{"id":370,"date":"2008-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-152-co-founder\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:56","slug":"innovation-anthology-152-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2008\/07\/17\/innovation-anthology-152-co-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #152: Co-Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 152.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Alberta oil sands produce over a million barrels a day.  But scientists still don\u2019t have a complete understanding of the basic chemistry of bitumen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s why Dr. Murray Gray and his colleagues at the Imperial Oil-Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Oil Sands Innovation are developing synthetic bitumen molecules.  They\u2019re hoping comparative computer analysis will help them understand these complex oil sands molecules.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b><br \/>\nDR. MURRAY GRAY:<\/b><em> So these molecules have been through a complex geological process starting with organic material from a marine environment.  It\u2019s been baked and processed through geological time.  And then it has migrated and been biodegraded in the case of Athabasca oil sands.  So the resulting chemical mixture is much more complex than the original biological starting point. So understanding  in some ways the human genome is easy, when comparing some of the details of this extraordinarily complex geological material. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOil sands scientists are still divided over the chemical structure of the bitumen molecules.  Dr. Gray believes the development of the synthetic ones will help settle this and lead to completely different technologies for extracting oil from the oil sands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em><br \/>\nThanks today to<b> Alberta Ingenuity<\/b><br \/>\n<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more at <b>InnovationAnthology.com<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<br \/>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>Debra Humphries, <\/h3>\n<h4>Dakota Supplies Inc, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertaingenuity.ca\">Alberta Ingenuity<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Established in 2000, the Alberta Ingenuity Fund supports science and engineering research of the highest calibre, to create a prosperous future for the province of Alberta. It draws funding from a $1 billion endowment established in 2000 and managed by the Government of Alberta  to build the capacity for innovation, especially in areas with long lasting social and economic impact.    <\/p>\n<p>Among its many programs, Alberta Ingenuity supports graduate students and university researchers, industrial research and commercialization partnerships, and has established several Centres and Institutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn January 2010, under the new Alberta Innovation Framework, Alberta Ingenuity was restructured and absorbed in the new agency Alberta Innovates Technology Solutions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Ingenuity_AI_RGB_sm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02008-07-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta oil sands produce over a million barrels a day.  But scientists still don\u2019t have a complete understanding of the basic chemistry of bitumen.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why <b>Dr. Murray Gray<\/b> and his colleagues at the<b> Imperial Oil-Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Oil Sands Innovation <\/b>are developing <b>synthetic bitumen molecules.  <\/b>They\u2019re hoping comparative computer analysis will help them understand these complex oil sands molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,10,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta-ingenuity","category-energy","category-engineering","category-natural-resources","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\/1-151murray_gray.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}