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The support you need to build high-quality temporary structures All the technical, business, and legal know-how you need to build and maintain 17 different temporary support and access structures has been gathered in one convenient problem-solver. In the completely revised Second Edition of the Handbook of Temporary Structures in Construction, Robert Ratay and a team of experts provide you with full coverage of the latest construction materials and methods--different contracting techniques--new codes and standards--new dispute resolution procedures--tested cost controls--using temporary structures in repair and rehab work--OSHA updates on construction site safety--and much more..
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The most comprehensive resource on slurries and slurry systems, covering everything from fluid mechanics to soil classification, pump design to selection criteria.

Slurries are mixtures of liquids and solid particles of all types. For instance, liquid is used as a way of transporting what you get out of the mine, which might be better than shoveling it into freight cars and carrying it out by train.

Slurry systems are fundamental to dredging, many mineral processes, bridge and tunnel construction, and to the manufacturer of synthetic petroleum products from oil sands..
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Vast tonnages of solid-liquid mixtures are pumped every year in dredging operations, mining and waste-disposal applications. Most of these systems are centrifugal pumps, and the resolution of problems encountered in slurry pumping requires both detailed scientific knowledge and judgment derived from practical experience.

 

For many years the combination of up-to-date analysis and hands-on experimentation has been provided to interested engineers in a short course based at the GIW Hydraulic Laboratory. The lecturers in this course, who represent a broad background of international expertise, have prepared this widely-recognized text, Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps, Third Edition.

 

This unique text is logically divided into two sections: the first part of the book concentrates on the behaviors of various sorts of slurry flow, and the second part deals with the behavior of centrifugal pumps handling slurries, and with how pumps and pipelines interact as a system.

 

Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps, Third Edition also includes:

• New material on both non-Newtonian flows and slurries of granular particles.
• New information on pump wear, solids effect, and system operation.
• Updated and completely new material on pump selection and environmental aspects
• Worked examples and case studies that stress practical applications

Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps, Third Edition, will be of interest to all engineers and technologists involved in the large-scale transportation of slurries.

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