Characterization of Products from the Incorporation of Renewable Feedstock in the Production of Partially-Upgraded Bitumen Using Selective Radical Integration Technology

TWD是一家领先的跨专业工程、采购和建筑管理公司，为其客户提供项目开发、执行和工程服务。该公司的专业知识涵盖石油和天然气、管道、终端和混合、可再生能源、电力、化学加工以及食品和饮料行业。TWD还在开发一种独特的加工技术，用于沥青的部分升级，提供一种可通过管道输送、可供炼油厂使用的合成原油产品，该产品碰巧也含有大量可再生碳。*这项技术旨在解决加拿大经济日益严重的问题。沥青被认为是流动性不好的重质石油。炼油厂和管道通常无法处理100%的重质石油，因此，加拿大的沥青出口比轻质原油有很大折扣，需要使用稀释剂来运输。这项技术的独特之处在于，它在升级过程中使用了从可再生原料中提取的化学品，如生物质，以便纳入可再生碳成分。目标是在不使用稀释剂的情况下以高产量向炼油厂生产可输送到炼油厂的管道产品的同时，实现可再生碳的集成。*为了实现这一目标，必须识别该过程的所有液体、固体和气体产品。必须测定液体产品的产量和组成，并将其与传统工艺的部分改质沥青进行比较。TWD的目标是与谢里登学院合作，开发从这一独特的部分升级过程中收集、提取和表征产品的方法。使用谢里登化学和环境实验室的最先进仪器，该项目的结果将决定产品的适销性和TWD工艺技术的经济可行性。**

TWD is a leading multi-discipline engineering, procurement and construction management company in the business of providing project development, execution and engineering services to their clients. The company's expertise spans the oil and gas, pipelines, terminalling and blending, renewables, power, chemical processing, and food and beverage sectors. TWD is also in the midst of developing a unique process technology for the partial-upgrading of bitumen that provides a pipeline-able and refinery-ready synthetic crude oil product, which also happens to contain a significant amount of renewable carbon.****This technology is meant to address a growing problem for the Canadian economy. Bitumen is considered heavy petroleum that does not flow well. Refineries and pipelines are generally not able to handle 100% heavy petroleum and, as a result, Canada's bitumen is exported at a significant discount compared to lighter crude oils and requires the use of diluents to transport it. The technology is unique in that it uses chemicals derived from renewable feedstock, such as biomass, in the upgrading process in order to incorporate a renewable carbon component. The objective is to accomplish this renewable carbon integration while producing a pipeline-able product to the refinery in high yields without the use of diluents.****In order to reach this objective, all liquid, solid, and gas products of the process must be identified. The yield and composition of the liquid product must be determined and compared against partially-upgraded bitumen from conventional processes. TWD aims to partner with Sheridan College to develop methods for the collection, extraction and characterization of products from this unique partial-upgrading process. Using state-of-the-art instruments from Sheridan's Chemical & Environmental labs, the results of this project will determine the marketability of the products and economic feasibility of TWD's process technology.**