Oil Sands Pilot Plant Design

Our pilot plant is purpose-built to be modular and flexible. This allows our oil sands our client to:

• Quickly configure your flowsheet to address your needs.
• Link your unit operations together quickly and efficiently with minimal set-up and tear-down time.
• Readily swap in various pieces of test equipment to allow optimization.
• Effectively use your plant time to develop data and
• Evaluate technical options right for the oil sands.

The SGS “plug and play” approach to pilot plant operation in the oil sands means our facilities, services, utilities and equipment are designed to allow quick additions or swap-outs, electrical and instrumental quick connects and services, while maximizing safety. We know pilot plant needs constantly evolve and we have provided for this in a way that is cost and time effective.

We expect that the oil sands industry will want to test different flow sheets, operational considerations and a variety of unit operations. No doubt you will want to test different ore types and ore grades and will therefore need a range of easily adapted operating conditions, equipment and reagents. So we have to be flexible and adaptable.

Our facility has been engineered for modularity. We can configure our plant quickly because we have:  

• Wide-open spaces that is fully configurable.
• Strengthened floors that can support heavy equipment.
• Spill containment system that can include sloped floors and deep sumps that can accommodate any spill event.
• All plant discharges are transported from site by certified waste disposal companies.
• Skid-mounted process equipment modules for ease of movement and assembly.
• Services and utilities that are easy to connect to, but out of the way of daily activity.
• A reliable system of spares and maintenance.

Our pilot plant is designed for safety, environmental sustainability, and operational efficiency. Let’s see how this works from Ore Storage to Bitumen Extraction to Froth Treatment.

Click below to see how our pilot plant facility is built for modularity:

SGS Oil Sands Pilot Plant Modularity