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8. A method of archiving media, comprising:
receiving a plurality of media items; and
on a one-by-one basis:
scanning, with a scanning device, a bar code label attached to one of the plurality of media items;
creating, with an RFID label printer, a unique encoded RFID label corresponding to the bar code label scanned by the scanning device, the unique encoded RFID label comprising a data field including a cart identifier to which the scanning device and the RFID label printer are attached and a serial number;
removing the bar code label;
attaching the unique encoded RFID label where the bar code label was previously located; and
repeating the scanning, the creating, the removing, and the attaching with another of the plurality of media items.
9. The method of claim 8, further comprising scanning, after the attaching, the unique encoded RFID label to confirm the cart identifier and the serial number are in the data field.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising storing, in a control device operable with the scanning device and the RFID label printer, the data field.
11. The method of claim 10, further comprising associating, in the control device, the data field with a customer identifier.
12. The method of claim 10, further comprising delivering, from the control device, stored data fields corresponding to the plurality of media items to a control system.
13. The method of claim 8, further comprising archiving the one of the plurality of media items and the another of the plurality of media items.
14. he method of claim 13, further comprising auditing the plurality of media items by rescanning, with a portable scanning device, at least one of the one of the plurality of media items or the another of the plurality of media items to confirm archival of the same.
15. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving, in a control device operable with the scanning device and the RFID label printer, from a control system, a download file comprising a plurality of allowed data fields, each of the plurality of allowed data fields being associated with a predefined customer identifier.
16. A method of controlling a cart configured for label replacement in a media item archival system, the method comprising:
selecting, in a control system operable with the cart, a customer identifier;
selecting, in the control system, the cart, wherein the cart is identified with a unique cart identifier;
creating, in the control system, a download file comprising a plurality of allowed print values, each of the plurality of allowed print values comprising the unique cart identifier;
downloading the download file to a control device of the cart; and
uploading a plurality of unique encoded RFID label data fields each comprising the unique cart identifier and a serial number.
17. The method of claim 16, further comprising auditing the media item archival system by:
creating an audit file, the audit file comprising a plurality of identifiers, each identifier comprising:
customer indicia identifying a customer;
media type indicia identifying a type of media item to be audited; and
location indicia indicating a storage location within the media item archival system;
uploading the audit file into the control system;
downloading a search file from the control system into a portable scanner; and
receiving a scan file in the control system from the portable scanner, the scan file indicating whether each item listed in the audit file was found in the media item archival system.
18. The method of claim 17, further comprising associating the each identifier with a data field printed on a RFID label of a single media item stored within the media item archival system.
19. The method of claim 17, further comprising receiving a work order, the work order comprising a list of a plurality of media items to be archived, wherein the download file is based in part from the work order.
20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:
receiving the plurality of media items listed in the work order; and
on a one-by-one basis:
scanning, with a scanning device, a bar code label attached to one of the plurality of media items;
creating, with an RFID label printer, a unique encoded RFID label corresponding to the bar code label scanned by the scanning device, the unique encoded RFID label comprising a data field including the unique cart identifier and the serial number;
removing the bar code label;
attaching the unique encoded RFID label where the bar code label was previously located; and
repeating the scanning, the creating, the removing, and the attaching with another of the plurality of media items.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method comprising:
passing a solvent through a first quantity of bituminous material; and
passing water through the first quantity of bituminous material;
wherein the solvent comprises a paraffinic solvent.
2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:
loading the first quantity of bituminous material into a sealed vessel prior to passing the solvent and the water through the first quantity of bituminous material.
3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the sealed vessel is a sealed vertical column having a top end and a bottom end opposite the top end.
4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein passing the solvent through the first quantity of bituminous material comprises:
adding the solvent at the top end of the sealed vertical column;
introducing inert gas into the sealed vertical column at the top end of the sealed vertical column and pushing the solvent down through the bituminous material loaded in the sealed vertical column; and
collecting the solvent exiting the bottom end of the sealed vertical column.
5. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the solvent exiting the bottom end of the vertical column comprises solvent and bitumen.
6. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein passing the water through the first quantity of bituminous material comprises:
adding the water at a top end of the vertical column;
introducing inert gas into the vertical column at the top end of the vertical column and pushing the water down through the bituminous material loaded in the vertical column; and
collecting residual solvent exiting the bottom end of the vertical column.
7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the bituminous material comprises oil sand.
8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the bituminous material is solvent-wet.
9. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the bituminous material loaded in the vertical column comprises a plurality of interstitial pores, and wherein the ratio of volume of water passed through the first quantity of bituminous to total volume of the plurality of interstitial pores is from 1:1 to 5:1.
10. The method as recited in claim 2, further comprising:
removing the first quantity of bituminous material from the sealed vessel after passing the water through the first quantity of bituminous material.
11. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein the bituminous material removed from the sealed vessel comprises less than 200 ppm on a weight basis of solvent and less than 2% by weight bitumen.
12. A method comprising:
providing a bituminous material comprising a paraffinic solvent;
passing water through the bituminous material and pushing paraffinic solvent out of the bituminous material; and
collecting paraffinic solvent pushed out of the bituminous material.
13. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the bituminous material comprises bitumen-depleted tailings derived from oil sands.
14. A method comprising:
contacting a bituminous material with a solvent and forming solvent-wet bituminous material;
contacting the solvent-wet bituminous material with water and forming a water-wet bituminous material;
wherein the solvent comprises a paraffinic solvent.
15. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein contacting the bituminous material with the solvent comprises:
mixing the bituminous material with the solvent and forming the first solvent-wet bituminous material; and
separating a bitumen-enriched solvent phase from the first solvent-wet bituminous material using a hydrocyclone.
16. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein contacting the solvent-wet bituminous material with the water comprises:
mixing the solvent-wet bituminous material with water and forming the water-wet bituminous material; and
separating a mixture of solvent and water from the water-wet bituminous material using a hydrocyclone.