Study of suspended sediment transport discharge of Serayu River, Central Java, Indonesia in laboratory

Abstract

Sedimentation is a natural phenomena that occurs in rivers in Indonesia, including Serayu River in Central of Java, Indonesia. The sedimentation will result in siltation on the riverbed that reducing river function. Suspended load is one of the main factor that cause of sedimentation, therefore research is needed to to determine the amount of sedimentation. knowledge about suspended sediment transport has been developed by several experts in the water sector. This research is done by creating a simulation of the flow of water so that made a susoended load drift. This research was done by using the sediment that pass sieve No.200. The result from the research is knowing the correlation between water discharge and suspended sediment discharge. The result from laboratory then will be compared with Enstein's; Chang, Simon and Richardson's; and Lane and Kalinske's approach.