Transporting highly concentrated slurries with centrifugal pumps : the thickened minerals tailings example

• Main Author: Wennberg, Thord
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och naturresurser 2010
• Subjects: Metallurgy and Metallic Materials; Metallurgi och metalliska material; Bingham; Luossavaara; Svappavaara; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-17214

New technologies are continuously considered for the handling and deposition of tailings. With thickened tailings only a fraction of water used conventionally reaches the disposal area, thus limiting sizes of water holding dam facilities and areas to be rehabilitated. Heat may also be recovered with...