Penn State team develops more environmentally friendly method for separating bitumen or oil from sands using ionic liquids
Green Car Congress
MARCH 17, 2011
Separation of bitumen from a Canadian oil sand sample using an ionic liquid. A team of researchers at Penn State has developed a new, more environmentally friendly method of separating bitumen from oil sands utilizing ionic liquids (IL). Oil sands represent approximately two-thirds of the world’s estimated oil reserves.
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