{"id":599,"date":"2009-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-233\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:05","slug":"innovation-anthology-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2009\/06\/11\/innovation-anthology-233\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #233:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 233.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Tailings in oil sands <\/strong>parlance refers to the material leftover at the tail end of production &#8211;  after the oil has been separated from the sand.   <\/p>\n<p> At Syncrude, this collection of sand, clay and water is pumped down a pipeline into artificial ponds.   <\/p>\n<p> Over time, the particles of sand and clay settle to the bottom of these<strong> tailings ponds, <\/strong>and the water goes back into the plant for reuse in the oil sand separation process. <\/p>\n<p> According to  technology development officer <strong>Jim Lorentz,<\/strong> Syncrude is piloting a new system to speed up that process.  It uses centrifugal force. <\/p>\n<p><strong> JIM LORENTZ:<\/strong><em>  Exactly like a washer spin dryer.  So we&rsquo;re trying to dry those solids using mechanical energy and increasing basically what gravity has to offer.   The machines we&rsquo;re talking about are commercially available.  We&rsquo;re talking about a meter diameter by about 3 meters to 4 meters long and multiples of them in parallel. We&rsquo;re talking about improving the gravitational force from one gravitational force to 200 plus gravitational forces.  So that should reduce the settling time by about 200 times.  <\/em> <\/p>\n<p> Jim Lorentz says the spun dried material or cake as it&rsquo;s called would be used in wet or dry landscape reclamation.  <\/p>\n<p><em> Thanks today to <strong>Syncrude Canada. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <em><strong>Learn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/strong> <\/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>\u00a02009-06-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tailings in oil sands parlance refers to the material leftover at the tail end of production.  At Syncrude, this collection of sand, clay and water is pumped down a pipeline into <strong>tailings ponds<\/strong> where the sand and clay settle to the bottom.   According to  technology development officer <strong>Jim Lorentz,<\/strong> Syncrude is piloting a new system to speed up that process using <strong>centrifugal force<\/strong>.<em>  (Syncrude Canada)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29,59,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-resources","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\/09jim_lorentz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}