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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2011
John White, Melbourne, FL (US);
Francis Eugene Parsche, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Victor Hernandez, Merritt Island, FL (US);
Derik T. Ehresman, Indialantic, FL (US);
Mark E. Blue, Palm Bay, FL (US);
John White, Melbourne, FL (US);
Francis Eugene Parsche, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Victor Hernandez, Merritt Island, FL (US);
Derik T. Ehresman, Indialantic, FL (US);
Mark E. Blue, Palm Bay, FL (US);
HARRIS CORPORATION, Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
Equipment and a process for separating bitumen from oil sand in a process stream are described. The equipment includes several processing vessels and one or more local area radio frequency applicators to selectively heat the process stream in local areas of the equipment. The local area can be adjacent to an input or output of a component of the equipment. Also described is equipment for processing an oil sand—water slurry, including a slurrying vessel, a slurry pipe, and a local area radio frequency applicator. The local area radio frequency applicator is located outside of the slurry pipe, and heats the local area without significantly heating the contents of the slurrying vessel or of the downstream portion of the slurry pipe.