Reference number : GC-2017-Q3-00336, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Simms, Paul (Carleton University), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Collaborative Research and Development Grants - Project, program name french : Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative - projet, program purpose english : Management of tailings in the oil sands industry contintues to be a challenege both economically and from an environmental perspective. Many developing technologies appear to be promsing to reduce environmental impacts and to facilitate recalamation of tailings sites and ecological respotration, but substantial room for increasing technical performance and finding cost efficiencies remains. Recent regulatory changes and industry outlook have re-directed priorities towards longer term low cost solutions to dewatering fines grained tailings and facilitiate closure and ecological restoration of tailings ponds over the mine lifetime (20 to 30 year outlook), rather than high cost solutions that target short-term goals. Technically, this leads to a need to better understand the natural long term (months to years) dewatering behaviour of new tailings technologies, which is the scientific focus of the proposed project. The project will develops new measurement devices and techniques for evaluating the long-term dewatering behaviour of oil sands fine tailings._x000D_
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_x000D_, program purpose french : Management of tailings in the oil sands industry contintues to be a challenege both economically and from an environmental perspective. Many developing technologies appear to be promsing to reduce environmental impacts and to facilitate recalamation of tailings sites and ecological respotration, but substantial room for increasing technical performance and finding cost efficiencies remains. Recent regulatory changes and industry outlook have re-directed priorities towards longer term low cost solutions to dewatering fines grained tailings and facilitiate closure and ecological restoration of tailings ponds over the mine lifetime (20 to 30 year outlook), rather than high cost solutions that target short-term goals. Technically, this leads to a need to better understand the natural long term (months to years) dewatering behaviour of new tailings technologies, which is the scientific focus of the proposed project. The project will develops new measurement devices and techniques for evaluating the long-term dewatering behaviour of oil sands fine tailings._x000D_
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_x000D_, agreement title english : Long term dewatering of amended oil sands tailings, agreement title french : Long term dewatering of amended oil sands tailings, agreement number : CRDPJ, agreement value : 1075750.0, agreement start date : 2017-11-08, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2021-2022)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2021-2022)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada