Brien is an unusual first name for males but a very prominent surname for all people (#11302 out of 150436, Top 8%). Brien entered the list in 1950-1959 and reached its apex rank of #823 in the U.S. in the 1960s, but is not found in the list at the moment.
noun, plural slurries. 1. a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil. 2. Ceramics. a thin slip. verb (used with object), slurried, slurrying. 3. to prepare a suspension of (a solid in a liquid).
Coal slurry is a mixture of solids and liquids produced by a coal preparation plant. As a slurry, coal is separated from non-combustable components and can be fractionated by particle size as well. Coal slurry can be transferred by pipeline or with specialised pumps such as a progressive cavity pump to pump the highly abrasive, corrosive and viscous coal slurry. The scale of water usage and hence potential costs and problems is large. More than 7 billion tons of coal are mined per year, using ap