{"id":1255,"date":"2012-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-504\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:38","slug":"innovation-anthology-504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2012\/10\/11\/innovation-anthology-504\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #504:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 504.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Syncrude first started its operations in the 1970\u2019s, raw bitumen was moved by conveyor belt to the plant.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the conveyor belts could not handle distance or cold weather.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVeteran technology researcher Richard Masalanko helped Syncrude pioneer a new method called \u201chydro transport\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s where bitumen is pumped down a pipeline in a slurry.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nRICHARD MASALANKO: <\/b><em>The advantage there was we could pump it great distances and then distance was no longer a limiting factor whereas the conveyor belts were.  The other advantage was  that we could go a lower temperature.  That was a great innovation,   On the environment we were definitely being environmentally responsible by not using as much energy, not having to heat the slurry as much anymore.  But we also were able to get the advantage of not having to spend a lot of money on conveyors that had to be replace continually.   There are many, many people involved in this, engineers and people that designed this equipment.  They had to evaluate pumps and they had to determine what the density of this material had to be so that it  wouldn\u2019t sand out in the pipe.  Or how fast it would have to be pumped so it wouldn\u2019t freeze, for example,  in the pipes.   <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThanks to the early work of Richard Masalanko and his team, hydro transport is now used across the oil sands industry.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>SYNCRUDE   <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/b>\n<\/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>\u00a02012-10-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Syncrude first started its operations in the 1970\u2019s, raw bitumen was moved by <b>conveyor belt<\/b> to the plant.    But the conveyor belts could not handle distance or cold weather.     Veteran technology researcher <b>Richard Masalanko<b> helped Syncrude pioneer a new method called<b> \u201chydro transport\u201d.<\/b><em>   (Syncrude Canada Ltd.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,59,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-technology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-503Richard_Masalanko.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}