Oilsands 2012
August 28 to August 30, 2012
Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

All sessions take place in the Engineering Teaching and Learning Centre (ETLC), Room 1-001 unless noted. Start time of 7:30 am which begins with a continental breakfast. Opening talk starts at 8:15 am. Talks end at 4:15 pm. The reception and poster session begins at 4:30 pm and ends at 6:30 pm.

7:30 – 8:15                Continental Breakfast

8:15 – 8:30                Opening Remarks

                                    Dr. David Lynch, Dean of Engineering, University of Alberta

8:30 – 9:15                Keynote Speaker

                                    Dinara Millington, Senior Research Director

Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI)

Talk Title: Economic Impacts of Oil Sands Development
& Pipeline Expansion

9:15 – 9:45                Xiaoli Yang, Champion Technologies Ltd.

Exploring the Function and Limitation of Sodium Hydroxide as a Process Aid in Oil Sands Extraction

9:45 – 10:15              Thomas Fenderson, Atlanta Research & Development Centre, Kemira, Atlanta, GA

                                    Improving Bitumen Recovery from Low Grade Oil Sands Using Novel Inorganic Polymers

10:15 – 10:45           COFFEE BREAK

10:45 – 11:15           Meghan Curran, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

                                    Effect of Caustic Addition on the Processing of Oil Sands

11:15 – 11:45           Shima Khatibisepehr, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

                                    Soft Sensor Solutions for Control of Oil Sands Processes

11:45 – 12:15           Abhijit Maiti, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,

University of Alberta

                                    Effects of pH on SAGD Boiler Blow-Down and Spectro-Fluorescence Analysis

12:15 – 1:15              LUNCH – Solarium, 2^nd floor ETLC

1:15 – 1:45               Plamen Tchoukov , Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

                                    Possible Role of Asphaltenes in Stabilization of Water in Crude Oil Emulsions

1:45 – 2:15                Ishpinder Kailey, Baker Hughes

Influence of the Structural Variations of the Demulsifiers on their Performance 

2:15 – 2:45                C. Liang, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

                                    Stabilizing Temporary Emulsions with Switchable Wetting Particles

2:45 – 3:15                COFFEE BREAK

3:15 – 3:45                Patrick Mercier, National Research Council

                                    Characterization of Solids in Froths, Diluted Bitumen Products, Tailings, and Rag Layers from a Gravity-Settling Naphtha Based Froth Treatment Pilot Operation

3:45 – 4:15                Morvarid Madjlessi Kupai, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

                                    Characterization of Rag Layer Solids 

4:30 – 6:30                POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION

                                    Faculty Club, University of Alberta

                                    11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Poster Session Program and Abstracts