Abstract
Field studies of fine-sediment transport were carried out at Kapar coastal region, on the west coast of Malaysia Peninsula, during 1999 and 2000, in particular, near the Kapar power station construction where serious siltation was found. The work was aimed at the development of predictive models of suspended sediment concentration (SSC) and sedimentation rate in the vicinity of the Kapar power station construction. This paper reports the model development and its prediction of siltation in this particular region. A new approach is proposed to predicting sediment deposition rate (siltation) from a time derivative of the suspended sediment concentration, i.e. the erosion (dC/dt>O) or deposition (dC/dt<O) rates combined with the average depth from the bed through which the particles settle during deposition. The prediction of siltation rate is compared with the experimental survey result from 1985 to 1992 and a good agreement is achieved.
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