{"id":911,"date":"2010-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-353\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","slug":"innovation-anthology-353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/11\/16\/innovation-anthology-353\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #353:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 353.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nNow that scientists know that <b>microbes<\/b> may play an important role in breaking down residual oil in <b>tailings ponds<\/b>, the next step is to figure out how to speed up the process.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s the basis of several projects microbiologist <b>Tara Penner<\/b> is researching at Syncrude Canada Ltd, such as this one  in conjunction with the Alberta Water Research Institute.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nTARA PENNER: <\/b><em>And it\u2019s  looking at using agricultural  waste such as  manure, bone meal, celluose like straw, and feeding it to the bacteria so maybe they\u2019ll grow faster and produce more gas and allow this increased densification to happen faster.  And so we\u2019re right now still working at kind of the lab scale in settling columns of 1 to 7 litres, but eventually we\u2019d like to take this up to a pilot scale and use larger  tubs to see if this is actually a viable technology to use. So this is really exciting because not only would it help out the oil sands industry to manage our tailings better, but it\u2019s also going to help provide value add projects to the agriculture sector.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Tara Penner, the research on oil eating microbes is still in its early stages.  So Syncrude is collaborating with Genome Canada and Genome Alberta as well as other oil sands companies to discover all they can about the microbes.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude Canada Ltd<\/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>\u00a02010-11-16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that scientists know that<b> microbes<\/b> may play an important role in breaking down residual oil in <b>tailings ponds,<\/b> the next step is to figure out how to speed up the process.  That\u2019s the basis of several projects microbiologist <b>Tara Penner<\/b> is researching at <b>Syncrude<\/b>, such as this one  in conjunction with the <b>Alberta Water Research Institute. <\/b><em>(Syncrude Canada Ltd.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,59,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","category-women-in-science","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\/1-352tara_penner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}