Slurry Transport: Fundamentals, A Historical Overview & The Delft Head Loss & Limit Deposit Velocity Framework - 2nd Edition

Sape A. Miedema

doi:10.5074/t.2019.002

Slurry Transport: Fundamentals, A Historical Overview & The Delft Head Loss & Limit Deposit Velocity Framework - 2nd Edition

Authors

Sape A. Miedema

Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Department of Offshore & Dredging EngineeringEngineering

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2986-9784

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5074/t.2019.002

Keywords: slurry transport, flow regimes, hydraulic gradient, solids effect, dredging

Synopsis

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 Biography

Sape A. Miedema, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Department of Offshore & Dredging EngineeringEngineering

Dr.ir. S.A.Miedema teaches (or has taught) courses on soil mechanics and soil cutting, pumps and slurry transport, hopper sedimentation and erosion, mechatronics, applied thermodynamics related to energy, drive system design principles, mooring systems, hydromechanics and mathematics. He is (or has been) also teaching at Hohai University, Changzhou, China, at Cantho University, Cantho Vietnam, at Petrovietnam University, Baria, Vietnam and different dredging companies in the Netherlands and the USA.His research focuses on the mathematical modeling of dredging systems like, cutter suction dredges, hopper dredges, clamshell dredges, backhoe dredges and trenchers. The fundamental part of the research focuses on the cutting processes of sand, clay and rock, sedimentation processes in Trailing Suction Hopper Dredges and the associated erosion processes. Lately the research focuses on hyperbaric rock cutting in relation with deep sea mining and on hydraulic transport of solids/liquid settling slurries.