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SIlt Ejector and Silt Excluder

There are two main types of silt ejectors: tunnel type and vortex tube type. A silt ejector extracts or throws out silt from a canal after it has entered, and is placed in the canal bed about 1000 yards downstream of the head regulator. A silt excluder prevents high sediment concentration water from the bottom layers of a river from entering an off-taking canal, and only allows relatively less sediment-laden water from the top layers to enter the canal. The main difference is that a silt excluder is proactive and prevents silt from entering the canal in the first place, while a silt ejector uses a curative measure to remove silt after it has entered the canal.

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SIlt Ejector and Silt Excluder

There are two main types of silt ejectors: tunnel type and vortex tube type. A silt ejector extracts or throws out silt from a canal after it has entered, and is placed in the canal bed about 1000 yards downstream of the head regulator. A silt excluder prevents high sediment concentration water from the bottom layers of a river from entering an off-taking canal, and only allows relatively less sediment-laden water from the top layers to enter the canal. The main difference is that a silt excluder is proactive and prevents silt from entering the canal in the first place, while a silt ejector uses a curative measure to remove silt after it has entered the canal.

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SILT EJECTOR AND

SILT EXCLUDER
Assignment #1

Submitted to: Dr. Habib Ur Rehman


Submitted by; Ahsan Ali
2016-CIV-83
Silt Ejector
Silt after it has entered the canal is extracted or thrown out by Silt Ejector. It is
place in the bed of canal at distance of almost 1000 yds downstream of the Head
regulator. It is curative measure to extract silt from the canal. Also known as silt
excluder.
There are two main types of Silt Ejectors
I. Tunnel Type
II. Vortex tube type
Tunnel type Silt Ejector is shown in the figure.
Silt Excluder
Sediment entering into an off taking canal, if excessive, causes silting
and thus reduces canal capacity. As such, it is necessary to control the
amount of sediment entering into the off taking canal. This is done by
constructing a sediment excluder in the river bed immediately upstream
of the canal head regulator.
Silt Excluder prevents the bottom layers of water, which have maximum
sediment concentration, from entering the off taking canal and allows
only the top layers of the stream, containing relatively less sediment, to
enter the off taking canal.
The main difference of the silt Excluder and Ejector is that in case of
Excluder we are pro-active and silt is not allowed to enter the canal, but
in case of Ejector we are using curative measure.

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