EP0773880B1 - Procede et installation de plongee sous-marine en melange respiratoire a l'hydrogene - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to methods and scuba diving facilities in breathing mixture at hydrogen.
- the technical sector of the invention is the field of diving industrial submarine for medium and large interventions depth.
- One of the main applications of the invention is the possibility of diving from facilities ensuring immersion and pressurization of divers to a certain depth beyond 50 m, and allowing this diver to go perform a given job, safely and efficiently, until minus 650 m, thanks to the use of a ternary gas mixture baptized hydreliox, and containing at least helium, oxygen and of hydrogen, then bringing said plunger back to pressure atmospheric at the surface after a decompression phase.
- heliox is a mixture of helium and oxygen: a mixture is thus obtained ternary, mentioned in the introduction as part of the presentation of one of the main applications of the invention, called hydreliox which, when tested in accessible depth zones with heliox mixtures, has shown to improve significant the efficiency and the working capacity of the divers and, consequently, their safety and the reliability of human underwater interventions. Hydreliox also helps divers to intervene effectively beyond the limits of diving with heliox located, on an industrial level, around 350/450 meters. So under hydreliox, the record depth of minus 701 meters was reached in 1992 at the depositor's Hyperbaric Test Center under the control of the team of Doctor X. FRUCTUS, certainly in simulator hyperbaric.
- the objectives and the problem posed and that we want to solve in the present invention are to determine in a way industrial, repetitive, reliable, safe and by professional but not necessarily scientific, both criteria for using hydreliox mixtures, the compositions optimum of these to perform work safely and with the best efficiency, the diving processes using these mixtures, the means of controlling and controlling the composition of these, especially with respect to the hydrogen and oxygen levels, and the facilities for such dives.
- an enclosure filled with respiratory gas maintained at all times at the desired pressure P up to the depth p 2 is used , that is to say in the case of mixed diving as defined below for the resumption of possible hydrogen leaks which would occur in the enclosure, that is to say in the case of the saturation dive with hydrogen during the decompression phase to modify the rate of hydrogen in said enclosure, one circulates in closed loop said mixture of gases contained therein through at least one treatment circuit in which it is dehydrogenated before returning it to the enclosure; for this, said respiratory mixture is forced into said treatment circuit with a circulator and the gas mixture is thus passed through a catalytic oxidation reactor before returning the gas mixture thus dehydrogenated in said enclosure.
- a first safety valve we fill a buffer capacity of a given volume by opening a upstream charge valve, then, when the partial pressure of oxygen in said respiratory mixture which is then either that of said pregnant, the one directly breathed by the diver, descends in below a given threshold, the charge valve is closed and no one opens that then the downstream discharge valve through which oxygen escapes into said mixture to breathe, either towards the enclosure, or directly into the closed supply loop of the plunger, by at minus another safety valve.
- said person is pressurized and lowered into an enclosure which in this case is called a turret, until reaching the desired pressure and depth p 2 , using mixtures of respiratory gas not containing hydrogen; such a non-hydrogenated mixture is maintained in said enclosure for the duration of the intervention then of decompression; said person is supplied with a hydreliox type respiratory mixture using a circuit separate from those supplying said enclosure from the moment the person must leave said enclosure to perform his intervention and until his return to this enclosure.
- a respiratory mixture according to the present invention is such that it includes oxygen at a rate less than 4%, helium at a partial pressure of at least 0.1 MPa, hydrogen at a partial pressure of at least 0.33 MPa and at most 1.8 MPa, and other possible gases such as nitrogen with a total partial pressure less than 0.09 MPa.
- the rate hydrogen must be such that its partial pressure is always less than 1.8 MPa for exposure times less than about six hours and preferably less than 1.2 MPa for longer durations.
- the partial pressure of hydrogen used is then at least 0.38 MPa.
- the interest of the use such hydreliox gases only intervene for dives intervention beyond 70 meters, which then defines a pressure partial hydrogen used of at least 0.5 MPa.
- said plunger will be pressurized from the initial minimum pressure P 1 minimum to the diving depth p2 of the desired intervention, in supplying said person with the second type of hydreliox type respiratory mixture, the pressure P of which is increased as a function of the equivalent diving depth p to which this person is lowered: this second type of hydreliox type mixture must at all times comply with its composition the rates and percentages of gases defined above and sufficient quantities of helium and hydrogen are added to it, either simultaneously or alternately so as not to be located in one of the zones of the high pressure nervous syndrome or narcosis; after the desired intervention at said depth p2, the diver is decompressed by making him breathe the same type of mixture of hydreliox gas which respects the above proportions of composition and up to the pressure P 1 of 0.45 MPa from which replaces the hydreliox mixture with any other type of non-hydrogenated respiratory mixture.
- intervention diving there are two types of diving process, one of which is called intervention diving, and the other dive in saturation and for which the processes of the present invention can be applied according to different criteria described above and below.
- the intervention dive consists after each immersion, at immediately return to the surface at atmospheric pressure: it can be done either in a scuba suit with a reserve of high pressure gas carried by the plunger, at the surface requires for which the diver is connected to the surface by an umbilical which supplies it with respiratory gas from a high gas reserve pressure, in a wet turret called a reserve bubble gas or in a hyperbaric turret with a decompression chamber in area.
- Saturation diving consists of confining divers in one or more hyperbaric chambers, generally located on the surface, at the hydrostatic pressure equivalent to the depth of the site or the underwater operation: every day, the divers carry out a underwater intervention with transfer under pressure in a turret lift; decompression to return to pressure atmospheric occurs only at the end of the work or the authorized period of life in saturation.
- Saturation diving requires the use of heavy equipment, such as a caisson hyperbaric, turret, regeneration system, etc.
- qualification saturation status can be attributed to the types of dives exceeding a certain intervention time beyond which the decompression phases are identical anyway, whatever or the effective duration of the dive: thus, we can consider that, to get saturation with hydrogen, you have to breathe this gas to the operating pressure for at least 6 hours: a duration of breathing of this gas below this period will therefore not considered to be saturation with this gas. So, we take as practical saturation limit criteria for decompression curves identical, even if it doesn't correspond to what we can call the physiological tissue saturation which is to consider that there is as much gas not consumed and therefore not metabolized, dissolved in the organism than in the one we breathe.
- Figure 1 is a block diagram of a type diving installation with box and intervention turret for applying the method of the present invention.
- Figure 2 is a set of curves representing the type of mixtures usable according to the present invention and explaining certain process steps thereof.
- Figure 3 is a diagram of a following dehydrogenator the invention.
- Figure 4 is a diagram of an oxygenator according to the invention.
- Figure 1 shows a block diagram of a type of diving facility known to date with a set of surface saturation speakers 1, known as decompression, and an underwater enclosure 5 allowing to descend divers to the desired depth such as a turret dive 5; this enclosure could also be what is called a diving bubble in which the diver can shelter at least at the level of his head but which cannot be isolated from the middle in which it is located unlike a diving turret, such as shown in Figure 1.
- the respiratory mixture is recycled by a treatment system which then comprises at least on the one hand, gas regeneration equipment known to eliminate in particular carbon dioxide and on the other hand an oxygenator of the type of that shown in figure 4, specifically in the frame power to a speaker, but can be used in the case of a closed loop to oxygenate a respiratory mixture regardless of the enclosure.
- Said turret 5 shown in Figure 1 may include thus an external breathing loop 7 such as precisely a oxygenator shown in Figure 4 and inside its enclosure in addition to known regeneration equipment, a dehydrogenator 6 such as that described in FIG. 3, especially in the framework of mixed diving, to eliminate any hydrogen leakage which could emerge inside the enclosure 5 in order to keep the respiratory mixture thereof non-hydrogenated.
- an external breathing loop 7 such as precisely a oxygenator shown in Figure 4 and inside its enclosure in addition to known regeneration equipment
- a dehydrogenator 6 such as that described in FIG. 3, especially in the framework of mixed diving, to eliminate any hydrogen leakage which could emerge inside the enclosure 5 in order to keep the respiratory mixture thereof non-hydrogenated.
- compression or decompression from diver 8 to and from depth 18 can be done in said turret 5 but preferably at least the decompression in a surface box 1, by connecting a sealingly a side door 10 of said turret 5 brought back in surface after closing the lower door 9 and maintained at the pressure from depth 18, to another corresponding door 11 of said box.
- Figure 2 on the one hand represents the different areas of respiratory mixtures defined by the present invention and others part explains the pressurization process, supply and decompression according to the present invention: thus, the zones 19 and 20 represented are those covering the whole hydreliox respiratory mixtures according to the invention with in especially zone 19 up to 1.2 MPa partial pressure hydrogen, preferably used for periods longer than six hours, and zone 20 of up to 1.8 MPa for durations lower exposure.
- the plunger 8 is pressurized to a pressure absolute P1.14, at least 0.45 MPa with a first type of mixture not containing hydrogen and we feed at least from this pressure P1,14, said plunger 8 with a second type of breathing mixtures at pressure P depending on the diving depth p to which it is lowered; which second respiratory mixture is of the hydreliox type containing hydrogen at a minimum partial pressure of 0.33 Mpa, oxygen at less than 4% by volume, helium at more than 0.1 Mpa of pressure partial and other gases such as nitrogen at less than 0.09 Mpa total partial pressure.
- the final hydreliox mixture thus obtained is then maintained at the pressure P 2 18 of the diving depth p2 of the desired intervention and said person or said diver is authorized to perform the desired intervention at this depth p 2 by feeding it with this mixture.
- the curve represented 21 at the bottom of FIG. 2 below the zones 19.20, of hydreliox mixtures according to the invention is that of known binary mixtures of oxygen and hydrogen.
- the abscissa axis of all of these curves represents the partial pressures of hydrogen in Megapascal, and the ordinate axis represents on the left of the figure the density of the respiratory mixture obtained in grams per cubic decimeter and the equivalent in meters of water on the right mixtures of air with the same densities as those represented on the left scale: we notice that at 600 meters of diving in hydreliox mixture with 1.8 MPa of pressure partial hydrogen according to the present invention, at the limit of the zone 20 defined above, the diver actually breathes a gas having a density equivalent to an air dive at 70 meters.
- the curves 15 in Figure 2 represent for the same given depths, from 60 meters to 60 meters, for example, the variation of the density of respiratory mixture according to the invention, depending on the partial pressure of hydrogen it contains and appears on the abscissa: these curves are of course decreasing and linear at constant temperature.
- Figures 3 and 4 show diagrams of devices according to the invention allowing on the one hand power carry out the processes as defined above and on the other hand maintain the respiratory mixtures according to the invention in the composition limits indicated above.
- FIG. 3 is shown a dehydrogenator which allows either to modify on demand the rate of hydrogen in the saturation chamber 1 at the surface during the decompression phase for example, either to eliminate any hydrogen leakage in the case of mixed diving inside a diving enclosure or turret 5: this dehydrogenator can operate alone or in combination with a regenerator of gas for the elimination of carbon dioxide for example.
- Said enclosure 1.5 is connected to said dehydrogenator respectively 4.6 which comprises at least one circulator which can be either a circulator with variable flow 28, i.e. a circulator of the VENTURI 27 system type, or a combination of the two types.
- the dehydrogenation circuit also includes at least one catalytic oxidation reactor 22 containing catalyst which may be based on platinum or palladium: the gas flow through this reactor is controlled by an automatic valve 29 controlled by an electronic regulator 30, in order to maintain an optimum flow rate for the efficiency of said reactor. Its operating temperature is also controlled by this said electronic regulator 30 and serves as a decision parameter for the possible automatic locking of the dehydrogenator in the event of exceeding the limit temperature: the valves are closed safety 31 isolating the entire enclosure circuit 1.5, we injects helium through a valve 43 into said reactor 22 and we purge said helium by valve 44.
- a dehydrogenator can allow to oxidize 20 Nm3 of hydrogen under an operating pressure which can reach 8 MPa with a reaction temperature of 500 ° C.
- Such dehydrogenator can be installed in a diving turret 5 to eliminate any hydrogen leakage from a closed hydreliox supply circuit for the diver for a dive mixed; but if we want to eliminate large hydrogen capacities as in the case of a 1.5 enclosure completely filled with gas may contain hydrogen, during the phase in particular decompression, you must be able to remove the water produced by said reactor 22: for this, the dehydrogenator circuit then includes a capacitor 23 at the outlet of said reactor 22, connected to a chiller 24 as well as to a water and gas separator 25 at the outlet of said capacitor 23 which makes it possible to separate the water from the phase carbonated; this water is collected in a capacity 26 and is then evacuated by automatic level control through a purge valve 32.
- Said electronic regulator 30 ensures control of the assembly said valves 29, 31, 32, 43 and 44 as well as circulators 27,
- said closed loop or said enclosure 1.5 is then connected to an oxygenator 3 which has at least one capacity buffer 33 filled with oxygen provided on one side with a charging valve 42 and on the other a relief valve 34, as well as security 35; which charge and discharge valves are controlled by a regulator 37 connected to a sensor 38 for measuring the oxygen level in enclosure 1.5, or in the closed loop supplying said plunger 8, and which opens valve 34 when said rate drops below a given threshold and only when the valve 42 is closed; conversely, said valve 42 can only be opened when the automatic discharge valve 34 is closed.
- an oxygenator 3 which has at least one capacity buffer 33 filled with oxygen provided on one side with a charging valve 42 and on the other a relief valve 34, as well as security 35; which charge and discharge valves are controlled by a regulator 37 connected to a sensor 38 for measuring the oxygen level in enclosure 1.5, or in the closed loop supplying said plunger 8, and which opens valve 34 when said rate drops below a given threshold and only when the valve 42 is closed; conversely, said valve 42 can only be opened when the automatic discharge
- the opening time of said discharge valve 34 is a function the difference between the set point set on regulator 37 and the oxygen value read by sensors 38 and regulator analyzer 37 with a maximum opening time of less than half the time between two oxygen measurements: thus, only a quantity desired oxygen leaves 39 from the oxygenator via the automatic valve safety 35, either towards the enclosure, or in the closed loop and without there is therefore a risk of accumulation of too much oxygen raised in the same place in too short a time.
- the arrival of oxygen 36 is provided by storage bottles located outside of said enclosure 1.5, for example.
- said capacity buffer 33 can be doubled with a parallel circuit 40, in case one of the automatic charge and discharge valves 34,42 would come to fail.
- the safety valves 35 close automatically and a discharge valve 45 opens to evacuate and relax, at outside the enclosure or closed loop, the area upstream to the discharge safety valve 35; in the event of an operational stop and for safety reasons, these valves cannot be reset only manually as well as switching from one to the other parallel circuits 33 and 40.
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- des désordres physiologiques définis par le syndrome des hautes pressions regroupant divers syndromes neurologiques, articulaires, digestifs qui réduisent l'efficacité des plongeurs;
- des efforts respiratoires qui, en augmentant proportionnellement avec la profondeur, du fait de l'augmentation de la masse volumique du mélange respiratoire, d'autant plus élevé que le poids moléculaire de celui-ci est important, réduisent fortement la capacité de travail des plongeurs.
- on pressurise ladite personne jusqu'à une pression P1 absolue d'au moins 0,45 MPa avec un premier type de mélanges respiratoires ne contenant pas de l'hydrogène;
- on alimente au moins à partir de cette pression P1 ladite personne avec un deuxième type de mélanges respiratoires à la pression P en fonction de la profondeur de plongée p à laquelle on fait descendre ladite personne, lequel deuxième mélange respiratoire est de type hydréliox contenant de l'hydrogène à une pression partielle minimum de 0,33 MPa, de l'oxygène à moins de 4% en volume, de l'hélium à plus de 0,1 MPa de pression partielle et d'autres gaz tels que l'azote à moins de 0,09 MPa de pression partielle totale :
- on évite de fournir ce deuxième type de mélanges respiratoires hydrogénés suivant une composition qui situerait la plongée dans une des zones du syndrome nerveux des hautes pressions ou de narcose :
- on maintient l'alimentation du mélange hydréliox ainsi obtenu à la pression P2 de la profondeur de plongée p2 de l'intervention souhaitée et on autorise ladite personne à effectuer l'intervention voulue à cette profondeur p2 ;
- soit avec le même mélange respiratoire que celui remplissant ladite tourelle 5, ce qui permet de rejeter dans celle-ci les gaz expirés ;
- soit dans le cas de la plongée mixte définie précédemment, avec un mélange respiratoire différent de celui existant dans ladite tourelle ou bulle de plongée 5, lequel mélange respiratoire étant alors fourni par des réserves embarquées sur ladite enceinte de plongée 5, ou depuis la surface à travers un ombilical 13 reliant ladite enceinte à la surface : dans ce cas, le gaz expiré par le plongeur est soit rejeté dans le milieu ambiant par un circuit dit ouvert, soit récupéré en circuit fermé grâce à une boucle le reliant à la surface par ledit ombilical 13.
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- Procédé de mise en pression, d'alimentation pour effectuer une plongée d'intervention sous-marine en mélange respiratoire à l'hydrogène, et de décompression d'une personne (8) effectuant ladite plongée, caractérisé en ce que :on pressurise ladite personne jusqu'à une pression absolue P1 (14) d'au moins 0,45 MPa avec un premier type de mélanges respiratoires ne contenant pas de l'hydrogène;on alimente au moins à partir de cette pression P1 (14) ladite personne (8) avec un deuxième type de mélanges respiratoires à la pression P en fonction de la profondeur de plongée p à laquelle on fait descendre ladite personne, lequel deuxième mélange respiratoire est de type hydréliox contenant de l'hydrogène à une pression partielle minimum de 0,33 Mpa, de l'oxygène à moins de 4% en volume, de l'hélium à plus de 0,1 Mpa de pression partielle et d'autres gaz tels que l'azote à moins de 0,09 Mpa de pression partielle totale ;on évite de fournir ce deuxième type de mélanges respiratoires hydrogénés suivant une composition qui situerait la plongée dans une des zones du syndrome nerveux des hautes pressions (16) ou de narcose (17) ;on maintient l'alimentation du mélange hydréliox ainsi obtenu à la pression P2 (18) de la profondeur de plongée p2 de l'intervention souhaitée et on autorise ladite personne à effectuer l'intervention voulue à cette profondeur p2.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, utilisant au moins une enceinte (1,5) remplie d'un mélange de gaz respiratoire maintenu à tout instant à la pression P voulue, jusqu'à la profondeur d' intervention p2 (18), caractérisé en ce qu'on fait circuler en boucle fermée ledit mélange de gaz contenu dans cette enceinte à travers au moins un circuit de traitement (4, 6) dans lequel on le déshydrogène avant de le renvoyer dans l'enceinte (1, 5).
- Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce qu'on déshydrogène ledit mélange respiratoire à travers le circuit de traitement (4, 6) en forçant la circulation du gaz grâce à un circulateur (27, 28) et on fait traverser ainsi le mélange gazeux dans un réacteur (22) à oxydation catalytique avant de renvoyer le mélange de gaz ainsi déshydrogéné dans ladite enceinte (1, 5).
- Procédé selon la revendication 3 caractérisé en ce qu'après avoir fait traverser le mélange gazeux dans ledit réacteur (22), on condense l'eau résultant de l'oxydation avec l'hydrogène dans un condenseur (23) et on récupère celle-ci dans une capacité (26) distincte du circuit de traitement (4, 6) grâce à un séparateur (25) avant de renvoyer le mélange de gaz ainsi déshydrogéné (et déshumidifié) dans ladite enceinte (1, 5).
- Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 4, caractérisé en ce que :on pressurise et on descend ladite personne (8) dans une enceinte (5) jusqu'à atteindre la pression et la profondeur p2 (18) d'intervention souhaitées en utilisant des mélanges de gaz respiratoire ne contenant pas d'hydrogène;on maintient un tel mélange non hydrogéné dans ladite enceinte (5) pendant toute la durée de l'intervention puis de la décompression;on alimente ladite personne (8) en mélange respiratoire de type hydréliox à l'aide d'un circuit (12) distinct de ceux alimentant ladite enceinte (5) dès le moment où la personne doit sortir de ladite enceinte (5) pour effectuer son intervention et jusqu'à son retour dans cette enceinte.
- Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que, pour pressuriser ladite personne depuis la pression absolue P1 (14) jusqu'à la pression P2 d'intervention (18) :on augmente la pression P dudit mélange respiratoire hydréliox en fonction de la profondeur équivalente de plongée p en respectant les taux et pourcentages de gaz définis dans la revendication 1 et en rajoutant des quantités suffisantes d'hélium et d'hydrogène, soit simultanément, soit alternativement pour ne pas se situer dans une des zones du syndrome nerveux des hautes pressions (16) ou de narcose (17) ;après l'intervention voulue à ladite profondeur p2, on décomprime cette personne (8) en lui faisant respirer un même type de mélanges de gaz hydréliox qui respecte les proportions de composition précédentes et jusqu'au plus la pression P1 (14) de 0,45 MPa à partir de laquelle on remplace le mélange hydréliox par tout autre type de mélange respiratoire non hydrogéné.
- Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce qu'on rajoute de l'oxygène dans ledit mélange respiratoire depuis une réserve extérieure (36) à haute pression à travers un circuit oxygénateur (3), tel que, par une première vanne de sécurité (35) on remplit une capacité (33) tampon d'un volume donné par l'ouverture d'une vanne de charge (42) amont, puis, quand la pression partielle d'oxygène dans ledit mélange respiratoire descend en dessous d'un seuil donné, on ferme la vanne de charge (42) et on n'ouvre qu'alors la vanne de décharge aval (34) à travers laquelle l'oxygène s'échappe (39) dans ledit mélange à respirer par au moins une autre vanne de sécurité (35).
- Installation de mise en pression, d'alimentation pour effectuer une plongée d'intervention sous-marine en mélange respiratoire à l'hydrogène, et de décompression d'une personne (8) effectuant ladite plongée, comprenant au moins une enceinte (1,5) remplie d'un mélange de gaz respiratoire pouvant contenir de l'hydrogène, caractérisée en ce que ladite enceinte (1,5) est reliée à un déshydrogénateur (4,6) qui comporte au moins un circulateur (27, 28) dudit mélange de gaz, un réacteur (22) à oxydation catalytique, un condensateur (23) relié à un groupe froid (24), un séparateur (25) d'eau et du gaz, une vanne de régulation (29), diverses vannes de sécurité (31) et un régulateur électronique (30) de contrôle de l'ensemble desdites vannes, du circulateur, du réacteur, du condensateur et du séparateur.
- Installation de mise en pression, d'alimentation pour effectuer une plongée d'intervention sous-marine en mélange respiratoire à l'hydrogène, et de décompression d'une personne (8) effectuant ladite plongée, comprenant au moins une enceinte (1, 5) remplie d'un mélange de gaz respiratoire pouvant contenir de l'hydrogène, caractérisée en ce que ladite enceinte (1, 5) est reliée à un oxygénateur (3) qui comporte au moins une capacité tampon (33) remplie d'oxygène munie d'un côté d'une vanne de charge (42) et de l'autre d'une vanne de décharge (34), ainsi que des vannes de sécurité (35), lesquelles vannes de charge et de décharge étant pilotées par un régulateur (37) relié à un capteur (38) de mesure du taux d'oxygène dans l'enceinte et qui ouvre la vanne (34) quand ledit taux tombe endessous d'un seuil donné et uniquement quand la vanne (42) est fermée.
- Mélange respiratoire comportant au moins de l'hélium et de l'oxygène pour des plongées sous-marines dites mixtes et à plus de 35 m de profondeur, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend de l'oxygène à un taux inférieur à 4%, de l'hélium à une pression partielle d'au moins 0,1 MPa, de l'hydrogène à une pression partielle d'au moins de 0,33 MPa et au plus de 1,8 MPa, et d'autres gaz éventuels à une pression partielle totale inférieure à 0,09 MPa.
- Mélange respiratoire selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce qu'on utilise un tel mélange à des profondeurs de plongée au-delà de 50 m avec de l'hydrogène à une pression partielle de 0,38 MPa au moins.
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