SOME PUMPING CHARACTERISTICS OF COAL CHAR SLURRIES

Some pumping characteristics of coal char slurries were studied with water, mineral oil, and a petroleum recycle oil as slurry media. Brookfield viscometer data showed that the viscosity of the slurries could be reduced by adding minus 325 char, and data obtained in a 1 in. dia model pipeline led to the prediction that pumping costs for a 50% by wt char-water slurry would be 0.16 cents/ton/mi, comparable with those of other commercial slurry pipelines. The recycle oil was used because of its resemblance to the product oil from the coal upgrading process being developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Office of Coal Research under the COED (Char Oil Energy Development) project.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 156th ACS National Meeting, Atlantic City, N.J., Sept. 9-13, 1968.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Chemical Society

  Division of Fuel Chemistry
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States 
• Authors:
  • Sacks, M E
  • Rommey, M J
  • Jones, J F
• Publication Date: 1968

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 29-40
• Serial:
  • Publication of: American Chemical Society
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Chemical Society

Subject/Index Terms

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

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00056051
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: American Petroleum Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 24 1974 12:00AM