solvent from a solvent diluted tailings and includes a separation apparatus which has a flash vessel, tailings outlet, solvent outlet and an inlet spray system for supplying the diluted tailings to the flash vessel. The spray nozzle system may include multiple nozzles arranged around the periphery of the flash vessel for flash-atomization over its cross-section of the flashing chamber, a nozzle sized and configured to provide choked flow of the diluted tailings, multiple nozzles each being operable in an on/off mode to regulate a total feed flow, or multiple nozzles associated with a distributor and multiple feed conduits.

公开(公告)号：US09207019B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-08

申请号：US14111870

申请日：2012-03-27

申请人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Edward Casper Degraaf, Jr. ,  Kenneth Ellard Corbett

发明人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Edward Casper Degraaf, Jr. ,  Kenneth Ellard Corbett

IPC分类号： C10G1/00 ,  F28D1/02 ,  C10G1/04 ,  F28D21/00

CPC分类号： F28D1/02 ,  C10G1/047 ,  C10G2300/1033 ,  C10G2300/302 ,  C10G2300/4075 ,  C10G2300/4081 ,  C10G2300/44 ,  C10G2300/80 ,  C10G2300/805 ,  F28D21/0001

摘要： A system and process for recovering heat from a bitumen froth treatment plant use a sealed closed-loop heat transfer circuit. The system has a heat removal exchanger associated with the plant and receiving hot froth treatment process stream; heat recovery exchanger; the circuit; and an oil sands process fluid line. The circuit includes piping circulating heat exchange media having uncontaminated and low fouling properties. The piping includes a supply line to the heat removal exchanger and a return line for providing heated media to the recovery exchanger. The circuit has a pump for pressurizing the heat exchange media; a pressure regulator for regulating pressure of the media. The pump and the pressure maintain the media under pressure in liquid phase. The oil sands process fluid is heated producing a cooled media for reuse in the heat removal exchanger. High and low temperature heat removal exchangers can be used.

摘要翻译： 用于从沥青处理装置回收热量的系统和方法使用密封的闭环热传递电路。 该系统具有与工厂相关的除热交换器，并接收热泡沫处理工艺流; 热回收交换器; 电路; 和油砂加工流体管线。 电路包括具有未污染和低污染性能的管道循环热交换介质。 管道包括到排热交换器的供应管线和用于向回收交换器提供加热介质的回流管线。 电路具有用于对热交换介质加压的泵; 用于调节介质压力的压力调节器。 泵和压力使介质在液相中保持压力。 油砂加工流体被加热，产生冷却的介质以便在除热交换器中重新使用。 可以使用高温和低温除热交换器。

公开(公告)号：US20140151269A1

公开(公告)日：2014-06-05

申请号：US14114859

申请日：2012-05-02

申请人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Thomas Hann

发明人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Thomas Hann

IPC分类号： C10G1/04

CPC分类号： C10G1/04 ,  C10G1/047 ,  C10G33/00 ,  C10G2300/1033

摘要： A method for pre-treating bitumen froth for mixing with solvent for froth treatment includes heating the froth to a froth-solvent mixing temperature below the solvent flash temperature and suitably high to provide reduced bitumen viscosity sufficiently low for complete mixing of the solvent and the froth prior to introduction into a separation apparatus. A method of improving energy use in froth treatment includes reducing heat provided to the solvent, increasing heat provided to the froth prior to adding the solvent to reduce bitumen viscosity and adding the temperature-reduced solvent to the heated froth. A froth treatment separation process includes trim heating first and second solvent streams to adjust the first and second stage separation temperatures.

摘要翻译： 用于预处理沥青泡沫以与用于泡沫处理的溶剂混合的方法包括将泡沫加热至低于溶剂闪蒸温度的泡沫 - 溶剂混合温度并适当地高以提供足够低的沥青粘度以使溶剂和泡沫完全混合 在引入分离装置之前。 改善泡沫处理能量的方法包括减少提供给溶剂的热量，在加入溶剂之前增加提供给泡沫的热量以降低沥青粘度，并将减温溶剂加入到加热的泡沫中。 泡沫处理分离过程包括修整加热第一和第二溶剂流以调节第一和第二阶段分离温度。

公开(公告)号：US20200332198A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-22

申请号：US16811211

申请日：2020-03-06

申请人： Xiaoli Yang ,  Shawn Van Der Merwe

发明人： Xiaoli Yang ,  Shawn Van Der Merwe

IPC分类号： C10G1/04

摘要： Techniques provided herein relate to regulating at least one operating parameter of a paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) operation and controlling the quality of the produced bitumen in response to a determined concentration of at least one residual metal in a PFT process stream. Determination of the residual metal concentration is based on acquired NIR spectral measurements of the PFT process stream. An alkaline agent dosage in primary extraction operation can be for example regulated in response to a difference between a determined calcium concentration and a calcium concentration specification.

公开(公告)号：US09587177B2

公开(公告)日：2017-03-07

申请号：US14114323

申请日：2012-04-19

申请人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Thomas Hann ,  Benjamin John Grappolini

发明人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Thomas Hann ,  Benjamin John Grappolini

IPC分类号： C10G1/04

CPC分类号： C10G1/047 ,  C10G1/045 ,  C10G2300/206 ,  C10G2300/4081 ,  C10G2300/44 ,  C10G2300/807

摘要： More particularly, the model was a dynamic simulation built in HYSYS™ v7.1. The component slate was simplified and selected to give a vapor and two liquid phases, and have the ability to measure an S/B ratio. All the unit operations were included and modeled as best fit within HYSYS™. Pumps were all modelled as standard HYSYS™ centrifugal pumps with performance curves, settlers were modelled as vertical 3-phase vessels with internal weir enabled—the overflow side of the weir is used to simulate the overflow vessels on the settlers. All proposed controllers were included with generic tuning parameters, which control the system process variable (PV) to match a set point (SP). The control algorithm incorporated master PV controllers such as S/B ratio to relate froth and solvent flows and maintain relative material balance relationship between the process streams involved. In this specific simulation, the solvent flows were assigned a slave relationship relative to the bitumen flow; that is, the solvent controller SP was reset based on the bitumen froth flow and the master S/B ratio.

摘要翻译： 更具体地说，该模型是内置于HYSYS™v7.1中的动态仿真。 组分板岩被简化和选择以产生蒸气和两个液相，并且具有测量S / B比的能力。 所有的单元操作都被包括在HYSYS™中，并且被最佳地建模。 泵都被建模为具有性能曲线的标准HYSYS™离心泵，沉降器被建模为具有启用内部堰的垂直三相容器 - 堰的溢流侧用于模拟沉降器上的溢流容器。 所有提出的控制器都包含在通用调谐参数中，其控制系统过程变量（PV）以匹配设定点（SP）。 控制算法结合了诸如S / B比率的主光伏控制器来关联泡沫和溶剂流，并保持所涉及的过程流之间的相对物料平衡关系。 在这个具体的模拟中，溶剂流被分配为相对于沥青流的从属关系; 也就是说，溶剂控制器SP基于沥青泡沫流量和主S / B比率被复位。

公开(公告)号：US09546323B2

公开(公告)日：2017-01-17

申请号：US13982066

申请日：2012-01-25

申请人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Tom Hann

发明人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Tom Hann

IPC分类号： C10G1/04 ,  B03B9/02 ,  C08L95/00 ,  B03D1/24

CPC分类号： C10G1/04 ,  B03B9/02 ,  B03D1/247 ,  B03D2203/006 ,  C08L95/00 ,  C10G1/045 ,  C10G2300/205 ,  C10G2300/206 ,  C10G2300/4081 ,  Y02P70/34

摘要： A process for regionalization of mining bitumen-containing oil sands ore for extraction and conversion to produce dry bitumen comprises operating multiple separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities or in situ thermal recovery facilities, to produce separate bitumen froth streams; operating a regional paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub for receiving a portion of each of the separate bitumen froth streams and treating the bitumen froth streams to produce the dry bitumen; optionally providing a portion of the dry bitumen stream to the bitumen upgrading facility and another portion of the dry bitumen stream to a bitumen market pipeline or remote upgrading facility; and optionally comprising regionalization of water distribution where by-product waters are recovered from the PFT hub and the upgrading facilities and distributed to the mining and extraction facilities for use as extraction processing water to produce the bitumen froth streams.

摘要翻译： 含采矿沥青的含油油砂矿石的开采和转化生产干沥青的过程包括经营多个独立的油砂矿石开采和提炼设施或原位热回收设施，生产单独的沥青泡沫料流; 操作区域石蜡泡沫处理（PFT）中心，用于接收每个单独的沥青泡沫流的一部分并处理沥青泡沫流以产生干燥的沥青; 任选地将一部分干沥青流提供给沥青改质设施，另一部分将干沥青流提供给沥青市场管道或远程升级设施; 并且可选地包括从PFT中心和升级设施回收副产物水的分配区域化，并分配给采矿和提取设施用作提取处理水以产生沥青泡沫料流。

公开(公告)号：US20140083911A1

公开(公告)日：2014-03-27

申请号：US14001660

申请日：2012-02-01

申请人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Ilie Cheta

发明人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Ilie Cheta

IPC分类号： C10G21/28 ,  C10G1/04

CPC分类号： C10G21/28 ,  C10G1/04 ,  C10G1/042 ,  C10G1/045 ,  C10G2300/206 ,  C10G2300/44

摘要： A paraffinic solvent recovery process for treating high paraffin diluted bitumen includes supplying the latter to flashing apparatus; separating into flashed paraffinic solvent and diluted bitumen underflow; and returning a portion of the underflow as returned diluted bitumen into the high paraffin diluted bitumen prior to introduction into the flashing apparatus, at temperature and amount to shift asphaltene precipitation equilibrium to reduce asphaltene precipitation. The process includes pre-heating the high paraffin diluted bitumen by transferring heat from hot dry bitumen, flashed paraffinic solvent and/or a portion of diluted bitumen underflow. Flashed paraffinic solvent may contain residual light end bitumen contaminants that increase asphaltenes solubility and the process may include removing contaminants to produce reusable paraffinic solvent at given solvent-to-bitumen ratio range to maintain given asphaltene precipitation. The process may also include a bitumen fractionation column producing hot dry bitumen underflow containing at most 0.5 wt % paraffinic solvent.

摘要翻译： 用于处理高石蜡稀释沥青的石蜡溶剂回收方法包括将后者提供给闪光装置; 分离成闪烁的石蜡溶剂和稀释的沥青下溢; 并且在引入闪蒸装置之前，将一部分下溢作为返回的稀释沥青返回到高石蜡稀释的沥青中，温度和量使沥青质沉淀平衡移动以减少沥青质沉淀。 该方法包括通过从热的干沥青，闪蒸的石蜡溶剂和/或一部分稀释的沥青下溢中传递热来预先加热高石蜡稀释的沥青。 闪烁的石蜡溶剂可能含有残留的轻馏分沥青污染物，其增加沥青质溶解度，并且该方法可以包括去除污染物以在给定的溶剂 - 沥青比范围内产生可重复使用的链烷烃溶剂以维持给定的沥青质沉淀。 该方法还可以包括沥青分馏塔产生含有至多0.5wt％链烷烃溶剂的热干沥青下溢。

公开(公告)号：US20140076785A1

公开(公告)日：2014-03-20

申请号：US14115713

申请日：2012-05-02

申请人： Blair James Penner ,  Shawn Van Der Merwe

发明人： Blair James Penner ,  Shawn Van Der Merwe

IPC分类号： C10G1/04

CPC分类号： C10G1/047 ,  B01D21/267 ,  B03D2203/006 ,  C10G1/045

摘要： A heat and water integration process for an oil sands operation includes subjecting warm oil sands tailings to thickening to produce thickened tailings and warm water overflow; subjecting the warm water overflow to direct steam injection (DSI) to produce steam heated thickener water; providing the steam heated thickener water to a unit of the oil sand operation; and producing the warm oil sands tailings from the oil sands operation. The oil sand operation unit may be an oil sand ore preparation unit and/or a primary separation unit, for example. The heated thickener water can replace water taken from pond inventories. The DSI may use excess, low quality, wet, low pressure and/or blow-down steam. The process enables improved heat and water usage in oil sands processing.

摘要翻译： 用于油砂操作的热水集成过程包括使温油砂尾矿变稠，产生增稠的尾矿和温水溢流; 经受温水溢流引导蒸汽注射（DSI）以产生蒸汽加热的增稠剂水; 将蒸汽加热的增稠剂水提供给油砂操作的一个单位; 并从油砂作业中生产温暖的油砂尾矿。 油砂操作单元可以是例如油砂矿石制备单元和/或主分离单元。 加热的增稠水可以取代池塘库存中的水。 DSI可能使用过量，低质量，潮湿，低压和/或吹扫的蒸汽。 该过程可以改善油砂加工中的热和水使用。

公开(公告)号：US20130313886A1

公开(公告)日：2013-11-28

申请号：US13982066

申请日：2012-01-25

申请人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Tom Hann

发明人： Shawn Van Der Merwe ,  Tom Hann

IPC分类号： C10G1/04 ,  B03B9/02

CPC分类号： C10G1/04 ,  B03B9/02 ,  B03D1/247 ,  B03D2203/006 ,  C08L95/00 ,  C10G1/045 ,  C10G2300/205 ,  C10G2300/206 ,  C10G2300/4081 ,  Y02P70/34

摘要： A process for regionalization of mining bitumen-containing oil sands ore for extraction and conversion to produce dry bitumen comprises operating multiple separate oil sands ore mining and extraction facilities or in situ thermal recovery facilities, to produce separate bitumen froth streams; operating a regional paraffinic froth treatment (PFT) hub for receiving a portion of each of the separate bitumen froth streams and treating the bitumen froth streams to produce the dry bitumen; optionally providing a portion of the dry bitumen stream to the bitumen upgrading facility and another portion of the dry bitumen stream to a bitumen market pipeline or remote upgrading facility; and optionally comprising regionalization of water distribution where by-product waters are recovered from the PFT hub and the upgrading facilities and distributed to the mining and extraction facilities for use as extraction processing water to produce the bitumen froth streams.

摘要翻译： 含采矿沥青的含油油砂矿石的开采和转化生产干沥青的过程包括经营多个独立的油砂矿石开采和提炼设施或原位热回收设施，生产单独的沥青泡沫料流; 操作区域石蜡泡沫处理（PFT）中心，用于接收每个单独的沥青泡沫流的一部分并处理沥青泡沫流以产生干燥的沥青; 任选地将一部分干沥青流提供给沥青改质设施，另一部分将干沥青流提供给沥青市场管道或远程升级设施; 并且可选地包括从PFT中心和升级设施回收副产物水的分配区域化，并分配给采矿和提取设施用作提取处理水以产生沥青泡沫料流。

公开(公告)号：US09791170B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-17

申请号：US14006667

申请日：2012-03-19

申请人： Shawn Van Der Merwe

发明人： Shawn Van Der Merwe

IPC分类号： C10G1/04 ,  F24H9/00 ,  B01D21/00 ,  B01D21/26

CPC分类号： F24H9/00 ,  B01D21/0045 ,  B01D21/26 ,  C10G1/04 ,  C10G2300/807

摘要： In the field of oil sands processing, a process for heating an oil sands slurry stream such as bitumen froth containing bitumen and water and having variable heating requirements includes injecting steam directly into the froth at a steam pressure through a plurality of nozzles to achieve sonic steam flow; operating the plurality of the nozzles to vary steam injection by varying a number of the nozzles through which the injecting of the steam occurs in response to the variable heating requirements; and subjecting the oil sands slurry stream to backpressure sufficient to enable sub-cooling relative to the boiling point of water. A corresponding system is also provided.