typically it involves drilling wells to pump steam into the ground to melt the bitumen and make it easier to suck up to the surface.
典型的工艺是先鉆井,然后通过井眼将蒸汽泵入地下,油砂中的沥青被蒸汽熔化,这样便容易被抽吸至地面。
inside them, the world’s largest dumptrucks ferry paydirt to nearby separation plants, where the tarry soil is crushed and diluted until bitumen can be skimmed off.
在矿坑内,世界上最大的倾卸卡车将这些黑金运到附近的分离工厂,在这里,这些含有沥青的土被压碎和稀释,沥青然后就浮于表面可以被分离出去。
the most common technique in new projects involves injecting the bitumen with steam underground.
在新的工程中最常用的技术,则是往地下的沥青中注入蒸汽。
in fact, a speciality crude is suitable only for bitumen production.
事实上,这种特性的原油只适宜于生产沥青。
just last month someone used a bulldozer and plowed a two-foot-deep gash in the desert, unearthing the brick and bitumen remains of a stairway possibly leading to another cemetery.
就在上个月,还有人用推土机,在沙漠中犁出一个两英尺深的大裂缝,挖掘到一段楼梯的砖块和沥青碎片,这可能通向另一片墓地。
to get usable oil from this mixture, producers have to separate the bitumen from the sand using hot water, and then process the bitumen into crude oil.
为了从混合物中得到油,开采者用热水把沥青跟沙子分开,再把沥青加工成原油。
in the paper, the performance of the modified emulsified bitumen used as penetrated oil layer is discussed by its application to the beijing-zhangjiakou expressway.
通过对京张高速公路路面施工中以改性乳化沥青作为透层油的工程应用,结合实践对其作用进行探讨。
when using fixed installations for melting bitumen at construction sites in cities and towns, these fixtures should be of the sealed type.
城镇建筑施工熔化沥青使用固定熔化装置时,应当采用密闭方式。
further development in canada's oil sands is contingent not only on oil prices above $60 per barrel but also clarity about how canadian bitumen will be treated in the u.s.
加拿大是否进一步开采油砂不仅取决于油价是否处于每桶60美元之上,而且取决于美国能够明确对加拿大沥青的态度。
the photograph was made using a camera obscura and a sheet of pewter coated with bitumen of judea, an asphalt that when exposed to light, hardened permanently.
他采用照相暗盒和一块白蜡上涂上曝光后会永久硬化的沥青——朱迪亚沥青。
i’m surprised it wasn’t mounted on a block of bitumen
我很奇怪,为什么不把畸形鱼作为标本放在一块沥青架子上。
if the viscous mixture of bitumen and oil in the pipeline spills on her land, she asks, “who’s going to eat my beef?
她问,如果管道里粘稠的沥青和石油混合物在她的牧场上泄漏,“谁还吃我的牛肉呢?
oil sands consist of clay, sand, and other minerals, coated in water and thick, viscous oil called bitumen (or asphalt).
油砂包含有粘土、沙子和其它矿物,由水和粘稠的沥青把它们混合在一起。
petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals.
石油焦、石油沥青及其他石油或从沥青矿物提取的油类的残渣。