Pilot Scale Testing Facility
A facility with high ceilings and open areas to accommodate large devices not possible in regular spaces
Location:
NAIT Main Campus
Edmonton, Alberta
Size:
12,000 sq. ft.
What this space offers
NAIT’s pilot scale testing facility has been specifically designed to provide the space required for large scale projects, fabrication and assembly. This facilitates pre-field testing of larger scale equipment.
Suitable for:
- Tailings treatment
- Industrial water treatment
- Oil sands tailings management
- Chemical evaluation
- Water treatment
- Developing and enhancing oil sands extraction and analytical measurements
- Screening for tailings treatment
- Fundamentals of fluid fine tailings
- Impact of clay minerals on oil sands tailings
Select equipment and features
- A 29,000 square foot specialized wet lab with custom walk-in fume hoods
- High-temperature membrane testing platform
- Large-scale test area with reinforced floor to support heavy loading
- A hot water extraction area with industry standard bench-top extraction units and a unique large batch extraction unit
- Fume-hood-scale instrumentation oil-in-water and water-in-oil test loops designed to simulate key process conditions, for the evaluation of new sensor technology
- Highly instrumented tailings test columns for large-scale evaluation of tailings consolidation behaviour
- Drive-in bays capable of accommodating ISO standard containers and tractor trailers, facilitating the logistics of transporting large volumes of material