


var glossaryTerms = new Array();

glossaryTerms[0] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[0][0] = 'Draglines and bucketwheel reclaimers';
glossaryTerms[0][1] = 'Draglinesxandxbucketwheelxreclaimers';
glossaryTerms[0][2] = 'Large draglines would mine the oil sand and place in windrows for BWR to place onto conveyor system for transport to dump pocket. ';


glossaryTerms[1] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[1][0] = 'Primary Separation Vessels';
glossaryTerms[1][1] = 'PrimaryxSeparationxVessels';
glossaryTerms[1][2] = 'Deep cone vessels designed to recover most of the bitumen. Froth floats to the top, sand settles to the bottom and the middlings are pumped to Tailings Oil Recovery.   ';


glossaryTerms[2] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[2][0] = 'Auxiliary Settling Areas';
glossaryTerms[2][1] = 'AuxiliaryxSettlingxAreas';
glossaryTerms[2][2] = 'Smaller versions of PSVs.';


glossaryTerms[3] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[3][0] = 'Vacuum Distillation Unit';
glossaryTerms[3][1] = 'VacuumxDistillationxUnit';
glossaryTerms[3][2] = 'Vacuum tower in which gas oils are flashed off and sent to hydrotreaters, bypassing cokers and LC Finer.';


glossaryTerms[4] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[4][0] = 'Diluent Recovery Units';
glossaryTerms[4][1] = 'DiluentxRecoveryxUnits';
glossaryTerms[4][2] = 'Where gas oils, naphtha and water are separated from bitumen.';


glossaryTerms[5] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[5][0] = 'Tailings Oil Recovery';
glossaryTerms[5][1] = 'TailingsxOilxRecovery';
glossaryTerms[5][2] = 'Froth from the TOR vessels is recycled to the PSVs to improve its quality.';


glossaryTerms[6] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[6][0] = 'Froth Treatment Plant';
glossaryTerms[6][1] = 'FrothxTreatmentxPlant';
glossaryTerms[6][2] = 'Removes water and solids from the bitumen froth by diluting with naphtha and feeding either two stages of centrifuges or inclined plate settlers (IPS).';


glossaryTerms[7] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[7][0] = 'Syncrude Sweet Blend';
glossaryTerms[7][1] = 'SyncrudexSweetxBlend';
glossaryTerms[7][2] = 'A synthetic crude oil consisting primarily of naphtha, light gas oil and heavy gas oil.';


glossaryTerms[8] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[8][0] = 'Secondary Upgrading';
glossaryTerms[8][1] = 'SecondaryxUpgrading';
glossaryTerms[8][2] = 'The processing stage in which impurities such as sulphur and nitrogen are removed using hydrogen and catalyst. ';


glossaryTerms[9] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[9][0] = 'Trucks and shovels';
glossaryTerms[9][1] = 'Trucksxandxshovels';
glossaryTerms[9][2] = 'Shovels dig oil sand, 400-ton trucks haul it to crushers. ';


glossaryTerms[10] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[10][0] = 'Primary Upgrading';
glossaryTerms[10][1] = 'PrimaryxUpgrading';
glossaryTerms[10][2] = 'The processing stage in which bitumen is separated into various streams of hydrocarbons.';


glossaryTerms[11] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[11][0] = 'Vibrating Screens';
glossaryTerms[11][1] = 'VibratingxScreens';
glossaryTerms[11][2] = 'where large materials such as rocks, sticks and lumps of clay are rejected prior to the slurry entering the Superpot. ';


glossaryTerms[12] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[12][0] = 'Surface mining:';
glossaryTerms[12][1] = 'Surfacexminingx';
glossaryTerms[12][2] = 'Technique used to remove all material exposing the desired ore deposit.  ';


glossaryTerms[13] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[13][0] = 'Hydrotransport';
glossaryTerms[13][1] = 'Hydrotransport';
glossaryTerms[13][2] = 'A pipeline designed to carry oil sand slurry from Mining to Extraction facilities at both Mildred Lake and Aurora. ';


glossaryTerms[14] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[14][0] = 'Light gas oil';
glossaryTerms[14][1] = 'Lightxgasxoil';
glossaryTerms[14][2] = 'Hydrocarbon with 30 to 40 carbon atoms per molecule.';


glossaryTerms[15] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[15][0] = 'Heavy gas oil';
glossaryTerms[15][1] = 'Heavyxgasxoil';
glossaryTerms[15][2] = 'Hydrocarbon with 40 to 70 carbon atoms per molecule.';


glossaryTerms[16] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[16][0] = 'Hydrotreater';
glossaryTerms[16][1] = 'Hydrotreater';
glossaryTerms[16][2] = 'Where product streams are saturated with hydrogen and passed through catalyst to remove sulphur and nitrogen impurities.';


glossaryTerms[17] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[17][0] = 'Distillation';
glossaryTerms[17][1] = 'Distillation';
glossaryTerms[17][2] = 'Turning liquid into vapour – usually done by heating.';


glossaryTerms[18] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[18][0] = 'Overburden';
glossaryTerms[18][1] = 'Overburden';
glossaryTerms[18][2] = 'A layer of rocky, clay-like material directly above the oil sand deposit. ';


glossaryTerms[19] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[19][0] = 'Distilled';
glossaryTerms[19][1] = 'Distilled';
glossaryTerms[19][2] = 'Turning liquid into vapour – usually done by heating.';


glossaryTerms[20] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[20][0] = 'LC-Finer';
glossaryTerms[20][1] = 'LCxFiner';
glossaryTerms[20][2] = 'A continuous hydrocracking process, which breaks bitumen down through hydrogen addition over an expanded ebullating catalyst bed to produce a lower boiling product.';


glossaryTerms[21] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[21][0] = 'Crushers';
glossaryTerms[21][1] = 'Crushers';
glossaryTerms[21][2] = 'Two rollers to break up large chunks of oil sand.  ';


glossaryTerms[22] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[22][0] = 'Slurry';
glossaryTerms[22][1] = 'Slurry';
glossaryTerms[22][2] = 'A mixture of oil sand and water.  ';


glossaryTerms[23] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[23][0] = 'Naptha';
glossaryTerms[23][1] = 'Naptha';
glossaryTerms[23][2] = 'Hydrocarbon with 4 to 15 carbon atoms per molecule.';


glossaryTerms[24] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[24][0] = 'Froth';
glossaryTerms[24][1] = 'Froth';
glossaryTerms[24][2] = 'A foamy bitumen, water and air mixture. ';


glossaryTerms[25] = new Array(3);
glossaryTerms[25][0] = 'Coker';
glossaryTerms[25][1] = 'Coker';
glossaryTerms[25][2] = 'Where bitumen is cracked by heat into its fractions of naphtha, light gas oil and heavy gas oil for further processing. ';

