Question

List disadvantages of pipeline transportation

Answer 1

Answer:

•It is not flexible, i.e., it can be used only for a few fixed points.

•Its capacity cannot be increased once it is laid. ADVERTISEMENTS:

It is difficult to make security arrangements for pipelines.

Underground pipelines cannot be easily repaired and detection of leakage is also difficult.

Answer 2

Answer:

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,s o in the early field development, the use of transformation difficulties but also to road, rail, sea and land transportation as a transition.