Excavating – Peat excavators
Patent
1990-04-13
1991-08-27
Taylor, Dennis L.
Excavating
Peat excavators
37 54, 37195, 405128, 406 38, 406197, B63B 2502, E02F 334
Patent
active
050421786
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and process for solid dredge material disposal is disclosed for changing the solid materials into a dense slurry for more advantageous dispersal at an aquatic disposal site. The apparatus includes a hopper discharging to a large high volume, low head marine pump supplied with water and power by umbilical attachment to an excavating dredge. The hopper is preferably placed aboard a bottom dump barge for receiving and loading the processed dredge materials from a clam shell dredge. In operation, the dredge excavates solid dredge materials and discharges the materials onto the hopper placed on the barge. The hopper has a grate through which the dredged material falls to affect initial screening of dredged debris as well as breakup of the solids. A matrix of water jets impacts the debris falling from the grate where after the dredged material is passed through a pump in intermittent batches creating a slurry. The slurry is then discharged into the barge, preferably an open bottom dump barge movable by tug from the site of the marine excavation to the disposal site. At the disposal site, the dredged material is discharged from the barge and slurry falls rapidly to the bottom with minimum silt plume confining silt damage to marine life to the immediate vicinity of the disposal site. At the same time there is deposited in the water of the disposal site the slurry which can thereafter be subjected to estuine dispersal by tidal and river currents in a natural manner to avoid filling of the disposal site.
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