I am more of a dry materials handling man getting into slurry pipelines.
I am looking at a 6km tailing pipeline that needs to be able to hand quite a variable slurry.
What is the best way to approach this. Is this complex slurry or can I just do some of the calcuation I find books by BEA jacobs or Abulnaga +10% power.
What are the pitfalls?
Should I get a slurry expert to design such a pipeline or could it be done using calcuations found in textbook?
Tailings Pipeline Needs an Expert or Not
Hello all,
I am more of a dry materials handling man getting into slurry pipelines.
I am looking at a 6km tailing pipeline that needs to be able to hand quite a variable slurry.
What is the best way to approach this. Is this complex slurry or can I just do some of the calcuation I find books by BEA jacobs or Abulnaga +10% power.
What are the pitfalls?
Should I get a slurry expert to design such a pipeline or could it be done using calcuations found in textbook?
Slurry details below. Basically a gold tailings.
Slurry density is 1.3-1.5,
13-21% solids by volume
Particle size
1mm 0.32%
0.85mm 0.62%
0.5mm 1.58%
0.35mm 2.88%
0.25mm 6.43%
0.15mm 10.17%
0.11mm 9.64%
0.075mm 10.41%
0.045mm 15.18%
0.038mm 5.19%
0.025mm 5.13%
-0.025mm 32.91%
Best regards,
G ■