Novel polymer aids for low‐grade oil sand ore processing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In the present study, a hybrid Al(OH) 3 ‐polyacrylamide (Al‐PAM) was synthesized and used in combination with a partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) to process a low‐grade oil sand ore. It was found that Al‐PAM was capable to improve bitumen froth quality and tailings settling. But it led to deterioration in bitumen recovery due to the formation of large bitumen lumps during the bitumen extraction process. To resolve this problem, HPAM was added in combination with Al‐PAM as a dual system. The use of the dual system at a low dosage achieved a holistic improvement in bitumen recovery, froth quality, and tailings settling. To understand the role of Al‐PAM and the dual system in the bitumen extraction process, bitumen‐clay, bitumen‐bitumen, and clay‐sand interaction and adhesion forces were directly measured using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The measured forces indicate that bitumen recovery and tailings settling are controlled by the colloidal interaction and adhesion forces between the oil sand components.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".