In December 2014 the Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility (OSTRF) and the University of Alberta Geotechnical Centre were hosts to the 4th International Oil Sands Tailings Conference.
Some videos of presentations from the conference can be found below:
- Dr. David Sego - Welcome to the 2014 Conference
- Andy Ridge - Advancing and Integrated Approach to Tailings Management: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Alan Fair & Al Hyndman: Oil Sands Tailings: An Historical Perspective. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
- Dr. John Sobkowicz - Ingenuity Gap in Oil Sands Tailings Technology
- Dr. Nicholas Beier - Cross Flow Filtration Assessment by TMSim
- Dr. Heather Kaminsky - Measuring Strength in Oil Sands Tailings Deposits
- Jonathan Matthews - COSIA Collaboration on Tailings Treatment
- Dr. Ron Currie - Towards a COSIA standard for fines measurement in oil sands
- Dr. John Sobkowicz - Guidelines for Performance Management of FFT for Mine Closure
- Ruijun Sun - Column Consolidation Testing of Oil Sands Tailings
- Feixia Zhang - Permeability in Drying Tailings
- Dr. Heather Kaminsky - Demystifying the Methylene Blue Index
- Srboljub Masala - Geotechnical Insights Into Thickened Tailings; Shell Tailings Testing Facility
- Lois Boxill - Predicting Dewatering and Material Performance of Flocculated MFT
- Ruijun Sun - Capture sand in flocculated fines
- Dr. Reza Nik - Conventional oil sands tailings can achieve fines captures of 60% & higher
- Dr. Aref Najafi - Flooding tailings after thin lift drying
