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Oil sands innovation requires a deep understanding of extraction processes, fluid behaviour, separation performance, and tailings management. From improving bitumen recovery and processing efficiency to developing technologies that support reclamation objectives, successful innovation depends on reliable data and a thorough understanding of process performance.
InnoTech Alberta helps industry develop, evaluate, and optimize technologies that improve extraction performance, support tailings management, and advance more sustainable oil sands operations. Through applied research, laboratory and pilot-scale testing, fluid characterization, and process evaluation, we help organizations reduce technical uncertainty and accelerate development decisions.
Whether you’re developing a new extraction process, improving separation performance, evaluating tailings-treatment technologies, or validating a novel concept, our team provides the expertise and testing capabilities needed to move projects from research to application.
Improving extraction and processing performance requires a clear understanding of how technologies, operating conditions, and process changes affect recovery and product quality.
Our capabilities support the evaluation and optimization of bitumen extraction processes, froth treatment technologies, and emerging processing approaches through laboratory and pilot-scale testing. From early-stage concept development to process validation, we help organizations understand technology performance under realistic operating conditions and generate the data needed to support development decisions.
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Fluid behaviour influences every stage of oil sands extraction, separation, treatment, and tailings management. Understanding how fluids interact, separate, flow, and respond to treatment is essential to improving operational and environmental performance.
We help organizations characterize rheological and interfacial properties, evaluate separation and treatment technologies, improve fluid-processing performance, and develop solutions that support effective tailings management and reclamation objectives. Our capabilities support both operational improvements and the development of next-generation technologies.
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Access to representative samples can significantly reduce the time and cost required to evaluate and compare new technologies.
Our Mature Fine Tailings (MFT) Sample Bank provides researchers, technology developers, and industry partners with access to well-characterized tailings samples for testing and development activities related to characterization, treatment, dewatering, consolidation, and reclamation. The sample bank helps accelerate laboratory research, technology development, and performance validation by providing consistent and accessible test materials.
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