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Working Together to Accelerate InnovationCOSIA: Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance
Why is oil sand different from other oil?
Source: Cenovus
How Bitumen Is Currently Produced Using SAGD
Our Vision
To enable responsible and sustainable growth of Canada’s oil sands while delivering accelerated improvement in environmental performance through collaborative action and innovation.
We agreed to share
Companies share innovation and intellectual property
Sharing is done in a manner that values and protects corporate technologies, but still provides access for the COSIA companies who can apply and build on these technologies to accelerate environmental performance improvement in their operations.
Sharing started with COSIA's Environmental Priority Areas and expanded to include all oil sands technology
COSIA brings together leading thinkers from industry, government, academia, aboriginal communities and the wider public to help advance innovation and environmental performance.
Aspirations
We take pride in what we do and will strive to…
Produce oil with lower greenhouse gas emissions than other sources of oil.
Be world leaders in land management, restoring the land and preserving biodiversity of plants and animals.
Be world leaders in water management, producing Canadian energy with no adverse impact on water.
Transform tailings from waste into a resource that speeds land and water reclamation.
COSIA Planning Framework
Integral to how we operateTo achieve our Ambition, we:
– Identify and assess the relative size of the technical Opportunity Areas
– Define Gaps in Opportunity Areas; some expressed as public Challenges
– Launch Projects to close Gaps and solve Challenges
Project Portfolio
Gaps
(COSIA company
and Associate
Member access) Challenges(public access)
Opportunity Areas
Ambition
Aspirations &
Performance Goals
COSIA Charter
&
Vision
Associate Members
INDUSTRY HUBS ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
COSIA Challenge Statements
Innovation requirements to fill the identified gaps in knowledge and technology
COSIA seeks to mobilize the minds and resources of external stakeholders and global solutions providers
Challenges provide focused, actionable descriptions of the current state of certain gaps and the desired outcomes
Technologies at all stages of technical maturity are of interest.
COSIA Challenge statements posted at: http://www.cosia.ca/challenges
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Direct Hot Water Production for Oil Sands Mining & Extraction Process
New High Efficiency Boiler
Higher Value Use of Low Grade Heat
Enriched Combustion Air
Natural Gas Decarbonization
Water and Energy Recovery
New Heat Exchanger
Pressure Let Down
Quantification of Area Fugitive Emissions
Post Combustion CO2 Capture from Natural Gas Combustion Flue Gas
All COSIA Challenges posted at www.cosia.ca
10 GHGGlobal Challenges
What else do we do?
Creating public tools to speed collaboration and innovation.
Eg. Mining & In Situ Reference Facilities
Description:
– Presents an energy and material balance for typical oil sands facilities, to help non-oil sands innovators visualize.
Benefits:
– Evaluation of emission reduction technologies in a consistent and comparable way.
Glycol Air Cooler
125 GJ/h Diluent
Total Air Cooler Heat Released to Atmosphere Glycol Return 50 °C 5.8 °C
GJ/hr 71 °C 40 °C Produced Gas Cooler
(relative to ambient air) GJ/h 4.41 GJ/h
1.2 GJ/h 128 °C 55 °C
55 °C
Produced
Gas
Emulsion / BFW
Exchanger Sales Oil Coolers Heat Exchangers Legend
Emulsion 137 GJ/h 43.9 GJ/h Dilbit
PADS 175 °C 133 °C Oil Treating 131 °C 50 °C Process to Process
129 °C
129 °C
106 °C Hot Glycol
144 °C
Produced Water Cooler Cold Glycol
13.4 GJ/h PW / BFW Exchanger
85 °C 90.3 °C 85 GJ/h Direct Contact/Quench
97.2 °C 106 °C
Reservoir
Make-up Water Heater Exchangers Duty
22 GJ/h GJ/h
Make-up Water Emulsion / BFW 136.9
69 °C 40 °C 5 °C Produced Water Glycol Cooler 13.4
18.1 GJ/h PW / BFW Exchanger 84.5
De-Oiling / Water Treatment PW / MU water exchanger Produced Gas Air Cooler (s) 3.5
Air Glycol Heater 2 Diluent Glcyol Heater 4.4
BFW 82 °C 13 GJ/h Sales Oil Coolers 43.9
55 °C Make-up Water Glycol Heater 21.8
PW / MU water exchanger 18.1
Blowdown Glycol Cooler 79.3
Stack Losses BFW Preheaters 86.7
Stack 100.9 GJ/hr OTSG Air Glycol Heaters (two services) 22.7
BD Water to Disposal 80 °C Air Glycol Preheater 195 °C (LHV basis) OTSG Air Preheater (Flue Gas) N/A
Water Heat to Earth 80 °C 9.16 GJ/h Forced Draft Fan Utility Coolers 11.4
20 GJ/hr Blowdown Cooler Air 20 °C Fan 33 °C Glycol Air Cooler 124.7
(based on 5°C Ground Temp) 79.3 GJ/h 5 °C
Electrical Loads Power Equivalent Heat
HP Steam MW GJ/h
310 °C BFW HP BFW Pump 4.8 31.1
170 °C LP BFW Pump 0.8 5.2
Downhole Pumps 2.6 17.0
Radiation Losses Pad Auxiliaries 1.3 8.5
HPS 310 °C 32.1 GJ/hr Forced Draft Fan 3.7 24.0
Utility Steam (relative to ambient) Misc Users 1.9 12.2
kg/h OTSG VRU Compressors 2.1 13.7
BFW Preheaters WLS/Evaporator 0.5 3.1
186 °C 86.7 GJ/h Glycol System 0.4 2.5
Total 17.9 117.3
220 °C
Direct CO2 Generation MT/day 417.6 kg/m3 Bitumen
GJ/h Indirect CO2 Generation MT/day 62.5 kg/m3 Bitumen
Total CO2 Emissions MT/day kg/m3 Bitumen
55 °C Assumes electricity grid CO2 emissivity of 763 kg CO2eq / MW-hr
Combustion Air Direct Emissions from Combustion only
Inputs Energy
HP BFW Pump GJ/h
146 °C Natural Gas 1538
Electrical Power 117.3
Produced Gas 51.1 °C
40 °C 63 GJ/h (LHV) Total 1655
30 GJ/hr (LHV)
Glycol Heater Natural Gas Glycol Heater
1.16 GJ/h
5 °C
GJ/h GJ/h Natural Gas
Tracing & Utility Heat Input (LHV)
Building Heat Coolers GJ/h
128.2
1538
Base Case: WLS - OTSG ENERGY FLOW DIAGRAM
1.8
Vapor
Recovery
328
2,191
480.12,519
Preflash
Vessel
2.4
11.4
15,133
35.0
LP Steam
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Innovation in Action –E-TAP
Environmental Technology Assessment Portal
Assess potential solutions to current and future technology gaps and opportunities.
Technology can be submitted for assessment, through an online non-confidential disclosure.
Anyone can submit an idea for assessment.
All third party intellectual property rights completely protected.
Project Portfolio - Results
TO DATE:
Technology Sharing
936 technologies costing $1.33 billion to develop
Active Projects
276 projects = $680 million
Implementation Decisions
347 implementation decisions on technologies developed & shared
Land Performance Goal – In Situ
Alternative Restoration Equipment
Project Description
Cenovus and partners ConocoPhillips, Devon and Nexen are further evaluating use of amphibious equipment and other alternative restoration equipment types and methods through a large-scale operational trial
will evaluate the use of a tree spade on an amphibious trackhoe to live transplant trees, and their understory plant community, from undisturbed forest onto the areas being restored
Environmental and Business Benefits
Amphibious vehicles do not compress the soil and are much less likely to leave ruts or get stuck, reducing the overall environmental footprint.
restore more than twice the land area per day compared to standard machines.
Greatly extend the traditional midwinter operating season and improve restoration success
Water Performance Goal – In Situ
Water Performance Goal - Mining
Water Best Practices Working Groups
Project Description
Operators meet to share their practices at annual forums and site visits
2015 best practices topics were boiler feed water practices, seeded slurry evaporators, an update on process water coolers, membranes, water treatment, and increased steam quality
2016 focused on sharing information on tracking of fouling within steam generators and ion exchanger operational performance
Environmental and Business Benefits
Operational reliability improvements can be directly related to environmental benefits.
The Best Practices WG allows companies to learn from successes and failures that other members have experienced through day-to-day operation of their facilities. Sharing practical knowledge contributes to lowering the risk associated with the deployment of new practices, and accelerating the pace of such deployment.
Cost savings are also realized through improved operational performance
GHG –Opportunity Areas & Gaps
NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
Tailings solvent recovery unit heat recovery, Phase II
COSIA in space: satellite monitoring of area fugitive emissions
Evaluating molten carbonate fuel cells for carbon capture
Interactive in situ flowsheet model
Oil sands mine and extraction reference facility
Carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery unit in Horizon hydrogen (H2) plant
COSIA ARCTIC Waste Heat Recovery Challenge Sprint Stage III
COSIA ARCTIC Mining Hot Water Production Sprint Stage I
GHG Highlighted Projects
COSIA GLOBAL NETWORK MAP
NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZECompetition Overview
March 24, 2016
NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
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COSIA Joint Industry Project: ConocoPhillips Canada (lead), Cenovus, CNOOC Nexen, CNRL, Devon, Imperial, Shell, Suncor
NRG: diverse U.S. power company
XPRIZE Foundation: U.S. non-profit organization that fosters incentive competitions to motivate innovative ideas and technologies for problems once thought “unsolveable”
NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
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Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre
Overview
Participants
COSIA Members:
Power Generation Companies: With financial support from NRCan and InnoTech Alberta
Vision
Create an innovation space to bridge the gap between lab and commercial scale
Support and accelerate carbon conversion technology development to reduce emissions
Bring great minds together to spark innovative ideas
Technology Centre Specifications
Hosted by Shepard Energy Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Five testing bays ~2,200 square meters (24,000 square feet) each
Flue gas from combined cycle natural gas power plant containing between 2 and 5 metric tons of CO2 per day for each bay.
Supply of electricity 600 V 3 phase 2MVA
Supply of fresh water 5-20 m3/day
Natural gas supply 400-1500 Sm3/day
400 bbl waste tank for each bay
Open for Testing After NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
Technology Centre
Capitalize on technology centre successes — create new industries and revenue streams for Alberta.
Owned and operated by InnoTech Alberta, a subsidiary of Alberta Innovates
Supporting organizations in the city such as Calgary Economic Development, KineticaVentures, SAIT, University of Calgary, and COSIA
