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Vision:
Oil sands operations with a reduced environmental footprint by minimizing water use, consuming less energy, lowering greenhouse gas and other emissions, yielding high quality products at a lower cost.
Mission:
To promote, to build capacities and to fund breakthrough research that leads to environmentally, economically and socially sustainable development of Canada's mineable oil sands resources.
Key Research Priorities
Extraction
IOSI supports research leading to water-free processing of oil sands, including technologies that use substantially smaller volumes of water.
Online Instrumentation for Oilsands
This theme will look at the development of novel sensors or adaptation of existing sensors from other industries for the rapid real-time online measurements of pertinent operational parameters in oil sands extraction and froth treatment process streams.
Product Cleaning and Partial Upgrading
IOSI supports research on new approaches to separation of desirable from undesirable components, reaction of bitumen feeds, catalysis, and production of value-added products. The emphasis of the research is to improve value and at the same time reduce energy consumption and the release of greenhouse gases.
Tailings Process Fundamentals
IOSI research is working toward new methods for the rapid dewatering of tailings, as well as integrating the extraction process with tailings management.