Abstract:
When measuring the quantity of sand in a dredger vessel which sand is sedimented from a suspension of sand and water, the height of the sedimented sand is determined by means of inaccurate mechanical sensitive means acting on the surface of the sedimented sand. An accurate method of measuring is provided in which fluid, such as water, is so fed at pressure, into the hold at at least one measuring place provided in said hold, that the fluid fluidizes the compacted material sedimented at the measuring place, the pressure at the measuring place being picked up when said material is in fluidized state, so that the pressure picked up corresponds with the weight of the column of dredger spoil and water, from which the weight of the loaded material at the measuring place is derived.
Abstract:
A pressure differential measuring device is located on board a dredging vessel. The water-filled lines transmitting to the measuring device communicate with branches of a purgative water system at points located sufficiently higher than the discharge points of the branches that the pressures at such communication points never falls below the value of the vapor pressure of the water, thus allowing the onboard placement of the measuring device. Also, the communicating points are so located that the ratio of the branch flow pressure loss in one branch at its communicating point with respect to the branch flow pressure loss at its discharge point is equal to the ratio of these values in the other branch. In this way, the measured pressure differential is independent of the purgative pump output.
Abstract:
In a suction dredging installation comprising a suction pipe which is connected to a pump and which has a suction mouth at its end and a throat between the pump and the suction mouth, in which the nominal flow section of the suction pipe has substantially a same value from the throat to the pump, whereas the flow section of the suction mouth is larger than said nominal flow section, the part of the suction pipe with the nominal flow section at the location of the throat is provided with a collar extending radially outwards, while the part of the suction pipe extending from the suction mouth to the throat has substantially the large flow section of the suction mouth. This shape of the suction pipe results in a toroidal supporting vortex arising before the throat which considerably reduces flow resistance.
Abstract:
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUCTION DREDGING PARTICULATE MATERIAL SUCH AS SAND. A SUCTION PIPE IS INSERTED INTO A BODY OF SAND BELOW THE BOTTOM OF A BODY OF WATER TO WITHDRAW A WATER-SAND SUSPENSION HAVING A DESIRED CONCENTRATION OF SAND IN SUCH SUSPENSION. AT THE LOWER END OF THE PIPE, THE SAND IS DRAWN IN AT VERY HIGH CONCENTRATION AND AT SOME LEVEL ABOVE THIS POINT WATER IS SEPARATELY IN-
TRODUCED AND THE DESIRED CONCENTRATION IS OBTAINED BY ADJUSTING THE LEVEL AT WHICH THE WATER IS INTRODUCED. THE CONCENTRATION OF THE RESULTING SUSPENSION IS MEASURED TO ENABLE THE LEVEL OF WATER INTRODUCTION TO BE ADJUSTED PROPERLY.
Abstract:
In underwater dredging, the ambient pressure in the soil or sand being dredged adjacent the tip of the dredging pipe which is buried in the sand is used to control the dredging machinery so that the output of dredged material is increased. A pressure sensitive device is used to anticipate variations in concentration of the sand in the suspension of sand in water being dredged.
Abstract:
The relatively hard layer of clay which covers an underwater body of sand is penetrated rapidly by forcing the lower end of a suction-dredging pipe assembly into the layer while drawing water through the pipe at a sufficiently rapid rate as to erode the clay and form a core of clay in the lower end of the pipe. This core may be removed either by crushing same so that the flowing water rapidly washes it away, or by periodically maintaining suction on the pipe to retain the core, withdrawing the pipe from the hole and expelling the core, whereafter the operation is repeated until the body of sand is reached.
Abstract:
A SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THE CONCENTRATION OF A DREDGING SPOIL SUSPENSION WHEREIN THE SUSPENSION IS CAUSED TO FLOW VERTICALLY UPWARDS AND VERTICALLY DOWNWARDS IN TWO PIPE SECTIONS. UPPER AND LOWER CONDUITS ARE COUPLED BETWEEN CORRESPONDING UPPER AND LOWER POINTS ON THE TWO VERTICAL PIPE SECTIONS, AND A PRESSURE PICKUP IS OBTAINED BETWEEN THE MIDPOINTS OF THE UPPER AND LOWER CONDUIT.
Abstract:
A METHOD AND APPARATUS ARE DISCLOSED FOR MEASURING THE QUANTITY OF DREDGING SPOIL. A FLOW OF THE SPOIL AND WATER IS GUIDED VERTICALLY UPWARDS ALONG A FIRST FLOW SECTION AND DOWNWARDS ALONG A SECOND FLOW SECTION. PRESSURE DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN VERTICALLY SPACED POINTS ON EACH FLOW SECTION ARE OBTAINED AND ADDED. THE PRODUCT OF THE PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL AND FLOW VELOCITY IS INTEGRATED DURING THE PERIOD IN WHICH THE DREDGING SPOIL IS BEING CONVEYED.
Abstract:
In the conventional method of loading a hold of a vessel with dredging spoil, in which a suspension of water and dredging spoil is admitted into the hold after the hold overflows until the required amount of dredging spoil is situated in the hold. Much dredging spoil flows into the outboard water. A more efficient filling operation is obtained when the suspension is deposited in a tube which is so kept in the hold that it is surrounded by the hold on all sides, and which is kept at such a depth in the hold that the bottom of the tube always remains above the level of the settled part of the spoil, while the tube penetrates into the liquid.
Abstract:
In dredging sand, an inner pipe is movable longitudinally within an outer jacket so that the lower end of the inner pipe may be projected beyond the lower end of the jacket and retracted within the jacket. Suction is maintained on the inner pipe and water under pressure is supplied to the jacket so that, when retracted, the lower end of the inner pipe draws in a mixture of sand and water entering the lower end of the jacket to provide the desired suspension in the pipe. In intermediate positions, the lower end portion of the inner pipe blocks the lower end of the jacket but the lower end portion of the inner pipe is formed to communicate the lower end of the inner pipe with the water under pressure in the jacket.