C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 10 – C
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
10
C
C10C 3/00 (2006.01) B01D 19/00 (2006.01) B01D 21/00 (2006.01) C10G 1/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2387257
Discloses apparatus and method to deaerate and condition bitumen froth obtained from a primary tar sands bitumen extraction process comprising a vessel containing a plurality of inclined plates, called a static deaeration conditioner. The inclined plates of the static deaeration conditioner are substantially equidistantly spaced from each other and are inclined at an angle to the horizontal. The plates form a corresponding plurality of channels there between for the froth to be deaerated to flow along. The declination angle is selected to obtain a gravity induced froth flow rate in the channel that exhibits a lamella effect near laminar flow characteristics, which promotes the creation of a water-enriched froth region near the lower plate of the channel. A braking pump can be provided on an outlet port of the vessel to control the rate of flow through the vessel of the froth to be deaerated and conditioned.
Madge Donald Norman
Stevens Geoffrey Stewart
Strand William Lester
Smart & Biggar
Suncor Energy Inc.
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