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Wednesday, August 29, 2012 All sessions take place in the Engineering Teaching and Learning Centre (ETLC), Room 1-001 unless noted. Start time of 8:00 am which begins with a continental breakfast. Opening talk starts at 8:30 am. Talks end at 5:00 pm.
8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 Keynote Speaker Eddie Isaacs, Chief Operating Officer Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions Talk Title: Innovations in the Oil Sands: Shaping a Low Carbon Emissions and Sustainable Water Use Industry
9:15 – 9:45 Harvey Yarranton, Dept. of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary Deep Vacuum Fractionation and Characterization of Heavy Oil and Bitumen
9:45 – 10:15 Neil Camarta, Western Hydrogen Ltd., Calgary, AB Production of High Pressure Hydrogen by Molten Salt Gasification of Carbon Bearing Compounds
10:15 – 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 – 11:15 John Gordon, Ceramatec Inc., Salt Lake City, UT Upgrading Bitumen using Molten Sodium Enabling Cost Effective Upgrading at Modest Scale
11:15 – 11:45 Rosa Rueda, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta Characterization of Pendant Groups in Asphaltenes by Cracking under Hydrogenation Conditions
11:45 – 12:15 Sok Yui, Syncrude R&D Centre, Edmonton, AB Athabasca Oil Sands–Derived Bitumen Can Produce Quality Gasoline
12:15 – 1:00 LUNCH – Solarium, 2nd floor ETLC
1:00 – 1:45 Keynote Speaker Mark Johnstone, Senior Advisor New Technology Suncor Energy Inc. Talk Title: The Need for Change
1:45 – 2:15 Hossein Nikakhtar, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta Optimization of Cyclohexane Extraction of Alberta Oil Sands
2:15 – 2:45 Marek Osacky, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta
2:45 – 3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15 – 3:45 Leyli Mirmontazeri, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta Destabilization of Colloidal Solids in Non-Aqueous Liquids
3:45 - 4:15 Mirjavad Geramian, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta Effect of Various Clay Minerals on Non-Aqueous Bitumen Extraction
4:15 - 4:45 Xiaoli Tan, Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta
4:45 – 5:00 João B.P. Soares, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Information regarding the special issue of CJChE which will be organized for the papers presented at this conference.
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Conference Mailing Address: Oilsands 2012
Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta
9107 - 116th Street
Edmonton , Alberta Canada T6G 2V4
OSConf.2012@ualberta.ca (effective March 15, 2012)