Sentences with phrase «oil sands wastewater»

Frank Gu, a professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo and Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology Engineering, is the senior researcher on the team that was the first to find that photocatalysis — a chemical reaction that involves the absorption of light by nanoparticles — can completely eliminate naphthenic acids in oil sands wastewater, and within hours.

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The technique to extract oil and gas from rock using a high - pressure mix of water, sand or gravel and chemicals produces lots of wastewater, he said.

In an effort to curb carbon emissions, Canadian energy companies have started converting CO2 into products — taking carbon dioxide from processing oil sands, mixing it with wastewater and fed to algae, which then can be turned into cattle feed and other products.

Oil - sands production emits roughly three times the carbon dioxide of conventional light - oil production and the strip - mining operations involved destroy the landscape in northern Alberta, creating large tailings ponds filled with toxic wastewatOil - sands production emits roughly three times the carbon dioxide of conventional light - oil production and the strip - mining operations involved destroy the landscape in northern Alberta, creating large tailings ponds filled with toxic wastewatoil production and the strip - mining operations involved destroy the landscape in northern Alberta, creating large tailings ponds filled with toxic wastewater.