HR: 0800h
AN: H21E-1400    [Abstracts]
TI: Design and Installation of Irrigation System for the Expansion of Sugar cane- Industries in Ahvaz, IRAN.
AU: * Afshari, E
EM: msu1352@yahoo.com
AF: Absou Consulting Engineers, 6th alley Parvaneh St. Jalal-e Al-e-ahmad Ave. Chamran Exp. Way, Tehran, 14399 Iran (Islamic Republic of)
AU: Afshari, S
EM: afshari1@egr.msu.edu
AF: Michigan State University College of Engineering, A121 Engineering Research Complex Department Of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI 48824 United States
AB: This paper presents achievements of a twelve years ongoing project expansion of sugar cane- industries as a major agricultural development in Ahvaz, IRAN. The entire project is divided in to seven units and each unit provides irrigation water for 30,000 acres of sugar cane farms in Ahwaz. Absou Inc. is one of the consulting firms that is in charge of design and overseeing installation of irrigation system as well as the development of lands for sugar-cane cultivation at one of the units, called Farabi unit .In general, the mission of project is to Pump fresh water from Karoon River and direct it to the sugar cane farm for irrigation. In particular, the task of design and installation include, (1) build a pumping station at Karoon River with capacity of 1271 ft3/sec, (2) transfer water by main channel from Karoon rive to the farm site 19 miles (3) install a secondary pumping stations which direct water from main channel to drainage pipes and provides water for local farms (4) build a secondary channels which carries water with pipe lines with total length of 42 miles and diameter of 16 to 32 inch. (5) install drainage pump stations and collectors (6) level the ground surface and prepare it for irrigation (7) build railroad for carrying sugar canes (23 miles). Thus far, more than 15,000 acres of farm in Farabi unit is under sugar cane cultivation. The presentation will illustrate more details about different aspects of the project including design, installation and construction phases.
DE: 1842 Irrigation
DE: 1884 Water supply
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005