Efficient barge unloading
Heavy mixture discharge by DOP on excavator
- Period
- Q2-Q4/2022
- Product type
- DOP200 with sand mining head
- Head type
- Sand Production
- Job type
- Barge unloading
- Contractor
- Michels Construction Inc
- Area
- North America
Barge unloading
A DOP200 has been used at an upland disposal facility near Philadelphia to offload a continuous carousel of transport scows, also known as hopper barges. The sediment in the barges had been previously dredged hydraulically. The hopper cargo contained a mixture of silt, fine and coarse sand, and coarse materials such as small gravel, shells, coal and debris.
In total, some 26,000 cubic yards [some 20,000 m³] have been removed. At the upland disposal facility near the Schuylkill River, a booster station was added to the discharge the heavy mixture more than 1,000 feet [some 300 m] to the disposal site.
Mounted on excavator
The DOP pump was affixed to a Liebherr LH60 material handler located on a barge. The DOP dredge pump drive was directly powered by the excavator’s hydraulic system. The DOP has proven its worth as a more than adequate tool to offload and transport the heavy and varied dredged mixture to the disposal site.
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