The role of gas bubbles in bitumen relea
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Jaroslaw Drelich; Dariusz Leliński; Jan Hupka; Jan D. Miller
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Article
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1995
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Improved efficiency in bitumen recovery was observed in laboratory experiments when oil sand pulp was intentionally aerated by air sparging during digestion. The mechanism of gas bubble attachment to bitumen lenses (at the surface of sand grains), the spreading of bitumen on a gas bubble and the rel