ABSTRACT

Canada has extensive bitumen resources that are at par with Saudi Arabia’s conventional oil reserves.1 Oil sands are unconsolidated deposits of very heavy hydrocarbon bitumen and require multiple stages of processing before režning.2 Bitumen

14.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................203 14.2 Computational Technique .............................................................................206 14.3 Kohn-Sham DFT and 3D-RISM-KH Theory Overview ............................207