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.
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.
Book Currently Available
Pipeline Hydrotransport with Applications in the Oil Sand Industry
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:
- Basic Concepts and Definitions
- Slurries
- Pipeline Flow of Homogeneous Slurries
- Heterogeneous (Settling) Slurries
- Deposition Velocities for Settling Slurries
- Pressure Drop Predictions for Heterogeneous (Settling) Slurries
- Measurement Techniques
- Hydrotransport in the Oil Sand Industry
- Slurry Pumps
Pipeline Hydrotransport Publication Order Form
A Course on Slurry Pipeline Design & Operation, October 13 -14, 2010
The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) offers a comprehensive course in slurry pipeline design and operation. SRC has conducted hundreds of slurry pipeline R&D programs and developed a primarily mechanistic model describing the pipeline flow of settling slurries.
The course focuses on applying the basic principles of slurry pipeline flows to actual design situations, including conventional slurry and thickened slurry systems.
Instruction will be provided by Dr. Sean Sanders of the University of Alberta. Dr. Sanders is the scientific advisor to SRC’s Pipe Flow Technology Centre™.
October 13-14, 2010, at the Quality Hotel & Conference Centre, Fort McMurray, AB
Registration Fee is $1,600 + GST
Registration Deadline is September 27, 2010
Please view brochure for more information
Pipe Flow Technology Centre Brochure
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Address:
Pipe Flow Technology Centre™
Saskatchewan Research Council
Bay 1 & 2, 820 - 51st Street East
Saskatoon,SK S7K 0X8
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