Re: Slurry Pump Suction Liner Wear

"dkichton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Anyone experience excessive erosion wear (pumping a heavy sand slurry)
> on slurry pump suction liners.  We had been testing a urethane product
> with great success, then changed the discharge piping from 20" to 24"
> diameter and reduced our suction liner wear from 52 weeks to 4 weeks.
> Process conditions have not varied that much.  Any comments would be
> appreciated.  Pumping a slurry density of 1.4 gms/ml, 16000 usgpm,
> discharge pressure of 300 psig.

If I have sorted your wired units out you seem to have a rather high flow
rate, probably a change in flow type, due to the reduced velocity.