Centre for Oil Sands Innovation (COSI) ERLC Video Conference February 18, 2009 Frank Jenkins & Art Bauer

COSI Lesson Development Initiated by Alberta Ingenuity (Sandra Robertson) Sponsored by Alberta Ingenuity and Imperial Oil Operated by CMASTE (Centre for Mathematics Science and Technology Education) at the U of A Situated in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the U of A

Alberta Ingenuity & CMASTE www. CMASTE. ca Select Outreach then Alberta Ingenuity Resources then Centre for Carbohydrate Science, Centre for Machine Learning or Centre for Oil Sands Innovation free downloadable resources/lessons also see

COSI Oil Sands Lessons 1. Career Connections 08 (Word) Career Connections 08 (Word) 2. Career Connections 08 TR (Word) 3. Career Research Team 08 (Word) Career Research Team 08 (Word) 4. Career Research Team 08 TR (Word) 5. STSE Issue: Kitchen Table Narrative (Word) STSE Issue: Kitchen Table Narrative (Word) 6. STSE Issue: Perspectives Research (Word) 7. STSE Issue: Perspectives Research TR (Word) 8. Investigations 1. Investigations--teacher resource (Word) 2. Investigations--preparation (PowerPoint) 3. Investigations--preLab (PowerPoint) 4. Investigations--student resource (Word) 5. Investigations--lab exercises (Word) 6. Investigations--postLab (PowerPoint)

Sample career in oil sands operations. See careers lesson.

Alberta Ingenuity, Imperial Oil & CMASTE The Oil Sands Process 1. the overburden is stripped from the mineable oil sand (<75 m) 2. the oil sand is mined with large shovels and trucks 3. the oil sand is crushed and mixed with hot water and a base (to increase pH) before being hydrotransported in a pipe to the extraction plant (This starts the extraction of bitumen.) 4. the oil sand and water mixture is transferred to a large separatory funnel/tank—bitumen froth, water, and sand are separated 5. air is added to help float the bitumen froth to the top of the mixture and to be skimmed off by a large rotating paddle 6. the bitumen is upgraded to synthetic crude oil by cracking-- large aromatic molecules into smaller aromatic and aliphatic ones 7. the sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen atoms and double bonds are eliminated from the sour synthetic crude by hydrotreating separate fractions of the cracked bitumen with hydrogen 8. the synthetic crude is shipped to a refinery to be refined into gasoline and other petroleum fractions

Inside Education A1: oil sands mine (< 75 m) overburden stripper oil sands shovel oil sands truck B1: bitumen extraction unit hydrotransport separation tanks naphtha dilution system centrifuge B2: insitu extraction of bitumen unit (e.g., SAGD) C1: vacuum distillation unit D1: cracking unit (coker) E1: distillation unit (e.g., gas, naphtha, kerosene & gas oil) F1: hydrotreaters G1: synthetic crude blender F1.2.1: Claus converter Bitumen to Synthetic Crude Oil (4) Upgrading of bitumen to synthetic crude oil Extraction of bitumen from oil sands H 2 S(g) H1: refinery further cracking and distillation pipe(line) F: H 2 (g) generator bitumen dilbit C1.3: naphtha recycle system naphtha S 8 (l) C(s) H 2 (g) NH 3 (g) B1.1: tailings pond cokesulfur ammonia oil F1.2: amine scrubber H 2 S(g) sour gas water sand gasoline, diesel, etc. steam CH 4 (g) NH 3 (g)

Mining—truck and shovel

Crushing, mixing & hydrotransport

Frothing—floating the bitumen

Investigating Bitumen Extraction –a research team approach 1. Career & STSE lessons 2. Investigations 1. Investigations--teacher resource (Word)teacher resource 2. Investigations--preparation (PowerPoint)preparation 3. Investigations--preLab (PowerPoint)preLab 4. Investigations--student resource (Word)student resource 5. Investigations--lab exercises (Word)lab exercises 6. Investigations--postLab (PowerPoint)postLab

Research Program/Team This series of investigations is aimed at  testing hypotheses by manipulating one variable at a time  improving the extraction of bitumen from oil sands—especially to reduce energy, water usage and environmental impact.  illustrating a research team approach that is common within scientific research programs.

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Acknowledgements Alberta Ingenuity (Sandra Robertson) Andree Koenig (demo) Cam McGregor Pam Seager Dr. Zhenghe Xu Dr. Steve Kuznicki Dr. Murray Gray COSI staff: Centre for Oil Sands Innovation Dr. Bob Ritter (CMASTE)

Oil Sands Education Research If you are interested in participating in a PhD research project on oil sands education, contact:  Art Bauer:

Contact Information Art Bauer  Frank Jenkins 