by Admin | Apr 15, 2020 | News, Slider
Across the Alberta oil sands, more than 250 square kilometres of tailings ponds hold a hazardous slurry of water, residual bitumen and fine clay particles — the byproduct created from the bitumen extraction process. Before those ponds can be reclaimed as forests or...
by Laurel Williams | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
TORONTO, Oct. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – ElectroKinetic Solutions Inc. (EKS) Chair and President James Micak announced today the appointment of Shaun Kavalinas as the new Chief Executive Officer. Shaun’s appointment is...
by Laurel Williams | Aug 26, 2019 | News, Slider
In August 2019, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources announced an investment of close to $2 million for ElectroKinetic Solutions Inc. to field test a new dewatering technology that will speed up the process to reclaim new and legacy oil sands mine tailings...
by Laurel Williams | Jan 30, 2018 | Benefits
EKS-DT reduces the demand on fresh water sources by increasing the water available for reuse and decreases the disturbed land footprint from tailings handling, storage, and disposal. The EKS-DT process is clearly environmentally superior to current technologies on all...
by Laurel Williams | Jan 30, 2018 | Benefits
EKS – Dewatering Technology process test results demonstrate clearly that the overall impact of EKS-DT will be to improve the long-term sustainability of Alberta’s oil sands industry. Social Responsibility The EKS-DT process is clearly socially superior to...
by Laurel Williams | Jan 30, 2018 | Benefits
EKS has prepared a detailed quantitative life cycle analysis for its technology and used these results to compare its economic and environmental performance with other dewatering technologies. The EKS-DT process clearly out performs existing technologies. Competitive...
by Laurel Williams | Jan 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ongoing EKS-DT process optimisation research is being conducted in collaboration with Western University.
by Laurel Williams | Jan 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
EKS has developed a number of patented innovations that have resulted in major improvements in the capital and operating costs of the EKS-DT process as well as improvements in the performance of the dewatering process itself.
by Laurel Williams | Jan 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
EKS is pleased to have been identified by Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) as a company that is helping to drive innovation in the oil sands industry. EKS is proud of the recognition the industry is giving it’s ElectroKinetic Solutions –...
