Fred Alan Williams has written:

'An analysis of the issues affecting the coal slurry pipeline movement'

A. E. Smoldyrev has written:

'Pipeline transport of concentrated slurries' -- subject(s): Bulk solids handling, Pipelines, Slurry

One of the disadvantages of pipeline transport is that a small leak can be disastrous, such as the one in Kenya that killed many people and made others homeless. Leaks can be harder to spot because pipelines run through wilderness areas.

The disadvantage of pipeline transportation are: (1) specific and strong, can only transport oil, natural gas and solid slurry (such as coal), but in the field it occupies, with a fixed and reliable market; (2) pipeline from input the magnitude of the amount of the highest traffic among small, so in the early field

5D and similar bends with a large radius are used in pipelines carrying sludge or slurry - such as in wastewater plants,and in pneumatic conveying systems . They reduce resistance to flow / pipeline losses and reduce the risk of blockage.