Witteveen+Bos Deventer Delft University of Technology FEASIBILITY STUDY COAL TRANSPORT KALIMANTAN Research on different alternatives for coal transport in the province of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. THESIS REPORT December 2011 ing. B. Christiaan Joppe Witteveen+Bos Deventer Delft University of Technology FEASIBILITY STUDY COAL TRANSPORT KALIMANTAN Research on different alternatives for coal transport in the province of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Author ing. B.C. Joppe Student nr. 1525336 Date December 31st 2011 Graduation Committee Prof. ir. T. Vellinga TU Delft, Ports & Waterways ir. P. Quist TU Delft, Ports & Waterways ing. M.G.M. Huijsmans Witteveen+Bos, Ports & HE Dr. ir. W. Daamen TU Delft, Transport & Planning ir. A. Talmon TU Delft, Dredging technology Delft University of Technology Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences Stevinweg 1 2628 CN Delft Witteveen+Bos P.O. Box 233 van Twickelostraat 2 7400 AE Deventer Table of content TABLE OF CONTENT Table of content ................................................................................................................................................. 5 List of figures .................................................................................................................................................... 11 List of tables ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 Preface............................................................................................................................................................. 19 Summery ......................................................................................................................................................... 21 Abbreviations and Definitions ........................................................................................................................... 32 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 33 1.1 Current transport system ............................................................................................................... 33 1.2 Project background ........................................................................................................................ 34 1.3 Project objective ............................................................................................................................ 34 1.4 Research questions ........................................................................................................................ 34 1.5 Research approach ......................................................................................................................... 36 1.6 Report lay out ................................................................................................................................ 37 2 Coal mining in a nutshell .......................................................................................................................... 38 2.1 Surface Mining ............................................................................................................................... 38 2.2 Types of coal .................................................................................................................................. 38 2.3 Coal market ................................................................................................................................... 39 3 The current transport system ................................................................................................................... 40 3.1 Transport network ......................................................................................................................... 41 3.2 Capacity of the transport system .................................................................................................... 42 3.3 Boundary conditions ...................................................................................................................... 43 3.3.1 Hydraulic boundary conditions................................................................................................... 43 3.3.2 Geotechnical boundary conditions ............................................................................................. 44 3.4 Description of the current transport chain ...................................................................................... 45 3.4.1 Coalmine area ........................................................................................................................... 46 3.4.2 Inland stockpiles ........................................................................................................................ 46 3.4.3 Tatakan transit stockpile ............................................................................................................ 47 3.4.4 Lok Buntar loading terminal ....................................................................................................... 47 December 2011 Page 5 of 196 FEASIBLITY STUDY COAL TRANSPORT KALIMANTAN 3.4.5 Sungai Mati river ....................................................................................................................... 47 3.4.6 Sungai Puting channel................................................................................................................ 48 3.4.7 Sungai Puting transhipment terminal ......................................................................................... 48 3.4.8 Sungai Negara river ................................................................................................................... 49 3.4.9 Sungai Barito river ..................................................................................................................... 49 3.4.10 Deep-sea transhipment arrangement......................................................................................... 50 4 Design criteria .......................................................................................................................................... 51 4.1 Future throughput capacity ............................................................................................................ 51 4.2 Governing coal carrier .................................................................................................................... 52 4.3 Different quality of coal .................................................................................................................. 52 4.4 Continuation existing traffic ........................................................................................................... 52 5 Investigation alternative transports systems ............................................................................................. 53 5.1 Investigated transport modes ......................................................................................................... 54 5.1.1 Coal transport by trucks ............................................................................................................. 54 5.1.2 Coal transport by barges ............................................................................................................ 55 5.1.3 Hydraulic transportation of coal ................................................................................................. 55 5.1.4 Coal transport by conveyor belt ................................................................................................. 56 5.2 Alternatives between the Mine area and Sungai Puting ................................................................... 57 5.3 Alternatives between Sungai Puting and deep-sea .......................................................................... 60 5.4 Alternatives without Sungai Puting terminal ................................................................................... 61 6 Selection of alternatives ........................................................................................................................... 63 6.1 Selection criteria ............................................................................................................................ 63 6.2 Qualitative selection for further research........................................................................................ 65 6.2.1 Alternatives 1.1 till 1.3 ............................................................................................................... 65 6.2.2 Alternatives 2.1 till 2.4 ............................................................................................................... 65 6.2.3 Alternatives 3.1 till 3.2 ............................................................................................................... 65 6.2.4 Alternative 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and 3.2 ................................................................................................. 65 6.2.5 Alternatives A and B .................................................................................................................. 66 6.3 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 66 7 The simulation model ............................................................................................................................... 67 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