Carbon black hauling?

Color me ignorant but is that the same stuff as bone black?

 

It's the black that collects at the top of a kerosene lamp chimney, really fine stuff.

 

Carbon black is simply 100% soot, produced by burning crude oil with just enough oxygen to produce the most soot possible. Straight soot - nothing more and nothing less.

 

I know pigment slurry is thick and heavy, we had to 'Sparge" the rail car before transferring. I think it was 22.something pounds per gal. It would settle out in the car and the standpipe was 'teed' into two perforated pipes running close to the bottom and we were instructed to supply air pressure to the sparge pipe and the whole car would rock and roll as the slurry mixed up. We only transferred 2250 gal at a time [48,000#] so it stayed in suspension for delivery. It was so thick that the customer took 4 hours to pump it to the top floor, Long Island Paint in Long Island City with a diaphragm pump contained in a 55 gal drum on wheels with an electric heat gun focused on the air motor so it wouldn't freeze as the pump cycled back N forth maybe 3 - 4 times a minute which is painfully SLOW for a good air pump with good air pressure.

The dry version was a real PITA, each hopper on the trailer had three small vibrators running on plant supplied compressed air to help you blow it off

I would think that carbon would be similar in consistency, hope the customer pumps it -or- has a steep ramp for a gravity drop...bet it's gonna be hard to tell how much heel inside a black tank...

 

Everything on here sounds like stay far away unless it's paying really, really good.

 

Well I am flatbed but this is cool readin!

 

Man and I thought dump truckin' flyash was nasty!

 

We loaded 2350 gal of the TIO2 into a 5500 gal [latex tight fill] tank.

Talk about feeling like Indiana Jones with that big boulder rolling along behind him!