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Slurry Transport

In dredging, trenching, (deep sea) mining, drilling, tunnel boring and many other applications, sand, clay or rock has to be excavated. The book covers horizontal transport of settling slurries (Newtonian slurries). Non-settling (non-Newtonian) slurries are not covered.

Author
Sape A. Miedema
Publisher
Delft University of Technology
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Language
EN
Contents· 122 sections
  1. 01: Introduction
  2. 1.01: Introduction
  3. 1.02: Flow Regimes Literature
  4. 1.03: The Parable of Blind Men and an Elephant
  5. 1.04: The Delft Head Loss and Limit Deposit Velocity Framework
  6. 1.05: Approach of this Book
  7. 1.06: Nomenclature
  8. 02: Dimensionless Numbers and Other Parameters
  9. 2.01: Definitions
  10. 2.02: Dimensionless Numbers
  11. 2.03: Applications of Dimensionless Numbers
  12. 2.04: Other Important Parameters
  13. 2.05: Nomenclature
  14. 03: Pressure Losses with Homogeneous Liquid Flow
  15. 3.01: Pipe Wall Shear Stress
  16. 3.02: The Darcy-Weisbach Friction Factor
  17. 3.03: The Equivalent Liquid Model
  18. 3.04: Approximation of the Darcy-Weisbach Friction Factor
  19. 3.05: The Friction Velocity or Shear Velocity u
  20. 3.06: The Thickness of the Viscous Sub Layer v
  21. 3.07: The Smallest Eddies
  22. 3.08: The Relative or Apparent Viscosity
  23. 3.09: Nomenclature
  24. 04: The Terminal Settling Velocity of Particles
  25. 4.01: Introduction
  26. 4.02: The Equilibrium of Forces
  27. 4.03: The Drag Coefficient
  28. 4.04: Terminal Settling Velocity Equations
  29. 4.05: The Shape Factor
  30. 4.06: Hindered Settling
  31. 4.07: Conclusions
  32. 4.08: Nomenclature
  33. 05: Initiation of Motion and Sediment Transport
  34. 5.01: Initiation of Motion of Particles
  35. 5.02: Hydraulic Transport of Sand-Shell Mixtures in Relation with the LDV
  36. 5.03: Erosion Bed Load and Suspended Load
  37. 06: Slurry Transport a Historical Overview
  38. 6.01: Introduction
  39. 6.02: Early History
  40. 6.03: Empirical and Semi-Empirical Models
  41. 6.04: The Durand and Condolios (1952) School
  42. 6.05: The Newitt et al. (1955) Model
  43. 6.06: Silin Kobernik and Asaulenko (1958) and (1962)
  44. 6.07: Graf et al. (1970) and Robinson (1971)
  45. 6.08: Yagi et al. (1972)
  46. 6.09: A.D. Thomas (1976) and (1979)
  47. 6.10: The Turian and Yuan (1977) Fit Model
  48. 6.11: Kazanskij (1978) and (1980)
  49. 6.12: The IHC-MTI (1998) Model for the Limit Deposit Velocity
  50. 6.13: Conclusions and Discussion Empirical and Semi-Empirical Models
  51. 6.14: Nomenclature Early History and Empirical and Semi-Empirical Models
  52. 6.15: Physical Models
  53. 6.16: The Wasp et al. (1963) Model
  54. 6.17: The Wilson-GIW (1979) Models
  55. 6.18: The Fuhrboter (1961) Model
  56. 6.19: The Jufin and Lopatin (1966) Model
  57. 6.20: Charles (1970) and Babcock (1970)
  58. 6.21: The Doron et al. (1987) and Doron and Barnea (1993) Model
  59. 6.22: The SRC Model
  60. 6.23: The Kaushal and Tomita (2002B) Model
  61. 6.24: The Matousek (2010) (2011) Model
  62. 6.25: Talmon (2011) and (2013) Homogeneous Regime
  63. 6.26: Conclusions and Discussion Physical Models
  64. 6.27: The Limit Deposit Velocity (LDV)
  65. 6.28: Inclined Pipes
  66. 6.29: Starting Points DHLLDV Framework
  67. 07: The Delft Head Loss and Limit Deposit Velocity Framework
  68. 7.01: Introduction
  69. 7.02: Flow Regimes and Scenarios
  70. 7.03: A Head Loss Model for Fixed Bed Slurry Transport
  71. 7.04: A Head Loss Model for Sliding Bed Slurry Transport
  72. 7.05: A Head Loss Model for Heterogeneous Slurry Transport
  73. 7.06: A Head Loss Model for Homogeneous Slurry Transport
  74. 7.07: The Sliding Flow Regime
  75. 7.08: The Limit Deposit Velocity
  76. 7.09: The Slip Velocity
  77. 7.10: The Concentration Distribution
  78. 7.11: The Transition Heterogeneous vs. Homogeneous in Detail
  79. 7.12: The Bed Height
  80. 7.13: Influence of the Particle Size Distribution
  81. 7.14: Inclined Pipes
  82. 08: Usage of the DHLLDV Framework
  83. 8.01: Introduction
  84. 8.02: Default Equations Used In This Book
  85. 8.03: The Influence of Fines
  86. 8.04: The Fixed or Stationary Bed Regime
  87. 8.05: The Sliding Bed Regime
  88. 8.06: The Heterogeneous Transport Regime
  89. 8.07: The Homogeneous Transport Regime
  90. 8.08: The Transition Heterogeneous Regime - Homogeneous Regime
  91. 8.09: The Sliding Flow Regime
  92. 8.10: The Resulting Erhg Constant Spatial Volumetric Concentration Curve
  93. 8.11: Determining the Limit Deposit Velocity
  94. 8.12: Constructing the Transport Concentration Curves
  95. 8.13: The Bed Height
  96. 8.14: The Concentration Distribution
  97. 8.15: Graded Sands and Gravels
  98. 8.16: Inclined Pipes
  99. 8.17: Conclusions and Discussion
  100. 8.18: Nomenclature DHLLDV Framework
  101. 09: Comparison of the DHLLDV Framework with Other Models
  102. 9.01: Introduction
  103. 9.02: The Transition Velocity Heterogeneous-Homogeneous
  104. 9.03: The Limit Deposit Velocity
  105. 9.04: Nomenclature Comparisons
  106. 9.05: Comparison Graded Sands and Gravels
  107. 10: Application of the Theory on a Cutter Suction Dredge
  108. 10.01: Head Loss Equation
  109. 10.02: The Limit Deposit Velocity
  110. 10.03: The Resulting Head Loss versus Mixture Flow Graph
  111. 10.04: The Relative Excess Hydraulic Gradient of Pump and Pipeline
  112. 10.05: A Segmented Pipeline System
  113. 10.06: Conclusions and Discussion
  114. 10.07: Nomenclature Application of the Theory on a Cutter Suction Dredge
  115. 11: Appendices
  116. 11.01: Appendix A- List of Solids Densities
  117. 11.02: Appendix B- List of Liquid Densities
  118. 11.03: Appendix C- List of Mesh Sizes
  119. 11.04: Appendix D- Flow Regime Diagrams
  120. 11.05: A Set of Resulting Graphs
  121. 11.06: 3 Layer Model Graphs (Sliding Bed and Sliding Flow)
  122. 11.07: Concentration Distributions