Energy Foot-Print Reduction for Ethylene Manufacturing Process
With facilities in Calgary and Joffre, Nova Chemicals manufactures chemicals, plastic resins, and end products while working to keep their environmental impact to an absolute minimum. This energy efficiency project aimed to reduce GHG emissions by improving separation processes in ethylene manufacturing through innovative micro-porous molecular sieves that separate similar hydrocarbon molecules. Current ethylene manufacturing…
Effective Solvent Extraction Incorporating Electromagnetic Heating (ESEIEH)
Reducing bitumen extraction with electromagnetic heating and solvents Funded through Round 1: Open Call in 2010, the Effective Solvent Extraction Incorporating Electromagnetic Heating (ESEIEH®) Project aimed to replace steam for in situ bitumen extraction with electromagnetic heating in combination with solvent dilution. The project was completed in 2023 and evaluated the efficacy of this combination…
Commercial Demonstration of ET-DSP(TM) in the Athabasca Oil Sands
Established in 2004, E-T Energy Ltd.’s team of eight scientists is developing environmentally friendly, energy efficient and economically viable methods of oil sands production through the process of Electro-thermal Dynamic Stripping (ET-DSP™). This is an electrical heating technology used extensively in the environmental industry to remediate contaminated soil and groundwater. E-T Energy Ltd. will operate…
