<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mikula, R. J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Payette, C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Munoz, V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lam, W. W.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Microscopic observation of structure in oil sands sludge</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">federal government</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">physical properties</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tailings</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1991</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">04/1991 </style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Petroleum Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining and AOSTRA</style></publisher><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9 pages </style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Freeze fracture preparation and subsequent direct observation of frozen hydrated samples in an electron microscope has been used to characterize the morphology and composition of oil sands sludges. A card house type of structure has long been suggested to explain the long term stability of sludge to consolidation but the relative role of organic/mineral or mineral/mineral interactions in determining the stability of the structure is not well understood. 

Electron microscopic techniques are discussed which might allow direct determination of the relationship between the various sludge components_ Evidence is presented which suggests that it is possible to directly observe the sludge structure. </style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IN: Our Energy Future April 21-24, 1991. Banff, Alberta. Petroleum Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining and AOSTRA. Preprint Paper No. CIM/AOSTRA 91-120. 9 pp.</style></notes><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alberta oil sands </style></custom2><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OSEMB</style></custom4></record></records></xml>