{"id":1905,"date":"2016-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-768\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:06:14","slug":"innovation-anthology-768","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/03\/24\/innovation-anthology-768\/","title":{"rendered":"#768: Super Pumps Save Millions At Syncrude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 768.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syncrude now uses what it calls Super Pumps to move raw bitumen &nbsp;from its Aurora mine to its oil sands extraction plant.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t always the case.<\/p>\n<p>For   years the company struggled with &nbsp;frequent, expensive breakdowns at   Aurora due to exceptionally high wear and tear on its hydro transport   system.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where water is mixed with the raw bitumen and the slurry is pumped down a pipeline to the extraction plant. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Wolfe is a mechanical engineer with Syncrude Research and Development.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">DAN  WOLFE:<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">So  once we started to focus on that and really try to understand  why we  had 4 times the wear rate in the pump &nbsp;impellors in the Aurora  mine  versus our mine that we started up several years earlier, we  realized  that the big difference was the size of rocks that we were  allowing  into the process. &nbsp;And not &nbsp;only that, but we realized that the  wear  rate in the pump impellors was exponentially related to the impact   velocity of the rock coming into the impellor. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It turns out the problem at Aurora wasa new screen designed with bigger holes.<\/p>\n<p>So Dan Wolfe &nbsp;set out to build a Super Pump that could handle thebigger rocks that came through the screen. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thanks today to Syncrude<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>You can listen to the full interview with Dan Wolfe at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">InnovationAnthology.com<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-03-24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Super Pumps save millions in replacement and downtime costs at Syncrude&#8217;s Aurora mine, says inventor Dan Wolfe of Syncrude Research and Development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16dan_wolfe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5477,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/5477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}