UMATAC Industrial Processes
Calgary, AB
Company Overview
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 Information
Physical Address
208-280 Midpark Way SE
Calgary, AB T2X 2B5
CA
Mailing Address
208-280 Midpark Way SE
Calgary, AB T2X 2B5
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: UMATAC Industrial Processes, Div of UMA Engr.
Number of Employees: 20
Total Sales ($CDN): $100,000 - $200,000
UMATAC has unique expertise in the technology of thermal pyrolysis with continuous flow, multi-chambered, rotating vessels.
Additional expertise includes the use of the ATP technology to process candidate feedstocks, ranging from oil resource materials (oil sand, oil shale) to organically contaminated soils and wastes.
Footprint area of the ATP pilot plant is 1, 100 sq. meters. The pilot plant is located in Calgary on a land lot size of 16 ha. Numerous support buildings and facilities include a testing laboratory.
Contacts
Robert M. Ritcey
Title: Marketing Manager
Area of Responsibility: Export Sales & Marketing
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Services
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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.
Products
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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.
- Pyrolysis Process
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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.
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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.
NAICS Categories
- 333299 All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
- 541330 Engineering Services
- 541380 Testing Laboratories
Additional Information
333299, 541330, 541380
Australia, Estonia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa, United States
Azerbaijan, Colorado, Utah