Criteria for silo design in backfill operation
CIM Bulletin, Vol. 90, No. 1014, 1997
L.J.Chen, Natural Resources Canada CANMET/Mining Research Laboratories, Sudbury, Ontario
In developing a backfill system handling tailings feed to and from the storage silo, it is necessary to establish a slurry laboratory to develop the technology and silo design criteria.
This paper presents the principles involved in such development and the importance of testing principles for optimizing the slurry system. Evaluation procedure based on experiments is applicable to a wide range of materials and allows silo design by scaling up the data gained from model tests. Silo simulation has been successful to design and operation, so becomes an effective approach to backfill applications.
Keywords:
Backfill, Silo design, Slurry systems.
