Advantages of pipeline transportation.
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Causing problems to both land owners and companies laying pipelines. Pipelines are most convenient, efficient and economical mode of transporting liquids like petroleum, petroleum products, natural gas, water, milk, etc. Even solids can also be transported through pipelines after converting them into slurry.
(1) It can be transported continuously, is not affected by the weather, and has high reliability throughout the day.
(2) The pipeline can take shortcuts and the transportation distance is short;
(3) The transportation volume is large. A foreign coal pipe with a diameter of 720 mm can transport 20 million tons of coal a year, which is almost equivalent to the single-direction conveying capacity of a single-track railway;
(4) High environmental benefits and no harmful substances.
(5) The transportation project is small in quantity and covers a small area. Pipeline transportation only needs to lay pipelines and build pumping stations. The amount of earth and stone works is much smaller than that of railway construction. Moreover, most of the plain areas are buried underneath, and do not occupy farmland;
(6) The energy consumption is small, which is the lowest among various modes of transportation;
(7) Safe and reliable, no pollution, low cost;
(8) Closed transportation can be realized with less loss.
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