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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
- 01: Introduction
- 1.01: Introduction
- 1.02: Flow Regimes Literature
- 1.03: The Parable of Blind Men and an Elephant
- 1.04: The Delft Head Loss and Limit Deposit Velocity Framework
- 1.05: Approach of this Book
- 1.06: Nomenclature
- 02: Dimensionless Numbers and Other Parameters
- 2.01: Definitions
- 2.02: Dimensionless Numbers
- 2.03: Applications of Dimensionless Numbers
- 2.04: Other Important Parameters
- 2.05: Nomenclature
- 03: Pressure Losses with Homogeneous Liquid Flow
- 3.01: Pipe Wall Shear Stress
- 3.02: The Darcy-Weisbach Friction Factor
- 3.03: The Equivalent Liquid Model
- 3.04: Approximation of the Darcy-Weisbach Friction Factor
- 3.05: The Friction Velocity or Shear Velocity u
- 3.06: The Thickness of the Viscous Sub Layer v
- 3.07: The Smallest Eddies
- 3.08: The Relative or Apparent Viscosity
- 3.09: Nomenclature
- 04: The Terminal Settling Velocity of Particles
- 4.01: Introduction
- 4.02: The Equilibrium of Forces
- 4.03: The Drag Coefficient
- 4.04: Terminal Settling Velocity Equations
- 4.05: The Shape Factor
- 4.06: Hindered Settling
- 4.07: Conclusions
- 4.08: Nomenclature
- 05: Initiation of Motion and Sediment Transport
- 5.01: Initiation of Motion of Particles
- 5.02: Hydraulic Transport of Sand-Shell Mixtures in Relation with the LDV
- 5.03: Erosion Bed Load and Suspended Load
- 06: Slurry Transport a Historical Overview
- 6.01: Introduction
- 6.02: Early History
- 6.03: Empirical and Semi-Empirical Models
- 6.04: The Durand and Condolios (1952) School
- 6.05: The Newitt et al. (1955) Model
- 6.06: Silin Kobernik and Asaulenko (1958) and (1962)
- 6.07: Graf et al. (1970) and Robinson (1971)
- 6.08: Yagi et al. (1972)
- 6.09: A.D. Thomas (1976) and (1979)
- 6.10: The Turian and Yuan (1977) Fit Model
- 6.11: Kazanskij (1978) and (1980)
- 6.12: The IHC-MTI (1998) Model for the Limit Deposit Velocity
- 6.13: Conclusions and Discussion Empirical and Semi-Empirical Models
- 6.14: Nomenclature Early History and Empirical and Semi-Empirical Models
- 6.15: Physical Models
- 6.16: The Wasp et al. (1963) Model
- 6.17: The Wilson-GIW (1979) Models
- 6.18: The Fuhrboter (1961) Model
- 6.19: The Jufin and Lopatin (1966) Model
- 6.20: Charles (1970) and Babcock (1970)
- 6.21: The Doron et al. (1987) and Doron and Barnea (1993) Model
- 6.22: The SRC Model
- 6.23: The Kaushal and Tomita (2002B) Model
- 6.24: The Matousek (2010) (2011) Model
- 6.25: Talmon (2011) and (2013) Homogeneous Regime
- 6.26: Conclusions and Discussion Physical Models
- 6.27: The Limit Deposit Velocity (LDV)
- 6.28: Inclined Pipes
- 6.29: Starting Points DHLLDV Framework
- 07: The Delft Head Loss and Limit Deposit Velocity Framework
- 7.01: Introduction
- 7.02: Flow Regimes and Scenarios
- 7.03: A Head Loss Model for Fixed Bed Slurry Transport
- 7.04: A Head Loss Model for Sliding Bed Slurry Transport
- 7.05: A Head Loss Model for Heterogeneous Slurry Transport
- 7.06: A Head Loss Model for Homogeneous Slurry Transport
- 7.07: The Sliding Flow Regime
- 7.08: The Limit Deposit Velocity
- 7.09: The Slip Velocity
- 7.10: The Concentration Distribution
- 7.11: The Transition Heterogeneous vs. Homogeneous in Detail
- 7.12: The Bed Height
- 7.13: Influence of the Particle Size Distribution
- 7.14: Inclined Pipes
- 08: Usage of the DHLLDV Framework
- 8.01: Introduction
- 8.02: Default Equations Used In This Book
- 8.03: The Influence of Fines
- 8.04: The Fixed or Stationary Bed Regime
- 8.05: The Sliding Bed Regime
- 8.06: The Heterogeneous Transport Regime
- 8.07: The Homogeneous Transport Regime
- 8.08: The Transition Heterogeneous Regime - Homogeneous Regime
- 8.09: The Sliding Flow Regime
- 8.10: The Resulting Erhg Constant Spatial Volumetric Concentration Curve
- 8.11: Determining the Limit Deposit Velocity
- 8.12: Constructing the Transport Concentration Curves
- 8.13: The Bed Height
- 8.14: The Concentration Distribution
- 8.15: Graded Sands and Gravels
- 8.16: Inclined Pipes
- 8.17: Conclusions and Discussion
- 8.18: Nomenclature DHLLDV Framework
- 09: Comparison of the DHLLDV Framework with Other Models
- 9.01: Introduction
- 9.02: The Transition Velocity Heterogeneous-Homogeneous
- 9.03: The Limit Deposit Velocity
- 9.04: Nomenclature Comparisons
- 9.05: Comparison Graded Sands and Gravels
- 10: Application of the Theory on a Cutter Suction Dredge
- 10.01: Head Loss Equation
- 10.02: The Limit Deposit Velocity
- 10.03: The Resulting Head Loss versus Mixture Flow Graph
- 10.04: The Relative Excess Hydraulic Gradient of Pump and Pipeline
- 10.05: A Segmented Pipeline System
- 10.06: Conclusions and Discussion
- 10.07: Nomenclature Application of the Theory on a Cutter Suction Dredge
- 11: Appendices
- 11.01: Appendix A- List of Solids Densities
- 11.02: Appendix B- List of Liquid Densities
- 11.03: Appendix C- List of Mesh Sizes
- 11.04: Appendix D- Flow Regime Diagrams
- 11.05: A Set of Resulting Graphs
- 11.06: 3 Layer Model Graphs (Sliding Bed and Sliding Flow)
- 11.07: Concentration Distributions