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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
May. 08, 2014
Applicants:
Christopher Lin, Calgary, CA;
Amitava Sarkar, Calgary, CA;
Brian C. Speirs, Calgary, CA;
Ren Zhu, Calgary, CA;
Stuart R. D. Lunn, Calgary, CA;
Inventors:
Christopher Lin, Calgary, CA;
Amitava Sarkar, Calgary, CA;
Brian C. Speirs, Calgary, CA;
Ren Zhu, Calgary, CA;
Stuart R. D. Lunn, Calgary, CA;
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/52 (2006.01); C10G 1/04 (2006.01); B01D 21/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/52 (2013.01); B01D 21/01 (2013.01); C02F 1/5236 (2013.01); C10G 1/045 (2013.01); C10G 1/047 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for treating oil sands tailings. The tailings are conditioned with an aluminate and treated with a silicate-containing stream from a hydrocarbon operation or from a geothermal source to produce chemically-induced micro-agglomerates (CIMA) and water.