Sentence examples for method for bitumen from inspiring English sources

Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is an effective method for bitumen and heavy oil reservoirs.

Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) has been the preferred thermal method for bitumen recovery from reservoirs in western Canada.

Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is the most widely used method for in-situ bitumen recovery.

Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is the established method for in situ bitumen extraction.

A more practical method of obtaining mixing temperatures for bitumen is presented and discussed.

An optimum condition of 574 kHz sonication frequency and 83.33% power input was observed as the best method for decreasing the viscosity of bitumen compared to other frequencies tested.

Conventionally, there exist two methods for separation of bitumen from oil sands, the hot water separation method (Fan and Bai 2015; Ren 2011) that can only be used for water-wet oil sands (Zhao et al. 2014) and the solvent extraction method that can be used to process oil-wet oil sands, but it requires high treatment costs and can result in environmental pollution.

One long-standing idea is to create a large wildlife refuge in areas that will eventually be tapped for bitumen.

Technological improvements in recent years have streamlined the burdensome refining process for bitumen, the feedstock in synthetic oil production.

The amount of sulfur compared to oil sludge (weight of bitumen = 73 g, weight of sludge = 10/42 g) was calculated for bitumen, oil sludge, bitumen and old sludge.

The primary steps towards an optimized and successful solvent-aided bitumen recovery method are bitumen characterization and phase behaviour study of solvent/bitumen system.