Research Papers

GIW personnel have published papers on a variety of topics relating to slurry transport technology. A bibliography of all papers appears here.

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Analytical Model and Experimental Studies on Slurry Flow and Erosion in Pump Casings, Roco, M.C. and Addie, G.R., 8th International Technical Conference on Slurry Transportation, STA, 1983.

Application of Materials Wear Testing to Solids Transport via Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Pagalthivarthi, K.V., and Helmly, H.W., ASTM Conference San Antonio, TX, 1990.

Application on a Non-Newtonian Carrier to Transport Coarse Coal Refuse, Duckworth, R. Alan and Addie, Graeme R., 12th International Conference on Slurry Technology (STA), 1987.

Casing Headloss in Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Roco, M.C., Nair, P., and Addie, Graeme, ASCE/ASME Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Published in ASME Vol. G00293, 1985, Revised for publication in Journal of Fluid Engineering, 1982.

Centrifugal Slurry Pump Performance Parameter Characterization UB, Sellgren, Anders and Addie, Graeme, 9th Intl. Freight Pipeline Symposium, Monterey Mexico, 1998.

Centrifugal Slurry Pump Wear, Technology and Field Experience, Graeme R. Addie, Krishnan V. Pagalthivarthi, and Robert J. Visintainer, ASME Fluids Meeting 1996, San Diego, CA.

Corrosion and Erosion Effects on Materials for Slurry Pumps, Day, Wallace.

Corrosion-Wear Behavior of Some High Alloyed White Irons and Stainless Steels, Tian, Harry and Addie, Graeme, AFS Congress 1997.

Cost-effective pumping of coarse mineral products using fine sands, Sellgren, Anders and Addie, Graeme, Journal: Powder Technology, 1997 Article: 3345.

Deposition-limit nomograms for particles of various densities in pipeline flow, Wilson, K.C. (1979), Proc. Hydrotransport 6, BHRA Fluid Engineering, Cranfield, UK.

Description and Economic Justification of a Matrix Pipeline Positive Feed System, Hagler, T.W., Addie, Graeme R., Devries, J. and Verhoeff A.

Design And Application, Slurry Pump Technology, G. Addie, R. Visintainer, J. R. Kadambi, 9th International Symposium on Liquid-Solid Flows,2005 ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Houston, Texas, June 19 - 23, 2005.

Design, Selection, Sizing and Control Considerations for Cyclone Feed Slurry Pumps, Addie, Graeme R. and Sellgren, Anders, 9th Annual Intl. Freight Pipeline Symposium, Monterey, Mexico, April 1998 (Powder Technology 3824 (1999).

Determination of the Effect of Solids on Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Sellgren, Anders, Turner, Thomas M., and Addie, Graeme, Annual AIME Regional Phosphate Conference, September 1990.

Determination of the Operating Velocity for Phosphate Matrix Slurry Pipelines, Graeme Addie, Anders Sellgren, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, AIME/ASME Regional Phosphate Conference, 1996.

Determination of the Operating Velocity and Friction Losses for Dredge Slurry Pipelines, Anders Sellgren, Graeme R. Addie and M. R. Carstens, Western Dredging Association (WEDA), 18th Annual Meeting and Technical Conference, Charleston, S.C. June 1997.

Development of a PC Program for Design and Analysis of Slurry Pumps, 2nd Computer Applications in the Mineral Industry, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 1991.

Development of a New Large Dredge Pump, Visintainer, Robert J. and Addie, Graeme R.m (CEDA) Central Dredging Association, Amsterdam, 1993.

Development of Corrosion Resistant White Irons for Use in Phos-acid Service, Harry Tian, Graeme Addie and Robert S. Hagler, AICHE Central Florida Meeting 1996, Clearwater, FL.

Doppler Flow Meter Test at Georgia Iron Works, Addie, Graeme R., Maffett, John R., - GIW Industries and DiNapoli Louis and Punis, Giancarlo - Leeds & Northrup Co., Instrument Society of America, 1980.

Diameter and Concentration Effects in Stratified Slurry Flows, Sundqvist, Asa Thesis, Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.

Dredge Pump Performance Prediction, Roco, M.C., Marsh, M. Addie, Graeme R., and Maffett, John R., ASME, Eighth Annual Energy-Sources Technology Conference, Dallas, TX, February 1985, Revised Publication in Journal of Pipelines, 1986.

Dredge Pump Testing Considerations, Addie, Graeme, Whitlock, Lee, and Dresser, Jim, WEDA XXI – Texas A&M 33rd Annual Dredging Seminar, Houston, TX , June 24-27, 2001.

Economical Feasibility of Pumping Coarse Mine Residual Products, Sellgren, Anders, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden and Addie, Graeme, Hydromechanisation 8, International Colloquium & Workshop, Magdeburg, Germany, Sept. 1993.

Effect of Coarse and Heavy Solids Particles on Centrifugal Pumps Head and Efficiency, Sellgren, Anders and Addie, Graeme, 47th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Edmonton, Oct. 1997.

Effect of Non-Newtonian Mineral Suspensions on the Performance of Centrifugal Pumps, Sellgren, Anders, Addie, G. R., and Yu, Wei Chung, The Rheology in the Mineral Industry Conference, Feb. 1997.

Effect of Sand-Clay Slurries on the Performance of Centrifugal Pumps, Sellgren, Anders, Addie, Graeme and Scott Stephen, 49th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Oct. 1999.

Effect of Solids Concentration on Deposit Velocity, Wilson, K.C., Queen’s University, Journal of Pipelines, pp. 251-257, 1986.

Effect of Solids on Large Centrifugal Pumps Head and Efficiency, Sellgren, Anders and Addie, G. R., Central Dredging Association, CEDA, Amsterdam, 1989.

Effect of Solid on the Performance of Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Sellgren, Anders and Addie, G.R., 10th Colloquium: "Massenguttransport durch Rohrleitungen," Meschede, Germany, 1992.

Effect of Wear on the Performance of Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Addie, Graeme R. and Sellgren, A., ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Washington, D.C. 1998.

Effective Integrated Mine Waste Handling with Slurry Pumping, Sellgren, A. and Addie, G., Tailings and Mine Waste 98,Colorado, January 26-29, 1998.

Erosion of Concentrated Slurries in Turbulent Flow, Roco, M.C., Nair, P., Addie, Graeme R., and Dennis, John, Journal of Pipelines, Vol. 4, pp 213-221, 1984, Printed in The Netherlands by Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam.

Erosion Wear in Slurry Pump and Pipes, Roco, M.C.- University of Kentucky, and Addie, Graeme-GIW Industries, Inc., 1st World Conference on Partical Flow, Nuremburg, W. Germany, April 1986, Also published Journal Powder Technology.

Experiences with a Numerical Method of Calculating Slurry Pump Casing Wear, Addie, G. R., Visintainer, R. J., and Roco, M.C., 4th International Pump Symposium and Short Courses Texas A&M, Houston, TX, May 1987.

Experimental Study of the Fullscale Pipeline Transport of Phosphate Matrix Slurries, Duckworth, R. Alan, Addie, G.R., and Maffett, J.R., AIME Regional Conference (Florida) October 28-29, 1988. (NOT AVAILABLE, See BHRA Hydrotransport 11 same paper).

Factors Associated with the Application and Design of a Modern Dredge Pump, Addie, Graeme, Dresser, J.A. and Neetzke, Jorg, CEDA Dredging Day 1997.

Factors Involved in the Pumping of Non-settling Slurries with Centrifugal Pumps, Sellgren, Anders, Addie, Graeme, and Juzwiak, John Rheology in the Mineral Industry II, Oahu, Hawaii, 1999.

Feasibility Of Transporting Contaminated Sediments As A Slurry Using Centrifugal Pumps, G. Addie, L Whitlock, A. Sellgren, 2005.

Finite Element Prediction of Free Surface Flow in Coriolis Wear Tester, Pagalthivarthi, Krishnan V., Ramanathan, Veeraraghavan and Visintainer, Robert J. ASME Fluid Engineering Summer Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1998.

Florida Phosphate Matrix Pump and Pipeline Operating Efficiencies, Addie, G., Gorthy, W., Duvall, R. SME, Orlanda, FLA, March 1998.

Friction Losses of Stratified Flows at High Solids Concentrations, Sundqvist, Asa Thesis Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.

Full Scale Experimental Study of the Pipeline Transport of Phosphate Matrix Slurries, Duckworth, R. Alan, Addie, G.R., and Maffett, J.R. (BHRA) Hydrotransport 11, England, 1989.

Georgia Iron Works/Stapel Land Dredge Story, Addie, G.R., Hagler, T.W. and Hagler, R. Round Table - Fertilizer Industry, Buena Vista, FLA 1994.

High Capacity Sag Mill Cyclone Feed Pumps, Graeme R. Addie, Donald G. Ashe Second International SAG 96 Conference, Van Couver, B.C., Canada, 1996.

Improving Slurry Pump Vane Inlet Wear, Addie, Graeme R., Hergt, Peter, and Mueller, Thomas ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Boston, MA, June 2000.

Influence of Carbide Morphology and Hardness of the Sliding Wear Performance of the Chromium-Nickel White Irons, Calboreanu, G. A. and Addie, G.R. ASME Wear of Materials, 1989.

Influence of Non-Metallic Inclusions on the Mechanical Properties of Steel and the Factors Involved in Modigying the Inclusion Morphology Calboreanu, George A., Metallurgical Seminar Georgia Institute of Technology, October, 1984.

Investigations of Slurry Flow In A Centrifugal Pump Using Particle Image Velocimetry, Charoenngam, P., Subramanian, A., Kadambi, J., Addie, G. 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF – 2001, New Orleans, LA May 27-June 1, 2001.

Life Extension of Slurry Pumps Using Adhesively Bonded Ceramic Inserts Kramer, L. D. and Addie, G. R. Proc. Welding and Repair Technology for Power Plants, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), pp. 367-378.

Mechanistically-Based Method for Scaling Pipeline Tests for Settling Slurries, Clift, Roland, Wilson, Kenneth C., Carstens, M.R., and Addie, Graeme R., (BHRA) Hydrotransport 8, Johannesburg, S.A., August 25-27, 1982.

Mine Waste Disposal by Pipeline using a Fine Slurry Carrier, Duckworth, R. Alan, Addie, G.R., and Maffett, John Slurry Technology Conference, Hilton Head, SC, March 1986.

Modeling Erosion Wear in Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Roco, M.C., Addie, Graeme, Dennis, John, and Nair, P., (BHRA) Hydrotransport 9, Rome, Italy, Octobr 17-19, 1984.

Modeling Fracture Toughness in High Chromium White Cast Iron, Crepaeu, P.N., Antolovich, S.D. - Georgia Institute Technology and Calboreanu, G.A., AFS Tranactions.

Modeling of Slurry Pump Nose Wear, Addie, G., - GIW Industries, Inc. & Bross, S. – KSB Germany 15th Annual Regional Phosphate Conference, Lakeland, FL, October 19-20, 2000.

Near-Wall Fluid Lift of Particles in Slurry Pipelines, Wilson, K.C., Sellgren, A., and Addie, G.R. 10th International Conference on Transport and Sedimentation of Solids Particles Wroclaw, Poland, September 4-7, 2000.

Net Positive Suction Head Requirement for Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Whitlock, L., Sellgren, A and Wilson, K. The 3rd Israeli Conference for Conveying & Handling of Particulate Solids Grand Nirvana Hotel, The Dead Sea, May 29-June 1, 2000.

Numerical Simulation of the 3D Flow Field Through a Slurry Pump, Maurer, W., Skoda, R., Frobenius, M., Schilling, R., Mueller, T., Addie, G. 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF – 2001, New Orleans, LA May 27-June 1, 2001.

Numerical Study on the Vane Overlap for Dredge Pump Impellers, Mueller, T., Baumgarten, S. and Visintainer, R. WEDA XX Conference & Texas A&M Dredging Seminar, Warwick, RI, June 25-28, 2000.

Operating Points for Heterogeneous Slurry Pipelines, Wilson, K.C., Clift, R., and Sellgren, A. 10th International Conference on Transport and Sedimentation of Solid Particles Wroclaw, Poland, September 4-7, 2000.

Optimum Wearing High Efficiency Design of Phosphate Slurry Pump, Roco, M.C., Addie, Graeme, Visintainer, R.J., and Ray. E.L., Slurry Technology Conference, Hilton Head, SC, March 1986.

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Investigations of Flow in a Centrifugal Slurry Pump, Mahiwan, K., Subramanian, A., Kadambi, J. R., Wernet, M. P., Courtwright, R., Visintainer, R. 9th (Millennium) International Symposium on Flow Visualization, Edinburgh, August 22, 2000.

Particulate Motion and Concentration Fields in Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Pagalthivarthi, K.V., Desai, P.V. and Addie, G.R., Fine Particle Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 1990.

Performance of High Pressure Slurry Pumps in Oil Sand Tailing Application, Addie, G., Dunens, E. and Mosher, R. 8th International Symposium on Freight Pipelines, September, 1995.

Performance Testing at the Georgia Iron Works Hydraulic Laboratory, Addie, Graeme R. Proceedings of the Twelfth Dredging Seminar, Texas A&M University, August, 1980. (NOT AVAILABLE).

Pipeline Friction Losses of Coarse Sand Slurries. Comparison with a Design Model, Sundqvist, Asa and Anders Sellgren Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Addie, Graeme-GIW Industries, Inc.

Pipeline Head Loss of a Settling Slurry at Concentrations Up to 49% by Volume, Addie, Graeme and Hammar, Jarod (BHRA) Hydrotransport 12, Brugge, Belgium 1993.

Pipeline Head Loss Tests of Settling Slurries at Low Velocities, Addie, G.R. and Hammar, J.R. International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition The Institution of Engineers, Australia May 1994.

Pipeline Performance of Florida Phosphate Clay Slurries, Carstens, M. R. and Addie, G. R. AIME/AICHE AIPG/FIPR Regional Phosphate Conference Lakeland Florida, September 1992.

Pipeline Transport of Coarse Materials in a Non-Newtonian Carrier Fluid, Duckworth, R. A., Pullum, L., Addie, G.R. and Lockyear, C.F., (BHRA) Hydrotransport 10, Innsbruck, Austria, October, 1986.

Potential Operating Cost Improvments in Florida Matrix Transportation, Addie, G.R. and Hagler, T.W., AIME Florida, 1989.

Prediction Methodology for Two-Phase Flow and Erosion Wear in Slurry Impellers, Pagalthivarthi, Krishnan V. and Addie, Graeme 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF-2001, New Orleans, LA, May 27-June 1, 2001.

Prediction of Centrifugal Slurry Pump Wear, Visintainer, R.J., Addie, G.R., and Pagalthivarthi, K.V. International Conference on Pumps and System, Beijing, China, May 19-21, 1992.

Prediction of Dredge Pump Shell Wear, Addie, G.R. and Pagalthivarthi, K.V., (WODA) World Dredge Congress, Orlando, FL, 1989.

Prediction of Impeller Nose Wear Behavior in Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Bross, Stephan and Addie, Graeme 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, New Orleans, LA, May 27-June 1, 2001.

Prediction Of Slurry Pump Component Wear And Cost, A. Sellgren, G. Addie, R. Visintainer and K. Pagalthivarthi, 2005.

Pump and Pipeline Performance Testing at Georgia Iron Works Hydraulic Laboratory, Addie, Graeme R. Proceeding in Mining in a Decade of Change, Energy Economics Environment AIME, Duluth, MN, 1980. (NOT AVAILABLE).

Pump and Pipeline Solids Effects of Transporting Sands with Different Size Distributions and Concentrations, Sellgren, Anders and Addie, G.R. (BHRA) Hydrotransport 13, 1996.

Quantitative Characterization of Fracture Behavior in High Chromium White Cast Iron, Crepeau, B. Gieseike, Antolovich, S.D. and Calboreanu, George A., International Colloguim on Wear Resistent Material, Saint Etienne, France, November 1985 (Not presented at Conference).

Quasi-3D Computation of Turbulent Flow in Centrifugal Pump Casings, Pagalthivarthi, K.V., Desai, P.V. and Addie, G.R., ASME Symposium on Multidiciplinary Application of CFD, December 1991 Publication in ASME Transactions, Journal of Fluids Engineering.

Recent Improvements in Dredge Pump Efficiencies and Suction Performances, Addie, G.R., Amsterdam 1989.

Sag Mill Pump Wear Considerations, Addie, G., Mueller, T., Gorthy, W. SAG Workshop, Vina Del Mar,Chile, May 16-18, 2001.

SAG Mill Pumping Cost Considerations, Addie, G. R., Sellgren, A., and Mudge, J. SAG Conference 2001, 3rd International Conference on Autogenous & Semiautogenous Grinding Technology, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, September 30 – October 3, 2001.

Sand-Water Slurry Experiment, Carstens, M.R. and Addie, Graeme R. Journal of Hydraulic Division ASCE, Vol. 107, No. HY4 April 1981.

Slurry Pipeline Friction Losses for Coarse and High-Density Industrial Products, Sundqvist, Asa and Sellgren, Anders Division of Water Resources Engineering Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Addie, Graeme-GIW Industries, Inc. (Powder Technology 89 (1996) 19-28.

Slurry Pipeline Friction Using Nomographs, Addie, Graeme R. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, September 1982.

Slurry Pipeline Design for Operation with Centrifugal Pumps, Addie, Graeme R. Texas A&M Tutorial March 1996.

Slurry Pump and Pipeline Performance Testing at Georgia Iron Works Hydraulic Laboratory, Addie, Graeme R. AIME-Duluth, MN, 1980. (NOT AVAILABLE, see Sixth International Technical Conf. 1981).

Slurry Pump and Pipeline Performance Testing at Georgia Iron Works Hydraulic Laboratory, Addie, Graeme R. Sixth International Technical Conference on Slurry Transportation, Las Vegas, NV, March 1981.

Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pump, Wilson, K.C., Addie, G. R. and Clift R. London and New York: Elsevier Applied Science, 1992 ISBN 1 85166 745 8 (THE BOOK).

Solids Effect on the Characteristics of Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Sellgren, Anders - Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Addie, Graeme - GIW Industries, Inc., U.S.A. (BHRA) Hydrotransport 12, Brugge, Belgium 1993.

Study of the Outlet Velocity Characteristics of Slurry Pump Impellers, Hergt, P., Pagalthivarthi, K., Brodersen, S. and Visintainer, R. Fifth International Symposium on Liquid-Solid Flows, ASME Meeting, Lake Tahoe, June 1994 .

Study on Casing Performance in Centrifugal Slurry Pumps, Roco, M.C., Addie, Graeme R. and Visintainer, R.J. Particulate Science Technology Journal 1985.

Suction Performance of Centrifugal Pumps and its Effect on Cost of Slurry Transport, Graeme R. Addie, GIW Industries, Inc. U.S.A. Kenneth C. Wilson, Queen’s University, Canada Anders Sellgren, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden (BHRA) Hydrotransport 14, 1999.

Technical-Economical Feasibility Of Using Centrifugal Pumps In High-Density Thickened Tailings Slurry Systems, G. Addie, L Whitlock, A. Sellgren, 2005.

Test Approach for Dense Slurry Erosion, Roco, M.C., Nair, P. and Addie G.R. ASTM Publication Slurry Erosion 1985.

Tools and Technology for Selecting Slurry Pumps, Addie, Graeme R., and Carlson, Richard R. CIM Montreal ’98 May 1998.

Two-Phase Flow Prediction in a Coriolis Wear Tester, Do no have copy with Figures.

Using Centrifugal Pumps for Highly Concentrated Tailings Slurries, Sellgren, Anders and Addie, Graeme Learning Seminar, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, October 23-24, 2000.

Viscous Flow Prediction in Centrifugal Slurry Pump Casings, Pagalthivarthi, Krishnan and Ramanathan, Veeraraghavan ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Boston, MA, June 2000.

Water Hammer Resulting from Cavitating Pumps, Carstens, M.R. and Hagler, T.W., Jr. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 90 No. HY6, November 1964.

Wear Prediction in Slurry Pipelines, Roco, M.C. and Addie, Graeme Fine Particle Society & Clean Energy Research Institute, University of Miami, April 1985. (NOT AVAILABLE).