{"id":423,"date":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-173-senior-research-engineer\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:58","slug":"innovation-anthology-173-senior-research-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2008\/10\/07\/innovation-anthology-173-senior-research-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #173: Senior Research Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 173.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Syncrude Canada processes bitumen to produce synthetic oil, one by-product is black<b> coke.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Syncrude scientist <b>Clara Qualizza, <\/b>this coke is essentially pure carbon.  It\u2019s a potential energy source and must stay on-site.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nCLARA QUALIZZA:   <\/b><em>And so we need to store it in such a way that if technology were developed to utilize it efficiently as an energy resource, and in a clean manner, that it could be used again in the future.   And so we store it in the landscape.    <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSyncrude is experimenting with coke as fill material in reconstructing watersheds after mining oil sands.  But as Clara Qualizza explains, coke requires special consideration.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nCLARA QUALIZZA: <\/b><em>So you could think of coke more as a coarser sand, although its quite perfectly round little sand particles.  And so water moves through it very quickly.  And so it\u2019s quite a dry material.  So we need to put a soil cover on it can hold enough moisture to keep the forest going.  We don\u2019t really  rely on the coke for moisture. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCoke contains sulphur.  And while not considered a major issue, instruments imbedded in the reconstructed landscape monitor for any leaching.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude Canada. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more at InnovationAnthology.com\n <\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>Chris Apps, <\/h3>\n<h4>C-FER Technologies, Alberta Innovates, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, <\/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>\u00a02008-10-07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Syncrude Canada processes bitumen to produce synthetic oil, one by-product is black<b> coke. <\/b>  According to Syncrude scientist <b>Clara Qualizza, <\/b>this coke is essentially pure carbon.  It\u2019s a potential energy source and must stay on-site.  <em> (Syndrude Canada)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,59,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-forests","category-syncrude","category-water","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}