Method for controlling flocculant addition to tar sand tailings

Details Method for controlling flocculant addition to tar sand tailings Method for controlling flocculant addition to tar sand tailings

C - Chemistry, Metallurgy

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C10G 1/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1119985

"METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FLOCCULANT ADDITION TO TAR SAND TAILINGS" ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The hot water extraction process for recovering bitumen from tar sand produces a large volume of solids-laden aqueous tailings as a waste product. The solids in the tailings stream may be flocculated by the addition of lime and the components of the stream then separated into a water-free solids phase and a clarified water phase. During flocculation, the zeta potential of the stream is monitored. It rises from an initial negative zeta potential, as the lime is added. Flocculation is terminated when the zeta potential is about zero. At this point, the tailings are in optimum condition for separation into the water-free solids phase and the clarified water phase. Separation is preferably effected by vacuum filtration.

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