TY - GEN
T1 - Assessment of different technologies for vertical hydraulic transport in deep sea mining applications
AU - Verichev, Stanislav
AU - Drobadenko, Valery
AU - Malukhin, Nikolay
AU - Vilmis, Alexandr
AU - Lucieer, Pieter
AU - Heeren, John
AU - Van Doesburg, Bob
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Successful mining of deep sea deposits strongly depends on the proper choice of the right equipment. The most probable concept for a deep sea mining system would consist of the three major sub-components: Seafloor Mining Tool, Vertical Transport System and Mining Support Vessel. In this paper, emphasis is placed on the Vertical Transport System. We analyse the pros and cons of the different concepts such as hydraulic transport using centrifugal or positive-displacement slurry pumps, conventional and unconventional airlift systems, vertical offshore mining systems and vortex slurry transportation systems. All these systems are considered for their applicability at different water depths (from the relatively shallow to the relatively deep) for the different types of materials (from the relatively fine to the relatively coarse) and various production rates in terms of the efficiency, reliability and state of the art of technology.
AB - Successful mining of deep sea deposits strongly depends on the proper choice of the right equipment. The most probable concept for a deep sea mining system would consist of the three major sub-components: Seafloor Mining Tool, Vertical Transport System and Mining Support Vessel. In this paper, emphasis is placed on the Vertical Transport System. We analyse the pros and cons of the different concepts such as hydraulic transport using centrifugal or positive-displacement slurry pumps, conventional and unconventional airlift systems, vertical offshore mining systems and vortex slurry transportation systems. All these systems are considered for their applicability at different water depths (from the relatively shallow to the relatively deep) for the different types of materials (from the relatively fine to the relatively coarse) and various production rates in terms of the efficiency, reliability and state of the art of technology.
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U2 - 10.1115/OMAE2012-83156
DO - 10.1115/OMAE2012-83156
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84884494412
SN - 9780791844908
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE
SP - 137
EP - 144
BT - ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2012
T2 - ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2012
Y2 - 1 July 2012 through 6 July 2012
ER -