Pipe Flow Technology Centre™

The Pipe Flow Technology Centre™ is acknowledged as an international leader in its field. Our employees offer an unparalleled degree of experience in assisting industry with practical pipeline applications.

SRC's Pipe Flow Technology Centre™ is fully equipped to enable full-scale physical modeling of the complex pipe flow behaviour of slurries and crude oil mixtures. Actual pipe flow conditions are obtained in a laboratory environment where temperature, flowrate, and mixture composition can be controlled, and instrument performance can be optimized.

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SRC Working with Industry

SRC's research and development in pipe flow technology helps resource industries expand the horizons of how and where they operate. We conduct commercial-scale studies of clients' concepts for safe, cost-effective:

• extraction
• transport
• processing
• waste disposal of mineral and oil resources

Our clients, large and small, understand the power of pipe flow technology to transform the way they do business. Since 1967, SRC's Pipe Flow Technology Centre™ has collaborated with Canada's key industries on a range of ground-breaking pipeline and fluid mechanics applications. A few examples are:

• hydrotransport of oil sand slurries to enable remote mining
• horizontal well recovery and production of heavy oil
• paste backfill disposal of industrial tailings

Publications

We have produced numerous confidential reports for clients on topics such as oil sand mixtures, mineral slurries, and heavy crude oil mixtures.

We also produce publicly available research. To view a list of papers produced in the last several years, go here.

Pipeline Hydrotransport with Applications in the Oil Sand Industry - Order Form

Authors: R.G. Gillies, C.A. Shook, & R.S. Sanders

Pipeline Hydrotransport with Applications in the Oil Sand Industry provides a summary of the principles of fluid mechanics as they apply to pipeline hydrotransport and especially slurry flow. In addition to providing a resource for engineers and scientists working in the oil sand industry, it will be of interest throughout the mineral and chemical process industries. For more information on this book, go here.

Chapter list:

1. Basic Concepts and Definitions
2. Slurries
3. Pipeline Flow of Homogeneous Slurries
4. Heterogeneous (Settling) Slurries
5. Deposition Velocities for Settling Slurries
6. Pressure Drop Predictions for Heterogeneous (Settling) Slurries
7. Measurement Techniques
8. Hydrotransport in the Oil Sand Industry
9. Slurry Pumps

Address:

Pipe Flow Technology Centre™
Saskatchewan Research Council
Bay 1 & 2, 820 - 51st Street East
Saskatoon,SK   S7K 0X8