Distribution and slurrying apparatus

Patent · Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 1970

OSTI ID:5371593

Spragins, F K

An apparatus for the primary separation of a bituminous emulsion from an aqueous slurry of tar sand is described. The apparatus consists of a tank with a sand discharge port in its bottom, and a number of horizontally movable distributor arms connected to a rotatable vertical slurry feed tube. A rotating screw conveyer is axially mounted within each distributor arm, and acts both to move the slurry outward in the arm and to effectively disperse the slurry. Each distributor arm has a multiplicity of outlets along the sides, preferably equally spaced with the outlet closest to the feed tube being on the top of the distributor arm and the outlet furthest from the feed tube being located on the bottom of the distributor arm while the intervening outlets are equally spaced in descending locations. Such a primary separation apparatus is particularly useful in the production of synthetic crude oil from a mineral hydrocarbon material such as tar sand or oil shale. (7 claims)

• Assignee: Imperial Oil Ltd.
• Patent Number(s): US 3525439
• OSTI ID: 5371593
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 4 Nov 1968
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
BITUMENS
PRODUCTION
OIL SANDS
PROCESSING
OIL SHALES
RETORTING
SHALE OIL
CONVEYORS
DESIGN
DISTRIBUTION
EQUIPMENT
OPERATION
ROTATION
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SLURRIES
WATER
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DECOMPOSITION
DISPERSIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HAULAGE EQUIPMENT
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
MATERIALS
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
MINERAL OILS
MIXTURES
MOTION
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
SUSPENSIONS
TAR
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