Abstract: At least one encoder processor of a simulator data processing system receives simulator data from a plurality of simulators comprising a plurality of video data, including first and second data having different frame rates, and non-audio/visual data, and outputs a respective plurality of compressed video streams. A scheduler of the at least one encoder processor uses frames of the video data to generate scheduled items, specifies a frame rate for capturing the frames, and generates encoded data based on the compressed video streams and the non-audio/visual simulator data. At least one further processor receives, decodes, and processes the encoded data. The at least one further processor executes a media player/renderer application that processes the compressed video streams and displays on the display a plurality of the decoded video data are simultaneously displayed on a display at the specified frame rate, together with information based on the non-audio/visual simulator data.

Abstract: It has been found that tank-type air flotation cells are more efficient, when treating hot water process middlings containing in excess of about 3% bitumen, than trough-type air flotation cells. Also, it has been found that the trough-type cells are more efficient than the tank-type cells when treating middlings containing less than about 3% bitumen. Thus a secondary recovery circuit is proposed wherein the middlings are first treated in one or more tank-type cells in series and the underflow from the last tank-type cell is treated in one or more banks of trough-type cells.

Abstract: In the hot water process wherein tar sand is slurried in a tumbler with hot water and sodium hydroxide, oversized material, rejected from the tumbler, is mixed with a portion of slurry flood water in a second slurrying device and subjected therein to heating and dispersal of bitumen associated with the rejects. A bitumen-containing slurry is produced from the second device and this slurry is combined with the tumbler slurry and subsequently subjected to flotation to recover bitumen.

Abstract: The invention has to do with treatment of dilution centrifuging tailings ch are produced in connection with a hot water extraction operation for recovery of bitumen from oil sands. The tailings are subjected to induced gas flotation for a predetermined period of time to recover contained hydrocarbons as froth.