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 ■