WORLD'S FIRST IRON ORE SLURRY LINE IS COMPLETED

It takes about 14 hours for the slurry, which has a solids content of about 60%, to travel through the 53 mi 9 in. pipeline from the concentrating plant to the pelletizing plant located at Port Latta on Tasmania's North coast in Australia. The pumping station at the feed end of the pipeline, 90% of which is buried, is equipped with four 600 hp positive displacement pumps. The iron ore concentrate, pulverized to the consistency of talcum powder and mixed in a slurry, is about twice the weight of water.

• Corporate Authors:

  Oildom Publishing Company

  1217 Kennedy Boulevard
  Bayonne, NJ  United States  04002
• Authors:
  • Klinger Jr, O
• Publication Date: 1968-9

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 21-22
• Serial:
  • Pipeline and Underground Utilities Construction
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: Oildom Publishing Company

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Materials management; Pipe flow; Pumps; Slurry
• Old TRIS Terms: Pipeline flow theory; Slurries; Slurry handling techniques; Slurry pumps
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00056050
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: American Petroleum Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 24 1974 12:00AM