TY - CHAP A1 - Koshiba, T. A1 - Auel, C. A1 - Tsutsumi, D. A1 - Kantoush, S.A. A1 - Sumi, T. T1 - Improvement of a bedload transport rate measuring systems in sediment bypass tunnels T2 - River Sedimentation: Proc. 13th Int. Symposium on River Sedimentation N2 - For long term use of dams, it is required to develop methods of sediment management in reservoirs. As one method, Sediment BypassTunnels (SBT) are operated in Japan and Switzerland to prevent reservoir sedimentation. SBT reduces sedimentation in reservoirs by routing the incoming sediments around the dam. SBT, however, is prone to severe invert abrasion caused by high sediment flux. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a measurement system of sediment transport rates in the SBT. A geophone was experimentally investigated in a laboratory flume at ETH Zurich. The sediment transport rate is calculated based on the plate vibration caused by hitting of gravels. In this paper, in order to alleviate disadvantages of a geophone, two newly developed sensor systems, a plate microphone and plate vibration sensor, are suggested and the results of their calibration experiments are shown. Finally, they are compared with the existing methods. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-151462 SN - 978-1-138-02945-3 SP - 1038 EP - 1045 PB - CRC Press CY - Stuttgart, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Auel, C. A1 - Kantoush, S.A. A1 - Sumi, T. T1 - Positive effects of reservoir sedimentation management on reservoir life: Examples from Japan T2 - 84th Annual Meeting of ICOLD, Johannesburg, South Africa 4-11−4-20. N2 - The effectiveness of different strategies against reservoir sedimentation is demonstrated herein using data sets of Asahi, Nunobiki and Dashidaira reservoirs in Japan. The applied strategies encompass sediment routing with a bypass tunnel, drawdown flushing during floods and sabo dam construction in the catchment. It is shown that bypassing and flushing are very efficient strategies enlarging reservoir life by 3 to 21 times up to many hundreds of years. Furthermore, it is revealed that also efforts in the catchment, e.g. sabo dam construction, is effective enlarging reservoir life by 2.4 times. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-151498 SN - 978-0-620-71042-8 PB - ICOLD ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Koshiba, T. A1 - Sumi, T. A1 - Tsutsumi, D. A1 - Kantoush, S.A. A1 - Auel, C. T1 - Development of a bedload transport meas-uring system in sediment bypass tunnels T2 - 84th Annual Meeting of ICOLD, Johannesburg, South Africa 4-49−4-58 N2 - Sediment Bypass Tunnels are operated to divert sediment around reservoirs reducing reservoir sedimentation. A major drawback of these tunnels is severe invert abrasion due to high velocity and sediment flows. There is an urgent need to establish innovative measurement systems of sediment transport rates in SBTs. In this paper, three bedload measuring systems, namely hydrophones, geophones, and newly developed plate microphones are introduced and compared. The Koshibu SBT is planned to operate from 2016. Plate microphones combined with geophones and other planned systems are installed in the tunnel. Results of preliminary tests and installation plans of bedload measurement are presented. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-151506 SN - 978-0-620-71042-8 PB - ICOLD ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Koshiba, T. A1 - Auel, C. A1 - Tsutsumi, D. A1 - Kantoush, S.A. A1 - Sumi, T. T1 - Application of an impact plate - bedload transport measuring system for high-speed flows JF - International Journal of Sediment Research N2 - To achieve the sustainable use of dams, the development of methods for sediment management in reservoirs is required. One such method includes the use of Sediment Bypass Tunnels (SBTs) to divert sediment around a dam, thereby preventing sedimentation in the reservoir. However, SBTs are prone to severe invert abrasion caused by the high sediment flux. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a measurement system of the sediment transport rate in these tunnels. One system to measure sediment transport in rivers is the Swiss plate geophone, which can register plate vibrations caused by particle impact. In Japan, the Japanese pipe microphone is used, and sediment transport is measured based on the sound emitted by the particle impact. In this study an attempt was made to optimize the advantages of both systems by fixing a microphone and an acceleration sensor to a steel plate. The results of calibration experiments with this new system are presented and compared with the existing methods. It was found that the acceleration sensor can detect sediment particles larger than 2 mm in diameter. Moreover, a new parameter, referred to as the detection rate, was introduced to describe the correlation between the actual amount of sediment and the registered output. Finally, two parameters - the saturation rate and hit rate - are introduced and exhibit strong correlation with the detection rate. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsrc.2017.12.003 SP - 35 EP - 46 ER -