{"id":2073,"date":"2016-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-810\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:40:11","slug":"innovation-anthology-810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/09\/27\/innovation-anthology-810\/","title":{"rendered":"#810: Syncrude: Co-mixing to Manage Tailings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 810.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syncrude has developed a number of technologies to deal with clay and fluid fine tailings after oil sands are processed. <\/p>\n<p>The latest is called co-mixing.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Lorentz is Syncrude&rsquo;s team lead on tailings research and development.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">JIM  LORENTZ: <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Co-mixing involves mixing the KC overburden clay with  fluid fine tails in proportions so that we&#8217;re left with material that  can be used for construction of landforms, hills, hummocks or any other  type of reclamation substrate that the closure and reclamation plans  call for. &nbsp;<br \/><\/span><br \/>Co-mixing creates a malleable material with the consistency of cookie dough or plasticine. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">JIM  LORENTZ<\/span>: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&nbsp;So there are a number of ways that we mix the materials  together. &nbsp;The simplest way has been on a conveyor belt where we  basically pour the fluid fine tails on through a fire hose, and the two  materials mix by the time they get to the tailings deposit where they  form a composite material. &nbsp;Then when they do that we get a material  that&rsquo;s strong enough that it can be trafficable by vehicles within a  week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jim Lorentz says Syncrude is now sharing its co-mixing technology with other oil sands companies. <br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Thanks today to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> SYNCRUDE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<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>\u00a02016-09-27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syncrude has developed another tailings technology called co-mixing which helps them use fluid fine tailings in land reclamation, says tailings research lead Jim Lorentz<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> (Syncrude)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,46,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-oil-sands","category-reclamation","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\/16jim_lorentz_comixing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5431,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/5431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}