UMATAC Industrial Processes
CORPORATE HISTORY:
UMATAC is a division of UMA Engineering Ltd.
UMA Engineering Ltd. is an AECOM Group company. AECOM is a United States company based in Los Angeles.
UMA is a Canadian engineering and construction services company,
operating since 1911. Current annual business volume is about
$170 million.
UMATAC was formed in 1976.
Average Revenue of the UMATAC Division - approximately $1 to $2
million per year, ranges to $5 million/year depending on
manufacturing schedule.
R&D Expenditure - $0.5 million per year.
Employees: UMATAC
- 15 to 25 total, involved in R&D, engineering, office, laboratory and pilot plant
- 2, Marketing
- 1 UMA Group (marketing)
- Geographic markets - world wide interest; best potential
considered to be in United States, Canada, China, Southeast Asia,
Europe, Australia.
PRODUCTS DEVELOPED:
The Alberta Taciuk Processor and operating plant. Processors can
be supplied in sizes ranging to 1,000 tph feed capacity each,
and in multiples for large plant capacities.
PRODUCTS IN DEVELOPMENT:
New features of the ATP Processor are developed to provide more
versatility of use. UMATAC researchs and develop new adaptations of the ATP as appropriate for various applications.
THE ALBERTA TACIUK PROCESS
UMATAC Industrial Processes (UMATAC) of Calgary developed and
markets the Alberta Taciuk Process (ATP) technology which is a
patented, unique, thermal desorption and hydrocarbon cracking
system for separating and extracting water and organics from
host solids. UMATAC is the developer and supplier, and also the licensee for use of and marketing the ATP System in waste treatment applications.
The ATP was developed as a dry, thermal process to produce oil
from natural resource oil sands and oil shales. It is also
suitable for use in treating contaminated soils, sludges and
wastes in environmental remediation work.
UMATAC supplies the ATP technology under license to industrial
users and also manufactures and supplies the ATP plant
equipment. The ATP has been used commercially on soils
remediation in the United States since 1990. A 10 tph capacity
plant owned and operated by the U.S. licensee for the ATP has
successfully completed PCB clean up of four Superfund sites for
the EPA.
THE ATP FOR OIL PRODUCTION FROM OIL SHALES
The ATP was demonstrated at semi commercial scale as a new technology to produce oil from oil shale in Queensland, Australia. A 4,500 barrels per day production capacity plant was commissioned in 1999 that employed a 250 tph feed capacity ATP Processor to extract hydrocarbons from the mined shale. Secondary processes condensed the vapors and conditioned the oil to market standards.
The Processor is a rotary kiln-type vessel in which the continuous flow feed shale is heated and retorted at approximately 550 deg.C. The size of the cylindrical unit is approximately 8m diameter by 60m long.
Company Details
Year Established:
1976
Total Sales ($CDN):
$500,000 - $1,000,000
Number of Employees:
20
Company Information
Robert M. Ritcey
Title:
Marketing Manager
Area of Responsibility:
Export Sales & Marketing
Telephone:
(403) 873-2378
Fax:
(403) 283-3722
Email:
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Products
Pyrolysis Process
Thermal Process Technology
Thermal retorting process technology and process equipment - the
Alberta Taciuk Process (ATP). It is used to separate, extract or
produce hydrocarbons from host materials, such as oil sands, oil
shales and contaminated soils and sludges.
Soil Remediation Atp Equipment
The ATP is a dry, thermal process technology and system to
produce or extract oil from natural resource oil sands and oil
shales. It is also suitable for use in treating oil contaminated
soils, sludges and wastes in environmental remediation work.
Typical applications in the environmental field are:
Cleaning and recovering oil from wastes produced in oil
field production and operations of oil refineries and
petrochemical plants;
Clean up of soils or other materials which are
contaminated with PCBs or other heavy organic compounds, such as coal tars and industrial chemicals.
Reduction of solid wastes such as plastics and rubber, into
usable oils and other hydrocarbon or energy products.
Alberta Taciuk Process (atp) Technology.
UMATAC developed and markets the Alberta Taciuk Process (ATP) technology which is a patented, unique, thermal desorption and hydrocarbon cracking system for separating and extracting water and organics from host solids.
The ATP was developed as a dry, thermal process to produce oil from natural resource oil sands and oil shales. It is also suitable for use in treating contaminated soils, sludges and wastes in environmental remediation work.
Services
Testing And Evaluating Laboratory
UMATAC operates a development laboratory equipped with batch scale retort facilities and small, continuous flow retorting equipment for testing and evaluating potential applications for the ATP System. Larger scale test work is done with a 5 tph Pilot Processor that is operated in conjunction with the laboratory.