Treatment of heavy crude oil and bitumen recovery from surface tar sands with magnetized oxygen/air micro nano bubbles water

A method for extracting bitumen from tar sands, comprising the steps of:

• passing tar sands through a feed hopper;
• mixing the tar sands with a first micro nano bubbles stream in a grinding mill to partially treat the tar sands;
• routing the partially treated tar sands to a slurry tank under fluidized conditions;
• maintaining a high concentration of oxygen micro nano bubbles by injection of a mixture of micro nano bubbles and NH4OH/H2O2 solution into the slurry tank;
• and
• recirculating an effluent stream of tar sands and micro nano bubbles water from and back to the slurry tank.

A system for the treatment of heavy crude oil with magnetized oxygen/air micro nano bubble water, comprising:

• a first magnetic unit for magnetizing a mixture of heavy crude oil, oxygen, and micro nano bubbles water;
• an interim tank for separation of solids from the heavy crude oil;
• a pump for pressurization of the heavy crude oil and water exiting the interim tank;
• a second magnetic unit for magnetizing the heavy crude oil and water;
• a hydrocyclone unit for separation of water and solids from the magnetized heavy crude oil and water from the second magnetic unit.