Grant: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
Carleton University
$240,000.00
Long term dewatering of amended oil sands tailings
FY 2018-19
Summary
Management of tailings in the oil sands industry contintues to be a challenege both economically and from an environmental perspective. Many developing technologies appear to be promsing to reduce environmental impacts and to facilitate recalamation of tailings sites and ecological respotration, but substantial room for increasing technical performance and finding cost efficiencies remains. Recent regulatory changes and industry outlook have re-directed priorities towards longer term low cost solutions to dewatering fines grained tailings and facilitiate closure and ecological restoration of tailings ponds over the mine lifetime (20 to 30 year outlook), rather than high cost solutions that target short-term goals. Technically, this leads to a need to better understand the natural long term (months to years) dewatering behaviour of new tailings technologies, which is the scientific focus of the proposed project. The project will develops new measurement devices and techniques for evaluating the long-term dewatering behaviour of oil sands fine tailings.*
Program
Collaborative Research and Development Grants
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
500664-2016
Name nom
Simms, Paul
Department département
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Organization id
23
Institution établissement
Carleton University
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2018
Competition year année de concours
2016
Award amount
240000
Program id
CRDPJ
Program name en
Collaborative Research and Development Grants
Program name fr
Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
141
Committee name en
University/Industry
Committee name fr
Universités/industrie
Area of application code
1002
Area of application group en
Northern development
Area of application group fr
Développement du nord
Area of application en
Environment
Area of application fr
Environnement
Research subject code
1002
Research subject group en
Civil engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie civil
Research subject en
Geotechnical engineering (including engineering geology)
Research subject fr
Géotechnique (y compris génie géologique)
Partie
2
Nb partie
2
Application title
Long term dewatering of amended oil sands tailings
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Management of tailings in the oil sands industry contintues to be a challenege both economically and from an environmental perspective. Many developing technologies appear to be promsing to reduce environmental impacts and to facilitate recalamation of tailings sites and ecological respotration, but substantial room for increasing technical performance and finding cost efficiencies remains. Recent regulatory changes and industry outlook have re-directed priorities towards longer term low cost solutions to dewatering fines grained tailings and facilitiate closure and ecological restoration of tailings ponds over the mine lifetime (20 to 30 year outlook), rather than high cost solutions that target short-term goals. Technically, this leads to a need to better understand the natural long term (months to years) dewatering behaviour of new tailings technologies, which is the scientific focus of the proposed project. The project will develops new measurement devices and techniques for evaluating the long-term dewatering behaviour of oil sands fine tailings.*
