简介：声波技术公司和加拿大壳牌能源公司联合组队，研发新型油砂提炼加工工艺。该项研究的专利申请已经获得通过，专利权为壳牌和声波公司附属公司声波油气所共有。该项研究主要是从油砂中提炼沥青。

Sonic Technology Solutions and Shell Canada Energy have teamed up to develop novel oilsands extraction processes, and their work has warranted a patent application. The patent was filed jointly between Shell and Sonic subsidiary SonoOil for the recovery of bitumen from oil sands.

SonoOil is using Sonic’s proprietary ultrasonic energy-generation technology to improve the processing of heavy oils, most notably in Canada’s Athabasca Oil Sands reservoir. Sonic’s platform technology is the high-amplitude/low-frequency Sonoprocess system, which consists of a patented electromagnetic drive system located at each end of a steel bar. The drive system oscillates the steel bar into its natural resonance frequency, generating a powerful pulse that is at least one order of magnitude greater than that of conventional industrial systems, according to the company.

This intense energy is captured and transferred to a sonic reaction chamber. A process stream that enters the chamber is exposed to this energy, creating an environment for high mass-transfer conditions that allow for improved and sustainable separation, according to Sonic.

While the company has employed this technology for the treatment of soil and waste streams from many different industries, its core operations are centered on heavy-oil upgrading processes. The specific collaboration with Shell builds on Sonic’s expertise and application of its core technology and incorporates further work conducted and funded by Shell.  The application was made in Canada and filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, allowing for submissions to other national jurisdictions to be made later.

Adam Sumel, chief executive officer of SONIC, said, “We are very pleased that Shell’s progress to date has borne out our earlier proprietary work which has now been strengthened with Shell’s additional results. The details of the innovation as disclosed in the patent application will be available when the application is published by the patent office.”

To learn more about the Sonoprocess technology, visit www.SONICtsi.com.

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