{"id":1909,"date":"2015-12-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-743\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:31:10","slug":"innovation-anthology-743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2015\/12\/24\/innovation-anthology-743\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #743:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 743.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the finalists recognized by the Alberta Science and Technology Foundation in 2015 was Dr. Ding-Yu Peng.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peng is a renowned researcher in thermodynamics at the University of Saskatchewan. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In  the 1990&#8217;s, he helped Syncrude design a way to determine the amounts of  residual solvents and hydrocarbons in their bitumen waste streams. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This could then maximize their removal before the process water is dumped in tailings ponds. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">DR  DING-YU PENG: <\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">If the solvent is naptha or paraffinic hydrocarbons,  they will behave differently at different temperature and pressure  conditions. &nbsp;So experimentally it&#8217;s very, challenging to get very  accurate results. &nbsp;So I was able to design the equipment facility to  conduct experiments. &nbsp;And I was also able to use the model to verify the  results to their satisfaciton. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peng&#8217;s discovery has helped to significantly reduce air and water pollution as well as recover valuable chemicals.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Thanks today to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SYNCRUDE<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/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>\u00a02015-12-24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Saskatchewan thermodynamics expert Dr. Ding-Yu Peng recognized as ASTech Award finalist for oil sands tailings work <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Syncrude)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,44,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-oil-sands","category-saskatchewan","category-syncrude","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":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","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=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}