The efficient combined use of water and energy in long distance slurry pipelines is analyzed in light of the total cost function resulting from an energy and mass balance. Given a system throughput and a set of common ...

This work introduces a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulation for the efficient planning of crude oil supplies to a major refinery, through a long-distance pipeline. The proposed approach combines the ...

Pipelines are the safest and least expensive mode for transporting energy products over long distances. Refined products pipelines convey multiple oil derivatives from refineries to marketing terminals, usually through the ...

Long distance ore pipelines are intensive in water and energy use. Although past efforts have been made to identify the best operational points in terms of energy efficiency, an approach to concurrently include water value, ...

A key aspect of the design of long distance ore concentrate pipelines is the need to properly predict maximum pressures. This is traditionally done by means of transient analysis, thus predicting the possible impact of ...

The term efficiency in hydraulic transport system design and operation has several possible interpretations. Whether it may stand for energy consumption, it may also aim to the minimization of the water or the carbon ...

Water and energy are essential requirements for mineral processing plants, and they can be either scarce or expensive. In the present paper, the implications of a remote water source location (typically the seashore) are ...

The notion of economic pipe size is extended to the case of settling slurries, which are commonly found in high tonnage, long distance pipelines of mineral ores. Water, energy and pipe infrastructure costs have been ...

One of the biggest difficulties of the petrochemical industry today is the logistics of transporting their raw materials and products, because they are always depending on the means of transport available, often do not ...

In the past few years the mineral slurry transportation using pipelines has been of great relevance in the projects run in Brazil and in the world, mainly the iron ore concentrate slurries. There are two pipelines in ...