J. Zhang, T. Srivastava, B. Yu, T. K. Sraw, A. Feng, W. Wang, X. Liu, C. Kaur, D. Sweeney, J. Pan, S. Patel, M. Z. Islam, R. Fedosejevs, M. Gupta, Y. Tsui, A. Sedgwick, A. Junaid
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This study reports the development of a real time in situ analyzer for solids content measurement at different depths in oil sands tailings ponds. The analyzer uses an optical light scattering technique for the measurements and a low-level source (below license limits) gamma-ray transmission technique for in situ calibration. The technology has been successfully demonstrated at laboratory-scale, and a prototype is currently being developed for large-scale testing.