Organic constituents in process water from tar-sand oil recovery

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5299599

Raphaelian, L A; Harrison, W; Torpy, M F

Capillary-column gas-chromatography/mass-spectrometry was performed on acid, base, and neutral fractions of liquid filtrates and particulate-phase methylene chloride extracts of composite samples of raw process water collected from two in situ tar-sand oil recovery experiments. The experiments, conducted by Laramie Energy Technology Center, were the reverse/forward combustion experiment (TS-2C) of 1977 and the steam injection experiment (TS-1S) of 1980. Some 143 extractable/chromatographable organic compounds were tentatively identified in the TS-2C sample, and 95 were identified in the TS-1S sample. The predominant organic groups in the TS-2C process water included cyclic cyclohexonyl compounds, acetophenones of ketones, and alcohols in the neutral fraction; quinolines and isoquinolines, pyridines, phenyl piperidines, and pyrazoles in the base fraction; and phenols, carboxylic acids, and lactones in the acid fraction. Predominant in the TS-1S process water were alkenes or cyclohexanes, cyclic ketones, and toluenes in the neutral fraction; quinolines and isoquinolines, acridines, pyrazoles, pyridines, phenol piperdines, and piperidines in the base fraction; and phenols in the acid fraction.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5299599
• Report Number(s): ANL/PAG-6; ON: DE82012597
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACETOPHENONE
ACRIDINES
ALCOHOLS
ALKANES
ALKENES
AMINES
AROMATICS
AZINES
AZOLES
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
COMBUSTION
CYCLOALKANES
CYCLOHEXANE
DATA
ENERGY SOURCES
ENHANCED RECOVERY
ESTERS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLUID INJECTION
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
HETEROCYCLIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
IN-SITU COMBUSTION
IN-SITU PROCESSING
INFORMATION
KETONES
LACTONES
LIQUID WASTES
MASS SPECTROSCOPY
MATERIALS
NUMERICAL DATA
OIL SANDS
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDATION
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHENOLS
PIPERIDINES
PROCESSING
PYRAZOLES
PYRIDINES
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
QUINOLINES
RECOVERY
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SPECTROSCOPY
STEAM INJECTION
THERMAL RECOVERY
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
TOLUENE
WASTE WATER
WASTES
WATER