Solar assisted method for recovery of bitumen from oil sand

Daniel Kraemer; Anurag Bajpayee; Andy Muto; Vincent Berube; Matteo Chiesa

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.12.003

Solar assisted method for recovery of bitumen from oil sand

Daniel Kraemer, Anurag Bajpayee, Andy Muto, Vincent Berube, Matteo Chiesa

Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Abstract

A novel concept for the recovery of bitumen from oil sands in a natural gas limited environment with and without CO₂ constraints is presented. We suggest a feasible method for the recovery of unconventional oil in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way that has the potential of eliminating the need of natural gas as a process fuel. The proposed concept involves mid temperature steam generation for stimulating an oil sand formation. The steam is generated by utilizing solar radiation. The method uses the thermal mass of the oil sand formation to allow for cyclic steam injection during solar availability while still yielding continuous bitumen recovery. Feasibility assessments of the concept from both a thermodynamic and financial point of view are presented for a scenario of development in the Athabasca region in Alberta, Canada.

Original language	British English
Pages (from-to)	1437-1441
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Energy
Volume	86
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2008.12.003
State	Published - Sep 2009

Keywords

Bitumen extraction
Oil sand
Solar concentrator
Unconventional oil

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