Ionic Liquids Process Recovers Bitumen from Utah Oil Sands With Little Water Use
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 27, 2010
While hot or warm water processes are used to extract bitumen from Canadian oil sands, the application of these methods to the processing deposits found in the Western United States, notably Utah, has not been commercially successful, the researchers noted, because of the consolidated nature of the deposits and the high viscosity of the bitumen.
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