| Publication Date |
1983 |
| Personal Author |
Burnett, M.; Rubin, L. S.; Harvey, A.; Roberge, J. C.; Cardenas, R. L. |
| Page Count |
264 |
| Abstract |
An inducer-type pump, capable of injecting dry coal into a hydraulic transport pipeline was developed and installed in a specially designed and fabricated slurry injector vehicle. The full-scale prototype injector system can deliver up to 11 ton/min of coal into an 8-in pipeline at pressures up to 95 lb/sq in. The helical inducer injector operates on centrifugal principles with flow passing axially through a helical-pitched conical rotor. Water is delivered to the pump through an annular slot at the atmospheric pressure coal inlet. The spinning rotor maintains an air-core vortex of water that pressurizes the discharge housing. A screw feeds coal through the open inlet into the vortex. The inner radius of the vortex contracts as pressure is increased, giving a limiting maximum pressure that is proportional to the square of the rotor speed. Below this limit, flow rate, discharge pressure, and rotor speed are independent variables. The self-powered, 42-in-high slurry injector vehicle follows and receives run-of-mine coal from a continuous miner, reduces the top size to 3-in, and delivers the sized coal to the injector feed screw for slurry formation and pumps it through a mobile hose attached to the vehicle's outby end. |
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| Source Agency |
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| NTIS Subject Category |
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| Corporate Authors |
Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA.; Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC. |
| Document Type |
Technical Report |
| Title Note |
Open file rept. 1 Jul 75-30 Apr 83. |
| NTIS Issue Number |
198508 |
| Contract Number |
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