A Model for Removing Sediments from Open Channels

A. Omran, Hassan; Y. Fattah, Mohammed; E. Sulaiman, Sadiq

	A Model for Removing Sediments from Open Channels
journal of kerbala university
Article 1, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 22-35 PDF (0 K)
Authors
Hassan A. Omran; Mohammed Y. Fattah; Sadiq E. Sulaiman
Abstract
The problems caused by suspended sediment overloading in open channels are of great importance to the hydraulic engineers. One of the important problems caused by the sediment overloading during flood seasons is the change in bed level and corresponding water level of rivers due to its deposition on the river bed. At the upstream reaches, the bed slope is high, velocity is high and hence the rivers carry large amount of sediment during flood seasons. In this paper, eighty one experiments on the laboratory open-channel of cross-section dimensions (20*50) cm and (10) m long. The experiments include using sharp crested weir in the last third part of the channel. Three heights of weir are used; namely half width of channel (B), equal the width, and 1.5 times the width of channel . Also three bed slopes of the channel are used; namely 0.015, 0.0225, and 0.03). In all experiments, the values of discharge are limited between 100 and 300 l/min. The concentration of suspended sediment is measured upstream and downstream the weir through each experiment to calculate the sediment reduction ratio (SRR%) The results of the laboratory experiments showed that the sediment reduction ratio increases with the increase of weir height and reaches about (63%) at channel bed slope of (0.015) and weir height 1.5B (where B is the width of channel). When the discharge is more than (100 l/min), the highest values of sediment reduction ratio are obtained for the three slopes used and at weir height (1.5B).
Keywords
Open channel; sediment reduction ration; model; removal

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