Control systems for slurry pipelines

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 1984 · Instrum. Min. Metall. Ind.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6507019

Copeland, R W

The pipeline industry has been involved in the transportation of slurries since the late 1950's with over twenty major commercial installations operational to date. With the increasing demand for coal as a primary energy source, the transportation of coal slurry over long distances is becoming a reality and pipelines to support this requirement are being designed today. This paper addresses some of the particular requirements imposed on the control systems aspects of water carrier slurry pipelines. Although not intended to cover all of the specific control methods chosen to meet all the requirements of this type of pipeline operation, this paper indicates which tools in local and supervisory control systems are needed to successfully implement the specific control methods. Superiority of systems as described in this paper already include the areas of: control capabilities, maintainability, design and implementation, flexibility and growth. All of these factors will contribute significantly towards the success of the large coal slurry pipeline applications. A high level of support for the type of system described in this paper has been found with leading control system manufacturers which are offering more of these systems as a standard products.

• Research Organization: Bechtel Petroleum Inc.
• OSTI ID: 6507019
• Report Number(s): CONF-8405167-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Instrum. Min. Metall. Ind.; (United States) Journal Volume: 11
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
013000* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Transport
Handling
& Storage
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
COMPUTERS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DESIGN
DIGITAL COMPUTERS
DISPERSIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FREIGHT PIPELINES
FUEL SLURRIES
FUELS
HYDRAULIC TRANSPORT
IMPLEMENTATION
MANUFACTURERS
MATERIALS
MIXTURES
PIPELINES
SLURRIES
SLURRY PIPELINES
SUSPENSIONS
TRANSPORT