Alaskan pipeline

The Alaskan pipeline shown in the photo on the opposite page was huilt to carry crude oil from the oil fields in the frozen north to an ice-free southern Alaskan seaport. Crude oil, also called petroleum, is a complex mixture of carhon compounds produced by heat and pressure acting on the remains of once-living organisms buried deep beneath Earth s surface. 

Investigate the mass flow rate of oil inside the Alaskan pipeline, and write a brief report to your instruaor discussing your finding. 

Sacrificial Anode The Alaskan pipeline is cathodically protected by a parallel zinc cable. 

We wish to specify pumps to send oil through the Alaskan pipeline (Figure 5.20). 

Let s model the Alaskan pipeline with water flowing through a conveniently sized glass tube. First we convert the Alaskan pipeline flow rate from English units to SI units ... 

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