Energy efficient slurry holding and transport

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 705-712

  Wu, Jie ^a   Graham, Lachlan ^a   Wang, Steven ^b   Parthasarathy, Rajarathinam ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Slurry pipelines; Slurry tanks; Slurry transport; Solids suspension; Specific energy consumption (SEC)

Indexed keywords

BASIC EQUATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY SAVING; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; HOLDING TANK; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LARGE SIZES; LIMITING FACTORS; LOW VISCOSITY; MINERAL PROCESSING INDUSTRY; MIXING TANKS; NEWTONIANS; PER UNIT; PIPE DIAMETER; RESEARCH AREAS; SLURRY PROPERTIES; SOLIDS CONCENTRATIONS; SOLIDS SUSPENSION; SPECIFIC ENERGY; SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION (SEC); TANK DIAMETERS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MINERAL INDUSTRY; PIPELINES; SLURRY PIPELINES;

SLURRIES;

EID: 77955305686     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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