2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Heavy Oil and Other Challenging Resources II

United States and Canada are home to vast heavy oil and unconventional fuel resources. There are challenges in extraction and recovery, transportation and processing of these resources. In this session we seek contributions on all aspects of heavy oil utilization.

Chair

Murray R. Gray, University of Alberta

Presentations

12:30 PM

(99a) Barriers and Challenges to the Selective Removal of Vanadium From the Asphaltene Fraction
Greg P. Dechaine, Murray R. Gray

12:55 PM

(99b) Solubility and Mass Transfer Parameters of Hydrogen in Vacuum Residues Under Hydroconversion Conditions
Mariela Sanoja, Morsi Badie I., Laurent Sehabiague, Yannick J. Heintz, Rachid Oukaci

01:20 PM

(99c) On Specific Partial Molar Volume of Asphaltenes in Organic Liquids and Their Solubility Parameters
Kasra Nikooyeh, John M. Shaw

01:45 PM

(99d) Upgrading of Athabasca Oilsands Bitumen by Low Temperature Natural Zeolite Cracking
A.S.M. Junaid, W. Wang, C. Street, M. Rahman, W. McCaffrey, S. Kuznicki

02:10 PM

(99e) Supercritical Water to Upgrade Petroluem Feedstock
Ki-Hyouk Choi, Ali M. Al-Somali, Joo-Hyeong Lee, Mohammad F. Aljishi, Mohammed R. Al-Dossary, Ashok K. Punetha

02:35 PM

(99f) Separation of Heavy Oil Emulsions
Jayant P. Rane, Sanjoy Banerjee, David Harbottle