Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps (PDF)

Slurry Course in 2007 and has co-authored the 4th edition textbook, with focus on the classification and modeling of settling slurry flows.



Dr. Lionel Pullum trained as an instrument and production engineer in London, England, where he obtained an honors degree in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in pneumatic conveying and laser diagnostics. In 1979, he joined the Division of Mineral Engineering at the Commonwealth Science Industry and Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia's foremost research body, and became an international authority on the hydraulic conveying of coarse minerals in non-Newtonian slurries. Since 1988, as a private consulting engineer, he has participated in design projects across the mining industry and has continued his active collaboration with the R&D community through the CSIRO, Australian Mineral Research Association (AMIRA), and the National Energy Research, Development & Demonstration Council (NERDDC). He has produced over 270 publications,received various awards, and, in 2015, was made Honorary Fellow at the CSIRO. Pullum joined the teaching staff of the annual GIW Slurry Course in 2005 and has co-authored the 4th edition textbook, with focus on particle mechanics, non-Newtonian slurries, and instrumentation.



Prof. Emeritus Anders Sellgren was formerly head of the Division of Water Resources Engineering at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. He holds a BS in mathematics from the University of Gothenburg and a MS in civil engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, where he also holds a Ph.D. in hydraulics. In the early 1980s, he worked as a research associate at the Mining and Minerals Resources Research Institute at the University of Arizona, U.S.A. He has since accumulated over 40 years of international experience in the research, development, and design of various slurry pumping systems, has published numerous academic papers in the field, and has contributed to the first edition ofthe ANSI/HI Centrifugal Slurry Pump Standard. He joined the teaching staff of the annual GIW Slurry Course in 1989, contributed to the 1st edition of the textbook, and was a co-author in the 2nd and 3rd editions. He has been an important co-author of the 4th edition on many topics, but especially in the areas of centrifugal pump solids effects and pump-system interactions.