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Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a technology used for acquiring qualitative and quantitative information about materials with broad applications in industries such as food processing, precision agriculture, and environmental monitoring.
HyperScan™ is ConeTec's solution for rapid oil sands tailings constituent analysis, providing measurements of:
- Bitumen
- Solids
- Water
- MBI
- Total Fines
- FFW
This technology uses hyperspectral reflectance data from tailings samples in visible, near infrared and shortwave infrared. HyperScan™ testing is performed in minutes and provides on site results. Lab-quality tailings constituent data, from the field, in real time.
advantages
- Faster and less expensive compared to lab analysis.
- Environmentally conscious, eliminating shipping GHGs and offsite plastic and soil waste.
- Enables adaptive management of tailings pilots and site investigations.
- Enables rapid, on-site analysis with immediate release of tailings characteristics.
- HSI repeatability and reproducibility are higher than model errors, confirming reliability.
- Supports machine learning calibration of tailings data to lab results.
applications
- Used for in-situ, on-site, and off-site characterization of oil sands tailings.
- Applicable to tailings materials included in the development dataset (excluding natural soils, oil sands ore, and petroleum coke).
specifications
- Custom-designed mobile laboratory.
- Solar-powered lab trailer equipped with battery reserves for zero-emission testing operations.
- Machine Learning models developed using a paired dataset of hyperspectral and laboratory results are used to estimate the constituents.
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