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Soil Erosion Control from Trash Residues at Varying Land Slopes Under Simulated Rainfall Conditions

Version 1 : Received: 27 April 2022 / Approved: 29 April 2022 / Online: 29 April 2022 (12:52:48 CEST)

How to cite: Singh, S. K.; Vishwakarma, D. K.; Kashyap, P. S.; Al-Ansari, N.; Kumar, A.; Kumar, P.; Kumar, R.; Elbeltagi, A. Soil Erosion Control from Trash Residues at Varying Land Slopes Under Simulated Rainfall Conditions. Preprints 2022, 2022040302. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202204.0302.v1 Singh, S. K.; Vishwakarma, D. K.; Kashyap, P. S.; Al-Ansari, N.; Kumar, A.; Kumar, P.; Kumar, R.; Elbeltagi, A. Soil Erosion Control from Trash Residues at Varying Land Slopes Under Simulated Rainfall Conditions. Preprints 2022, 2022040302. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202204.0302.v1

Abstract

Trash mulches are very effective in preventing soil erosion; reduce sediment transport rate, runoff rate and increasing infiltration. The study was carried out with the objectives to observe the sediment outflow from sugar cane leaf (trash) mulch treatments at selected land slopes under simulated rainfall conditions by using rainfall simulator of size 10 m × 1.2 m × 0.5 m with the locally available soil material collected from Pantnagar. In the present study, trash mulches with different quantities were selected to observe the effect of mulching in soil loss reduction. The quantity of mulch was taken as, 6 t/ha, 8 t/ha and 10 t/ha, three rainfall intensities viz. 11cm/h, 13cm/h and 14.65cm/h at 0%, 2% and 4% land slopes were selected. The duration of rainfall was fixed (10 minutes) for every mulch treatment. The total runoff volume was found to be varying with different mulch rates for particular rainfall input and land slope. The runoff distribution pattern was observed to be increasing with the increase in land slope. The average sediment concentration (SC) and outflow was found to be increasing with the increasing land slope, but SC and outflow decreased with increasing mulch rate for particular land slope and rainfall intensity. The SOR (SOR) for no mulch treated land was higher as compared to trash mulch treated lands. Mathematical relationships were developed for relating SOR, SC, land slope and rainfall intensity for a particular mulch treatment. It was observed that values of SOR and average SC had a good correlation with rainfall intensity and land slope for each mulch treatment. The correlation coefficients of developed models were found to be more than 90%.

Keywords

Organic mulching; rainfall simulator; Hydraulic Tilting flume system; Sediment concentration; Sediment outflow rate

Subject

Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering

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