Abstract
Hydraulic conveying of bulk solids, or ‘slurry transport’, involves the conveyance of solid particles in suspension in a moving liquid. Although the majority of commercially viable slurry pipelines have been constructed to carry mineral particles in water, almost any combination of solids and liquids could be possible provided, obviously, that the solid material is not dissolved or affected in some other unacceptable manner by the carrying liquid. High-tonnage, long-distance transportation of coal, iron, copper, phosphate, limestone and various other minerals in hydraulic pipelines is now a well-established commercial alternative to other modes of bulk solids transport such as lorries, railway trains and barges.
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Woodcock, C.R., Mason, J.S. (1987). Hydraulic conveying. In: Bulk Solids Handling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2635-6_16
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