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 ...

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 ...

Slurry pipelines transporting a coarse—the comminution product—and a fine fraction, both in the presence of seawater, can cause an alteration of the liquid phase chemical composition. In the present paper, we present ...

Slurry pipelines transporting a coarse—the comminution product—and a fine fraction, both in the presence of seawater, can cause an alteration of the liquid phase chemical composition. In the present paper, we present ...

One of the important aspects pertaining the mining industry is the use of territory. This is especially important when part of the operations are meant to cross regions outside the boundaries of mines or processing plants. ...

The use of computational fluid dynamics gives new and interesting insights for risk analysis of crosscountry ore hydraulic transport operations. In particular, they offer the possibility to predict, with reasonable accuracy, ...

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 ...

The study about slurrys rheology behavior has been showing a great importance due to the utilization of ores more and more slender. Nowadays, the slurry is present in several stages during processing due to the poor ore ...

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 ...