溶剂提取SZ36-1模拟油砂油的实验研究

用溶剂提取法处理SZ36-1模拟油砂,优选120#溶剂油为适宜提取溶剂,确定260 nm为测定原油含量的最佳紫外可见吸收波长。考察了提取温度、提取次数、剂砂质量比、抽提时间等条件对模拟油砂处理的影响。结果表明,在剂砂质量比10∶1,75℃下提取40 min,重复提取3次的条件下,油砂油提取率达95%以上,尾砂含油量低于0.35%。原油提取效果好、清除彻底,为120#溶剂油提取油砂油、检验SZ36-1油砂污染程度提供了依据。     

溶剂抽提法分离印尼油砂的实验研究

利用溶剂抽提法对印尼油砂进行萃取分离实验,综合考察了剂砂比、抽提温度、抽提时间、抽提次数等操作条件对油砂沥青提取的影响,确定较佳的油砂分离条件。结果表明,印尼油砂更适合采用溶剂抽提法分离,从油砂沥青提取率、操作成本和环保多角度考虑,在超声波的作用下,剂砂比为2．5,抽提温度40℃,抽提时间30min,抽提3次的条件下,油砂沥青的提取率较高,达到20．31％。     

加拿大油砂溶剂抽提分离工艺的研究

对加拿大油砂进行了溶剂抽提分离试验,考察了石油醚、石脑油、甲苯、环己烷以及重整汽油对提取效果的影响,确定重整汽油为最佳抽提溶剂.综合考察了提取温度、溶剂与油砂体积比、提取时间以及搅拌速度等工艺操作条件对油砂沥青提取的影响,结果表明,在提取温度500℃,溶剂和油砂的体积比为1∶1,提取时间60 min,搅拌速度为80 r/min的条件下,油砂沥青提取率达到92.57%.     

克拉玛依油砂溶剂萃取分离实验研究

以克拉玛依油砂为实验对象,考察石油醚、环己烷、正戊烷、正庚烷、甲苯、CS2及复合溶剂EOSA萃取分离油砂沥青的效果,确定EOSA为最佳萃取溶剂。研究了温度、溶剂用量、时间对EOSA萃取分离油砂沥青收率的影响。结果表明,在萃取温度30℃、剂砂比2 mL/g条件下萃取30 min,油砂沥青的收率可达95%以上。再生实验结果表明,在60~80℃条件下,溶剂回收率超过99%。该工艺具有无水参与、零排放、低能耗、高收率等优点。     

油砂沥青溶剂提取回收组合工艺

采用有机溶剂提取-超临界CO2回收溶剂这一组合方法对加拿大Athabasca油砂进行了提取分离及溶剂回收实验,通过实验筛选出最佳抽提溶剂为重整汽油。溶剂提取的最佳工艺条件:提取温度80℃,溶剂流量60mL/min,提取时间60min。在此条件下油砂沥青提取率达到92.74%。对超临界CO2-重整汽油体系的相行为进行研究,并通过实验综合考察了温度、压力、CO2流量以及回收时间等工艺操作条件对溶剂回收的影响。结果表明:在回收温度50℃,回收压力13MPa,溶剂与CO2分离温度70℃,压力5MPa,CO2流量7.5L/h,时间1h的条件下,重整汽油的回收率为98.71%。     

新疆油砂水洗分离提油工艺研究

以新疆风砂16#油砂为测试样品进行油砂水洗分离影响因素的分析.实验综合考察了加热温度、分离试剂质量分数、加热时间、剂砂质量比等因素对油砂分离的影响.通过正交实验得出油砂水洗分离的最佳工艺操作条件为:分离温度90℃、ω(分离剂)=5%、分离时间20 min、剂砂质量比为2:1,追加实验结果表明在此操作条件下,油砂出油率最高可达94%以上.分离残砂经两次清洗后砂中含油丰<1%、pH值<8、砂中试剂总质量分数≤0.7%,达到排放标准,对环境无污染.     

不同有机溶剂对新疆油砂沥青的组成性质影响

油砂作为一种非常规石油资源,越来越受到人们的重视。油砂沥青的含量和性质对其开发有着重要的影响。有机溶剂抽提可以测定油砂沥青的含量。本文研究了3种溶剂对新疆油砂的抽提能力,并对不同溶剂抽提得到的新疆油砂沥青进行了性质分析。结果表明,新疆油砂含油率（甲苯测）为11.75%,属于中品位油砂矿;甲苯、氯仿和石油醚3种不同溶剂对新疆油砂沥青进行抽提,发现3种溶剂抽提能力的大小关系为氯仿＞甲苯＞石油醚;抽提过程中,氯仿表现出对胶质和沥青质较强的萃取能力,而石油醚对沥青质的萃取能力几乎为0,采用氯仿可以更准确地测定油砂沥青的含量。氯仿抽提得到新疆油砂沥青及其组分的杂原子含量和分子量高于甲苯和石油醚抽提的。由红外谱图发现,氯仿抽提得到的油砂沥青的含氧、含硫官能团的吸收峰强度大于甲苯和石油醚抽提的,表明氯仿对油砂沥青中极性物质的抽提能力更强。     

有机溶剂萃取加拿大油砂应用研究

介绍了溶剂作为萃取剂分离油砂的技术,溶剂萃取油砂过程包含两个阶段:沥青相向溶剂的溶解过程和沥青、溶剂与砂粒的分离过程。考察了单一溶剂甲苯、丙酮、乙酸乙酯和甲苯/正庚烷、丙酮/正庚烷、乙酸乙酯/正庚烷组成的复合溶剂体系在相同条件下对油砂沥青的萃取率,在此基础上进一步对比了不同溶剂体系对沥青四组分饱和分、芳香分、胶质和沥青质的萃取效果,同时考察了不同浓度的沥青-溶剂溶液的表面张力,结果表明在油砂萃取过程中沥青-溶剂体系的表面张力主要取决于所选溶剂的种类,而沥青的浓度对溶液表面张力的影响不大。混合溶剂体系甲苯/正庚烷、丙酮/正庚烷、乙酸乙酯/正庚烷相比纯溶剂萃取率较高,其沥青溶液表面张力较低,是良好的分离油砂溶剂体系。     

油砂高效分离配方开发及新型分离技术

针对目前油砂分离的难题,即油砂分离配方适应性较差,分离温度较高、能耗较大,分离试剂浓度较大、分离后残渣试剂残留量较大、分离配方中碱含量较大,试剂损耗、设备腐蚀严重等问题,开发了一种无碱环保新型油砂分离剂配方,该配方可对水润、油润等油砂进行水洗分离,适应性较强。研究结果表明,采用该分离试剂处理油砂,在适宜水洗分离剂浓度(5%)、适宜的加热温度(90℃)、适当的加热时间(20min)和剂砂质量比(2∶1)的条件下,油砂分离剂可以将油砂沥青中的沥青与砂粒实现较好的分离,油砂出油率可达94%以上。分离后的水性试剂可循环利用,对环境无污染,应用前景广阔。为了适应日益严格的环保要求,还提出了纯物理无剂处理油砂的新型油砂分离技术,该技术是将一种装有特殊物质的微球放入油砂处理系统中,在搅拌过程中微球产生能量来降低沥青与砂粒的界面张力,不向处理系统内添加任何化学试剂,在处理过程中不排放任何化学物质,故对环境无任何污染。初步研究表明,该技术在工艺上是可行的。因此,本研究成果为进一步研究我国油砂开采、分离提供了另一有效途径,具有十分重要的现实应用意义。     

利用硫酸从石煤矿中提取五氧化二钒的工艺研究

主要利用硫酸浸出法从石煤矿中提取五氧化二钒,系统的研究了浸出时间、浸出温度、浸出剂浓度及浸出剂体积与焙砂质量比等因素对五氧化二钒浸出率的影响。通过实验发现,当浸出温度95℃,浸出时间7h,浸出剂体积与焙砂质量比3:1,浸出剂浓度2mol/L时浸出率最高,达到83.5%。     

Solvent screening for non‐aqueous extraction of Alberta oil sands

Non‐aqueous extraction of bitumen from oil sands has the potential to reduce fresh water demand of the extraction process and eliminate tailings ponds. In this study, different light hydrocarbon solvents, including aromatics, cycloalkanes, biologically derived solvents and mixtures of solvents were compared for extraction of bitumen from Alberta oil sands at room temperature and ambient pressure. The solvents are compared based on bitumen recovery, the amount of residual solvent in the extracted oil sands tailings and the content of fine solids in the extracted bitumen. The extraction experiments were carried out in a multistage process with agitation in rotary mixers and vibration sieving. The oil sands tailings were dried under ambient conditions, and their residual solvent contents were measured by a purge and trap system followed by gas chromatography. The elemental compositions of the extraction tailings were measured to calculate bitumen recovery. Supernatants from the extraction tests were centrifuged to separate and measure the contents of fine solid particles. Except for limonene and isoprene, the tested solvents showed good bitumen recoveries of around 95%. The solvent drying rates and residual solvent contents in the extracted oil sands tailings correlated to solvent vapour pressure. The contents of fine solids in the extracted bitumen (supernatant) were below 2.9% for all solvents except n‐heptane‐rich ones. Based on these findings, cyclohexane is the best candidate solvent for bitumen extraction, with 94.4% bitumen recovery, 5 mg of residual solvent per kilogram of extraction tailings and 1.4 wt% fine solids in the recovered bitumen. © 2012 Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering     

Clay minerals in nonaqueous extraction of bitumen from Alberta oil sands: Part 1. Nonaqueous extraction procedure

A non-aqueous bitumen extraction process was studied where only toluene and heptane, with no water additions, were used to extract bitumen from two Alberta oil sands ore samples. One sample had a high bitumen (13.5 wt.%) and low fines (5.3 wt.% < 45 μm) contents, while the other sample had an intermediate bitumen (10.5 wt.%) and high fines (23.3 wt.%) contents. Bitumen recovery and product quality were measured under different process conditions such as the ratio of toluene to heptane and settling time. The Dean Stark procedure was used to determine the solids, bitumen and water contents of the extraction products. In addition, the water content was determined by the Karl Fischer titration method. High bitumen recovery was obtained for both oil sands ore samples although the high fines ore sample was more sensitive to the extraction conditions, especially the toluene to heptane ratio. A product with high purity, containing more than 99.5 wt.% bitumen on a solvent-free basis, was produced at room temperature under the optimum extraction conditions tested. The optimum settling time to achieve a pure product was less than 10 min, based on solids and water contents in the supernatant.     

离子液体促进溶剂萃取油砂沥青

传统水洗法和溶剂萃取法萃取油砂沥青时,存在沥青中含有沙土和残沙中含有油等缺点。为解决上述缺点,本文采用不同比例的乙酸甲酯/正庚烷复合溶剂萃取油砂沥青,研究了离子液体（1-丁基-3-甲基咪唑四氟硼酸盐,[Emim]BF4）对该溶剂萃取体系的萃取率和分离洁净程度的影响。采用红外光谱仪和扫描电镜对萃取后的残沙和沥青的洁净程度进行了定性分析,并结合元素分析仪和电感耦合等离子体发射光谱仪获得萃取后残沙和沥青的洁净程度的定量结果。实验结果表明：当复合溶剂体积比为2∶3时,[Emim]BF4促使沥青回收率达到最大值94.20%,比单纯复合溶剂萃取体系的最大萃取率高7.92%;通过上述测试方法的定性和定量分析,证明了[Emim]BF4能有效解决沥青夹带沙土和残沙中含油的问题。     

Effect of ore quality on non-aqueous oil sand extraction performance

Current commercial aqueous based extraction processes are energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive and require large tailings ponds. Non-aqueous extraction (NAE) of bitumen from mineable oil sands is an alternative that eliminates tailings ponds with potentially lower energy requirements and GHG emissions. The economics of the NAE process depend partly on the impact of ore quality on bitumen recovery and product quality (low water and solids content). It has been claimed that NAE performance is insensitive to the quality (bitumen content) of the oil sand ores. However, the available data are ambiguous because different extraction methods and solvents were used in different studies and, in many cases, a limited range of ore qualities was examined. In this study, bitumen was extracted from eight ores of different quality with cyclohexane using a multistage method equivalent to a countercurrent process with a solvent/ore ratio of 0.67 w/w. The bitumen recovery and the water and solids content of the product bitumen were determined for each ore. It was found that bitumen recovery correlated negatively to clay content of the ore. The loss of recovery was attributed to bitumen adsorption on clays. The product quality was insensitive to the ore quality and instead depended on the density of the fluid medium, as expected with a centrifuge-based separation method. The recovery and product quality from the NAE method were similar to those from aqueous extractions.     

Preparation of bitumen from oil sand by ultracentrifugation

Ultracentrifugation was investigated as a means to obtain solvent-free bitumen from oil sand. The bitumen from three oil sands of varying grades was separated by placing the sands in specially designed tubes and centrifuging for 2 h at 198 000 at 20 °C. For all grades of oil sand, approximately 70% of the bitumen was recovered. The recovered bitumen was compared to the residual remaining on the sand, and to that extracted by the conventional Soxhlet technique. The ultracentrifuged bitumen contained some emulsified water and a small amount of fine solids. The solvent-extracted material was water-free, but contained a small amount of residual solvent and fine solids. The ultracentrifuge caused some fractionation of the bitumen, resulting in a product slightly enriched in asphaltene components compared to the solvent-extracted material. The residual bitumen remaining on the sand was correspondingly slightly depleted in asphaltenes. However, as evidenced by gas Chromatographic simulated distillation data, ultracentrifugation did retain the light (180–220 °C) components of the bitumen which were lost during the solvent removal step following solvent extraction. Other analyses such as density, viscosity and elemental composition verified that ultracentrifugation resulted in some fractionation of bitumen components.     

Characterization of organic‐coated solids isolated from different oil sands

Solids isolated from weathered oil sands ores and those having low‐ and high‐fine solids content were studied. The organic matter (OM) adsorbed on the solids was found insoluble in most common solvents, contributing significantly to the change of solid surface properties. The surface properties of these solids were found to affect the entire process cycle of obtaining synthetic crude oil from surface‐mined oil sands using a water‐based extraction process, and managing the existing tailings ponds. In this study, the low‐fine solids ore possessed the lowest amount of organic‐coated solids and highest bitumen recovery. Siderite and pyrite, which tend to concentrate in the hydrocarbon phase were observed in the isolated solids from the weathered and high‐fine ores but were absent in the low‐fine ores. In all the ores studied, the solids from the bitumen froth possess less quartz, and more carbonates compared with solids from the tailings. Elemental analysis by energy dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy (EDX) and elemental analyser revealed the presence of more transition metals (iron and titanium), and carbon in the solids obtained from the bitumen froth when compared with those from the tailings. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy study substantiated the results obtained by X‐ray diffraction and elemental analysis. IR spectra showed a likely association between OM and carbonates in the organic‐coated solids isolated from bitumen froth. More organic‐coated solids were found in weathered oil sands than in other types of ores and observed to reduce bitumen recovery from oil sands.     

Capillary Curves for Ex‐situ Washing of Oil‐Coated Particles

The oil removal efficiency for the ex situ extraction of bitumen from oil sands, or ex situ washing of oil‐contaminated sand and related processes is determined by the balance of forces at the oil/water and solid/fluid interfaces. The objective of this work is to estimate the balance of forces at the interface using dimensionless numbers, and their use in evaluating and engineering ex situ soil washing processes. To this end, bitumen was removed from bitumen‐coated sand particles using a two‐step process. In the first step, the particles were mixed with a suitable solvent (toluene) used, primarily, to reduce the viscosity of bitumen. The particles were then mixed with water or an aqueous surfactant solution capable of producing low interfacial tensions with the solvent‐bitumen mixture. The fraction of oil retained after washing was evaluated as a function of interfacial tension, solvent/bitumen ratio, mixing time, mixing velocity, and particle size. These ex situ washing conditions were normalized using dimensionless film and particle‐based Weber and Capillary numbers. The fraction of oil retained by the particles was plotted against these dimensionless numbers to generate capillary curves similar to those used in enhanced oil recovery. These curves reveal the existence of a critical film‐based Weber number and a particle‐based Capillary number that can be used in the design or evaluation of soil washing processes. The film‐based Weber number also explained literature data that associates interfacial tension with the removal of oil from oil‐based drill cuttings, as well as field observations on the role that particle size plays on the removal of oil in soil washing operations.     

Application of microbial enhanced oil recovery technology in water‐based bitumen extraction from weathered oil sands

When using the water‐based extraction processes (WBEPs) to recover bitumen from the weathered oil sands, very low bitumen recovery arisen from the poor liberation of bitumen from sand grains is always obtained. Application of microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) technology in WBEPs to solve the poor processability of the weathered ore was proposed. It was found that processability of the microbial‐treated weathered ore was greatly improved. The improved processability was attributed to the biosurfactants production in the culture solution, alteration of the solids wettability, degradation of the asphaltene component, and the decrease of the bitumen viscosity, which collectively contributed to the bitumen liberation from the surface of sand grains. Although it still has many issues to be solved for an industrial application of the MEOR technology in oil sands separation, it is believed that the findings in this work promote the solution to the poor processability of the weathered ore. © 2014 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 60: 2985–2993, 2014     

Removal of intractable fine solids from bitumen solutions obtained by solvent extraction of oil sands

During solvent extraction of bitumen from oil sands, the bitumen solutions produced are usually contaminated with fine solids. The water-wettable fines may be eliminated by utilizing simple solids agglomeration techniques during extraction. Intractable oil-wetted solids can also be removed by chemical treatment to improve settling rates, allowing separation without the need for centrifugation. Some data from small-scale batch and continuous experiments are presented to illustrate the techniques employed.