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ADVANCES IN OIL SANDS TAILINGS RESEARCH Prepared by The Fine Tailings Fundamentals Consortium ^ncofnc ydlb^ra Sy^^crude Oil Sands Group ^^^^^^^ENERG? Secunng Canada's Energy Future M CNatauranl Raesdouarc es CRaesnsaoduar ces Naturelles Environment Environnement OSLO M Canada Canada CAN MET CMianneardaal aCnedn t rEen e rfgory Cteencthrneo l ocgainea d dieesn de la Technology mindraux et de l^nergie M National Research Counseil national Council Canada de recherches Canada ALBERTA NIC CNtC RESEARCH Institute for Environnnental Institut de technologie et de recherche COUNCIL Research and Technology environnementales MAR 28 \996 CANADIANS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/advancesinoilsanOOfine ADVANCES IN OIL SANDS TAILINGS RESEARCH Prepared by the Fine Tailings Fundamentals Consortium PARTICIPANTS Alberta Department of Energy Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority Alberta Research Council Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology Environment Canada National Research Council OSLO Suncor Inc., Oil Sands Group Syncrude Canada Ltd. ADVANCES IN OIL SANDS TAILINGS RESEARCH Referencing this publication should be cited as follows: FTFC (Fine Tailings Fundamentals Consortium), 1995. "Vol., Title," In: Advances in Oil Sands Tailings Research, Alberta Department of Energy, Oil Sands and Research Division, Publisher. ISBN 0-7732-1691-X PUBLISHED BY: Alberta Department of Energy Oil Sands and Research Division 1 1 Floor, North Petroleum Plaza 9945- 108 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5K 2G5 June 1995 FINE TAILINGS FUNDAMENTALS CONSORTIUM MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Al Turak and Juergen Kleta, Alberta Department of Energy Robert Turner, L. Richard Nelson and Roger Bailey, AOSTRA and Alberta Department of Energy Gordon Bird, Eddy Isaacs and Bryan Fuhr, Alberta Research Council Hassan Hamza, CANMET Barry Munson and Duane McNaughton, Environment Canada Bryan Sparks and Weldon Meadus, National Research Council Raj Paul and Allan Newell, Don Sheeran, Suncor Joseph Liu and Jan Czamecki, Syncrude TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Al Turak, Alberta Department of Energy L. Richard Nelson, AOSTRA and Alberta Department of Energy Ross Chow and Ernie Perkins, Alberta Research Council Randy Mikula, CANMET Barry Munson and Duane McNaughton, Environment Canada Luba Kotlyar and Weldon Meadus, National Research Council Tom Derenewski, OSLO Don Sheeran, Amar Sethi, Bob Bums and John Gulley, Suncor Robert Schutte, Ted Lord, Jan Czamecki, and Michael Mackinnon, Syncrude (Hi) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Consortium wishes to express its great appreciation to Ms. Diane B. Teppan for the production of this pubhcation. In addition, sincere appreciation is expressed to members of the Alberta Government regulatory agencies who attended meetings to explain the regulatory perspective and who offered candid comments on the Consortium's programs. PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTORS It is not possible to acknowledge by name all of the people who have contributed to the collaboration on fine tailings issues during the life of the Consortium. However, those mentioned below have made a level of contribution which deserves special recognition. VOLUME I: Hassan Hamza (Editor) VOLUME III: Donald E. Sheeran (Editor) Chandra Angle, CANMET Robert Bums, Suncor Jianmin Can, CANMET David Caughill, University of Alberta Graham Cuddy, Syncrude Tom Derenewski, OSLO Luba Kotlyar, NRC Kim Kasperski, CANMET Randy Mikula, CANMET Bill Liu, Colder Associates Vicente Munoz, CANMET Ted Lord, Syncrude Rob Schutte, Independent Randy Mikula, CANMET Russell Smith, Consultant Sam Proskin, University of Alberta Bryan Sparks, NRC Don Scott, University of Alberta Robert Tipman, Syncrude Dave Sego, University of Alberta Yuming Xu, CANMET Amar Sethi, MRRT Roman Zrobock, CANMET Don Sheeran, Suncor VOLUME II: Ted Lord and L. Richard Nelson (Editors) VOLUME IV: Ken Sury and John Stone (Editors) Hans Boerger, Syncrude Graham Cuddy, Syncrude John Gulley, Suncor Tom Derenewski, Syncrude Ted Lord, Syncrude David W. Horsfield, Colder Associates Michael Mackinnon, Syncrude Roman Koszarycz, Alberta Department of Energy, L. Richard Nelson, Alberta Department of Energy, OS&RD OS&RD Ted Lord, Syncrude Peter Nix, EVS Consultants Warren G. Miller, University of Alberta Randy Shaw, Colder Associates Wayne Mimura, Syncrude Raj Paul, Independent Rob Schutte, Independent J. Don Scott, University of Alberta Dave C. Sego, University of Alberta Robert Siy, Syncrude Russell G. Smith, Independent Bryan Sparks, NRC Jonathan R. Spence, Syncrude William Strand, Bitmin Resources Ltd. Dean Wallace, Alberta Research Council (iv) CONTENTS VOLUME I Clark Hot Water Extraction Fine Tailings VOLUME II Fine Tails and Process Water Reclamation VOLUME III Volume Reduction of Clark Hot Water Extraction Fine Tailings VOLUME IV Non-Clark Extraction Processes and Their Tailings Characteristics (V) I I i 1