Thanks for this opportunity to post this question. I would like to construct a 48 inch wide flat bottom chute, built out of perhaps 1/4 in steel plate. The length is to be about 8 feet. The slurry conveyed will be 56 tons per hour of minus 1 1/2 inch (38 mm) rounded quartzite gravel sand together with 27,000 gallons of water per hour- a 33% solids by weight slurry. The sand is well graded and includes between 5 and 10% of minus 200 mesh clay. The reason for such a wide chute- the reduction of velocity and stratification of the sand helps the machinery that follows.

Now the problem- I would like to make the slope of the chute perhaps 1/2 inch per foot downhill in the direction of flow. I'm quite sure that this will require vibration to move the material along.

Now the question- does anyone have ideas about how many pounds of centrifical force a vibrator would require to move this slurry? Any other ideas to move this slurry along?

Thanks, Bob Ostlund ■