Potential of Flocculant-Aided Soil Slurry Dewatering in Land Reclamation: Laboratory Investigations
Table 1
Properties of the testing soil.
Location
Grain size distribution (%)
Specific gravity
Plastic limit (%)
Liquid limit (%)
Organic content (%)
Compression index
Permeability (100 kPa overburden pressure) (cm/s)
Sand (0.075–2 mm)
Silt (0.005–0.075 mm)
Clay (<0.005 mm)
Baimahu Lake, Jiangsu, China
3.3
50.6
46.1
2.65
27.9
65.3
3.83
0.775
1.4 × 10−8
The values of compression index and permeability were obtained from the oedometer tests on the resedimenting soil with the initial water content of 134.0%.
