Paul Slatter
Principal Engineer
ATC Williams
Australia
Biography
Dr Slatter’s main expertise is the characterisation of Slurry Flow Properties and their use in Pumped Pipeline, Open Channel and Launder Design. He has been actively involved in Flow Process Design, Research and Higher Education teaching for the past thirty-five years. Dr Slatter’s main interests and contributions are for viscoplastic fluids in the engineering hydrodynamic contexts of laminar, transitional and turbulent pipe flow, centrifugal pump derating, losses in valves and fittings, open channels, Launders and sheet flows. These design approaches developed by Dr Slatter have been referenced in 20 Design Handbooks on Mining and Mineral Processing Plant Design. Dr Slatter recently left RMIT University and has established a Rheology and Slurry Engineering Consulting section at Australian Tailings Consultants ATC Williams. He has presented 17 Invited International Keynote Addresses, Chaired 51 International Technical Conference Sessions and presented courses internationally, in the field of Rheology, Slurry Flow and Pump and Pipeline Design.
Research Interest
Viscoplastic fluids in the engineering hydrodynamic contexts of laminar, Transitional and turbulent pipe flow, Centrifugal pump derating, losses in valves and fittings, open channels, Launders and sheet flows