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coal-slurry pipeline

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ID 709347 Last modified 30.12.2004
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  • the most economic means to move large blocks of energy, especially over long distances
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  • FR: conduit pour l'acheminement de boues de charbon [T40796] DE: Schlammkohle-Rohrfernleitung [T40796] FI: hiililieteputkisto [T40796]
coal-slurry pipeline
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  • On Aug. 14, 1970, an underground river of coal began flowing 273 miles across the state of Arizona, and into a 1,500-Mw. power plant near Davis Dam in Nevada. Equivalent in capacity to two 160-car railroad trains per day, the unseen "river" is the 18-in.-dia. Black Mesa coal slurry pipeline, so far the largest and longest slurry pipeline in the world.

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