{"id":2365,"date":"2017-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-922\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:36:15","slug":"innovation-anthology-922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/12\/21\/innovation-anthology-922\/","title":{"rendered":"#922: Mal Carroll: Patent for Sodium Citrate Use in Hydro Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 922.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<div>Among the 18 new patents for Syncrude this year is one for the use of sodium citrate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That\u2019s a biodegradiable chemical more commonly known as a food additive or flavour enhancer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mal Carroll is Syncrude\u2019s head of Research and Development.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He says sodium citrate is added to the company\u2019s hydro-transport that moves oil sands from the mine to the processing plant.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MAL CARROLL: <\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We needed to find a chemical that was going to help enhance the recovery process in this process. \u00a0 And started of course with a literature search and understanding of what was done in other industries And then identifying 100 or chemicals that might be candidates to improve the performance. They were tested at laboratory scale which narrowed it down to about 10 and then we identified two chemicals out of that 10 to test at a larger scale. \u00a0And within a very short time of those results, we were able to construct a full scale commercial facility to dose the sodium citrate into our hydro transport system. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to Mal Carroll, when sodium citrate is added to the hydro-transport, it works as a detergent to wash or release more oil from the ore.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Thanks today to SYNCRUDE<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/div>\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>\u00a02017-12-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syncrude&#8217;s Mal Carroll talks about new patent for innovative use of food additive Sodium Citrate &#8211; it enhances oil sands hydro transport<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> (Syncrude)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,32,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","category-innovation","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\/4-17Syn_MalCarroll.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","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=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}