{"id":937,"date":"2010-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-364\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:21","slug":"innovation-anthology-364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/12\/23\/innovation-anthology-364\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #364:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 364.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIt takes four barrels of water to produce one barrel of bitumen from the oil sands in northern Alberta.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA lot of water is tied up in clay particles that settle out in tailings ponds at the end of the process.\n<\/p.\n\n\n<p>\nSyncrude is testing several technologies to help <b>speed up the release of water <\/b>from the tailings clays.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis will increase the amount of water that can be recycled to process more bitumen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs technology development officer <b>Jim Lorentz <\/b>explains, in one technique the company is building a beach where water can drain from the processed sand and leftover clay.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJim Lorentz calls it<b> \u201cthin lift drawing\u201d.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nJIM LORENTZ: <\/b><em>Thin life drawing is a technology where we add a water treatment chemical to the clay material from the tailings ponds. We place it on the beach in layers of about 30 cm to 60 cm deep.  And in two to three weeks, that material is dry enough where we can add a second layer of material.   That process repeats itself over the summer months and we end up with a trafficable material the following season. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Jim Lorentz, the dried material will be used in reclamation of mined areas.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/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>\u00a02010-12-23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Syncrude<\/b> is testing several technologies to help speed up the release of water from the tailings clays.   This will increase the amount of <b>water<\/b> that can be recycled to process more bitumen.  According to <b>Jim Lorentz,<\/b> one technique is called<b> thin lift drawing.<\/b> <em> (Syncrude Canada Ltd)<em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,59,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","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\/364jim_lorenz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}