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Elizabeth Amos and Meaghan McTiernan

QUIP Experiences

Agenda

• Introduction
• QUIP Program Overview
• Relation to CHEE 221
• Internship Incentives
• Q&A

Elizabeth Amos

• Fourth Year Chemical

Process Engineering Student

• Canadian Natural

Resources Ltd. – 16 months – Heavy Oil Field Operator – Exploitation/Production Engineer – Heavy Oil Plant Operator

CNRL Internship Students

Meaghan McTiernan

• Suncor Energy for 12

months – Process Engineering Development (Oil Sands & In‐Situ)

• Supported Upgrading at

base plant in Fort McMurray

• Main projects included

Caustic Injection, DB Desalting and re‐writing coker fractionator protocol

Suncor Family Day Volunteers at the Calgary Stampede 2014

QUIP Overview

• 12‐16 months degree related, paid internship
• Completion of 2nd or 3rd year
• Register with QUIP, attend workshops and use

QUIP job postings to apply

• Professional Internship degree designation
• One year pre‐graduation

experience towards P. Eng

• Test a career in a particular

Industry

• Fall Preview Day Oct 25th 11‐2

Companies that Hired Queen’s Interns

AECON Agriculture and Agri‐Foods Canada Agrium Altera AMD Armstrong Fluid BlackBerry Bombardier Bowen/Cenovus Brock Solutions Ciena Corporation CNRL Enbridge Ericcson GE GM Greer Galloway Halla Honda Husky Energy Hydro One IBM McAfee Miller Group Ministry of Transportation Neptec NOVA Chemicals OPG PCL Construction Prysmian Recognia Shell Sherritt Suncor Teck Toronto Hydro Vanhawks

DB Desalting Overview

• Problem: Chloride content, asphaltenes and

naphthenic acids in the feed to the Upgrader expected to increase

• In the presence of steam, corrosion and fouling

become significant issues

DB Desalting

• New technology on mined bitumen (widely used in

Refineries)

• Removes salt from the oil through use of emulsion

forming & breaking as well as electrostatic grids

• Vessel internals are proprietary to Cameron;

implementation into the plant done by my team

Process Design

• Aim to minimize cost; only monitor what is needed

– ex. monitor flow exiting the vessel and induce flow into vessel (CSTR)

• Composition matters!
• Determine vessel operating conditions

– what are your desired parameters? – what results will you accept?

Internship Incentives

Internship Incentives

Fernie, BC CNRL Employee Day, Zip lining CNRL Golf Tournament Calgary Stampede

Internship Incentives

Questions?

Elizabeth Amos: 9eaa@queensu.ca Meaghan McTiernan: 0mm93@queensu.ca QUIP: quip@queensu.ca

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