Ecological intake for sand-less water solution for river management

Abstract

The aim of this paper is the promotion of the Romanian invention called the ecological intake for sand-less water, an intake that do not block the river and do not produce erosions after it. This intake is a device that is naturally incorporated along the river and which allows the transit of the sediments downwards so that the equilibrium of the river is conserved. The main theoretical aspects for the computation of the flow are presented in addition with the experimental results related with the sediment transport. The final results justify the necessity of this intake compared with the old ones.