Acknowledgements

This book is the Third Edition of a text that emerged from a series of
annual courses on slurry transport held by GIW Industries at Augusta and
Grovetown, Georgia over the past 28 years. The authors wish to
acknowledge those who have been involved with the GIW slurry course and
who have contributed to the book. In particular, we would like to thank Dr.
M.R. Carstens for his hard work in the early years and to acknowledge the
late Dr. R. Alan Duckworth for his enthusiastic participation in later years.
We also wish to acknowledge the early contributions to the course made by
Dr. M. Roco, and the later contributions by Dr. K. Pagalthivarthi, and Dr. H.
Tian. Mr. Reab Berry participated with enthusiasm in the organization of
the course and contributed some of the practical examples. A series of test
engineers generated data of the highest quality under conditions that were
often hectic, and our highest thanks go to the present test engineer, Mr. Lee
Whitlock.
We particularly wish to thank Mr. R. Visintainer for his contribution to
the course and text, and to the members of the GIW staff who prepared the
figures. Ms. Anne Davis typed the original course notes, and deserves our
special thanks for the organisational skills that she devoted to the course. As
with the previous editions, Ms. Karen Maclntyre merits our warmest thanks
for her skilful processing of the text. Thanks for text preparation also go to
Mrs. Phyllis Korman and Mr. David Nielsen.
Last but not least, the authors wish to express their gratitude to Mr.
Thomas W. Hagler Jr. of GIW Industries (now a subsidiary of KSB
Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, Germany). Throughout his tenure as Chief
Executive Officer of GIW, Mr. Hagler has been tireless in his enthusiastic
support for the laboratory, the course, and the book; and this support has
been continued by the present CEO, Mr Dennis Ziegler.