《Laboratory Application of Laser GrainSize Analyzer in Determining Suspended Sediment Concentration》.pdfVIP

J. Ocean Univ. China (Oceanic and Coastal Sea Research) DOI 10.1007/s11802-014-1973-2 ISSN 1672-5182, 2014 13 (3): 375-380 /xbywb/ E-mail:xbywb@ Laboratory Application of Laser Grain-Size Analyzer in Determining Suspended Sediment Concentration * LIU Xiao, FENG Xiuli , LIU Jie, and LIN Lin College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, P. R. China (Received March 14, 2012; revised September 4, 2012; accepted December 23, 2013) © Ocean University of China, Science Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) is an important parameter in marine sedimentology. With the development of technology, many acoustic and optical devices, such as the Laser In-Situ Scattering and Transmissometry, have been designed to meas- ure in situ SSC and grain size distribution. But due to fund or other restrictions, many experiments were only conducted in laboratory, using an indoor laser grain-size analyzer and gravimetric method to measure grain size distribution and concentration, respectively. In this study the laboratory experiment is simplified by omitting the tiring step of gravimetric method. The connections between SSC and other parameters (obscuration, D50 and sorting index) were investigated based on 124 surface sediment samples collected from different offshore areas. A new method is developed for determining SSC in laboratory using a laser grain-size analyzer. Key words suspended sediment concentration; laser grain-size analyzer; grain size parameters; obscuration and Xu, 2006; Chen and Xu, 2008). With the develop- ment of technology, many acoustic and optical devices 1 Introduction