Water and Energy Recovery from Flue Gas

The main objective of this work is to identify and evaluate technologies which capture water from natural gas combustion flue gas from oilsands steam generators, as well as recover energy from the hot flue gas. This includes classification of technologies to evaluate their fundamentals and technical viability (1), feasibility for a particular SAGD scheme with current technology (2), promising technologies identification (3), technology readiness and attributes (4), and evaluation of advantages and disadvantages to help COSIA to screen the top winners. The outcome of this project is the first phase of a major project leaded by COSIA, which attempts to implement technologies to reduce environmental impacts and higher energy efficiency of in-situ bitumen extraction.

Faculty Supervisor:

Nader Mahinpey

Student:

Partner:

Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program: