System, apparatus and process for extraction of bitumen from oil sands

A separation process and system for extracting hydrocarbons from a mixture. In some embodiments, a process for separating a bitumen froth stream containing bitumen froth, water and fine solids into a bitumen enriched froth stream and a water and fine solids stream, comprises: (a) receiving the bitum...

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Hauptverfasser:	DIEP JOHN KHAI-QUANG, GARNER WILLIAM NICHOLAS, KIEL DARWIN EDWARD, HANN THOMAS CHARLES, BJORNSON BRADFORD E, STRAND CRAIG AARON
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CHEMISTRY CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS DIFFERENTIAL SEDIMENTATION EARTH DRILLING FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS FLOTATION FUELS LUBRICANTS MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLIDMATERIALS OR FLUIDS METALLURGY MINERAL WAXES MINING MINING OR QUARRYING PEAT PERFORMING OPERATIONS PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS REFORMING OF NAPHTHA SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATICTABLES OR JIGS SEPARATION SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATICTABLES OR JIGS TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	A separation process and system for extracting hydrocarbons from a mixture. In some embodiments, a process for separating a bitumen froth stream containing bitumen froth, water and fine solids into a bitumen enriched froth stream and a water and fine solids stream, comprises: (a) receiving the bitumen froth stream in a concentrator vessel, (b) distributing the bitumen froth stream in the concentrator vessel as a substantially uniform and generally horizontal flow of the bitumen froth stream at a first flow velocity, (c) slowing the bitumen froth stream to a second flow velocity, slower than the first flow velocity, in a separation region of the concentrator vessel to promote separation of the bitumen froth from the water and fine solids, and then (d) collecting a bitumen enriched froth stream and (e) collecting a separate water and fine solids stream. Related embodiments of systems and apparatus may also be provided.