{"id":957,"date":"2011-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-369\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:23","slug":"innovation-anthology-369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/01\/18\/innovation-anthology-369\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #369:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 369.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIt takes a lot of energy to process bitumen from Alberta\u2019s oil sands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo <b>energy conservation<\/b> can pay big dividends both economically and environmentally.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nJim Lorentz<\/b> is a technology development manager at Syncrude.    He says through co-generation, waste heat for the upgrader is used to heat water for the extraction process.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd there there other examples of energy savings.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nJIM LORENTZ: <\/b><em>When we introduced the hydro transport and cyclo feeders in our north mine installationm the original Clark hot water process had a 95 degree extraction process. And the introduction of hydro transport allowed us to reduce that to typically 55 degrees Celsius. We went to at our Aurora plant what we call mix boxes. So that\u2019s allowed us to go from the process temperature from 55 degrees down to 42 degrees at Aurora.  Over the last two years, we\u2019ve saved over a 100 million dollars in energy costs which translates to 17 percent reduction in our energy bill. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Jim Lorentz, Syncrude uses solar power on its remote instruments and often feeds electricity back into the power grid.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to<b> Syncrude<\/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>\u00a02011-01-18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot of energy to process bitumen from Alberta\u2019s oil sands.   So <b>energy conservation<\/b> can pay big dividends both economically and environmentally. According to Syncrudes technology development manager <b>Jim Lorentz,<\/b>co-generation is just one of several technologies the oil sands company uses to save energy.  <em>(Syncrude Canada Ltd)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","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\/369jim_lorenz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4687,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/4687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}