Soil erosion control from trash residues at varying land slopes under simulated rainfall conditions

Sachin Kumar Singh; Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma; Salwan Ali Abed; Nadhir Al-Ansari; P. S. Kashyap; Akhilesh Kumar; Pankaj Kumar; Rohitashw Kumar; Rajkumar Jat; Anuj Saraswat; Alban Kuriqi; Ahmed Elbeltagi; Salim Heddam; Sungwon Kim; Sachin Kumar Singh; Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma; Salwan Ali Abed; Nadhir Al-Ansari; P. S. Kashyap; Akhilesh Kumar; Pankaj Kumar; Rohitashw Kumar; Rajkumar Jat; Anuj Saraswat; Alban Kuriqi; Ahmed Elbeltagi; Salim Heddam; Sungwon Kim

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Soil erosion control from trash residues at varying land slopes under simulated rainfall conditions

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Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263145, India
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Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263145, India
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College of Science, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Qadisiyyah 58002, Iraq
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Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, 97187 Lulea, Sweden
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College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar Campus, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir 190025, India
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Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar 263145, Uttarakhand, India
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Department of Soil Science, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263145, India
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CERIS, Instituto Superior T´ecnico, University of Lisbon, 1649-004 Lisbon, Portugal
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Civil Engineering Department, University for Business and Technology, 10000 Pristina, Kosovo
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Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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Faculty of Science, Agronomy Department, Hydraulics Division, Laboratory of Research in Biodiversity Interaction Ecosystem and Biotechnology, University 20 Août 1955, Route El Hadaik, BP 26, Skikda, Algeria
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Department of Railroad Construction and Safety Engineering, Dongyang University, Yeongju, 36040, Republic of Korea

Academic Editor: Timon Rabczuk

Received: 28 November 2022 Revised: 06 April 2023 Accepted: 07 April 2023 Published: 27 April 2023

Trash mulches are remarkably effective in preventing soil erosion, reducing runoff-sediment transport-erosion, and increasing infiltration. The study was carried out to observe the sediment outflow from sugar cane leaf (trash) mulch treatments at selected land slopes under simulated rainfall conditions using a 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 on soil loss reduction. The number of mulches was taken as 6, 8 and 10 t/ha, three rainfall intensities viz. 11, 13 and 14.65 cm/h at 0, 2 and 4% land slopes were selected. The rainfall duration was fixed (10 minutes) for every mulch treatment. The total runoff volume varied with mulch rates for constant rainfall input and land slope. The average sediment concentration (SC) and sediment outflow rate (SOR) increased with the increasing land slope. However, SC and outflow decreased with the increasing mulch rate for a fixed land slope and rainfall intensity. The SOR for no mulch-treated land was higher than 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 SOR and average SC values correlated with rainfall intensity and land slope for each mulch treatment. The developed models' correlation coefficients were more than 90%.
- organic mulching,
- rainfall simulator,
- hydraulic tilting flume system,
- sediment concentration,
- sediment outflow rate
Citation: Sachin Kumar Singh, Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma, Salwan Ali Abed, Nadhir Al-Ansari, P. S. Kashyap, Akhilesh Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Rohitashw Kumar, Rajkumar Jat, Anuj Saraswat, Alban Kuriqi, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Salim Heddam, Sungwon Kim. Soil erosion control from trash residues at varying land slopes under simulated rainfall conditions[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2023, 20(6): 11403-11428. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2023506

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Trash mulches are remarkably effective in preventing soil erosion, reducing runoff-sediment transport-erosion, and increasing infiltration. The study was carried out to observe the sediment outflow from sugar cane leaf (trash) mulch treatments at selected land slopes under simulated rainfall conditions using a 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 on soil loss reduction. The number of mulches was taken as 6, 8 and 10 t/ha, three rainfall intensities viz. 11, 13 and 14.65 cm/h at 0, 2 and 4% land slopes were selected. The rainfall duration was fixed (10 minutes) for every mulch treatment. The total runoff volume varied with mulch rates for constant rainfall input and land slope. The average sediment concentration (SC) and sediment outflow rate (SOR) increased with the increasing land slope. However, SC and outflow decreased with the increasing mulch rate for a fixed land slope and rainfall intensity. The SOR for no mulch-treated land was higher than 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 SOR and average SC values correlated with rainfall intensity and land slope for each mulch treatment. The developed models' correlation coefficients were more than 90%.

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