KR20110101023A - Submarine or submersible transfer systems for seabed or mining resource ores - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a seabed harvesting or mining resource ore transport system, and more particularly to collecting or mining submarines or submersible transport submarines, transport submarines from the transport submarines to the mother ship to collect the necessary resources from the seabed or The present invention relates to a transport system for mining and transporting efficiently and economically.

Submarine Resources, Submarines, Submersibles, Transport Systems

Description

Submarine or submersible transfer systems for subsea extraction or mining resource ores {omitted}

The present invention is to transfer the ore collected from the seabed or mined resource ore between submarines or submersible, to transport or submarine in the operation submarine or submersible to collect or mining resources from the seabed, from the transport submarine to the mother ship of the sea surface It relates to the transport of collection or mining resource ores between each ship.

The sea has mountains like land, mountains, and fields. Thus, there are resources that are buried and resources such as exposed manganese nodules.

Unlike the land, the sea is filled with seawater and there is a constrained situation where there is a pressure of 1 atmosphere increase at a depth of 10 meters.

In general, unlike the method of digging mountains from land mines and transporting resource ores on a train or a transportation tool, processing them in a processing plant, producing them and supplying them according to the required resources, they are found in deep oceans and transported by land and sea. Processing must be done at the factory, which is difficult due to the environment in which this series of transfers is by sea.

The transport process is carried out by humans at the depth where human access is possible, but deeper in the submarines or submersibles by attaching harvesting or mining equipment to humans and controlling them in a safe place. Submarines or submersibles collecting or mining resources are transported with resource ores collected or mined, and special transport pipes are connected to transport the collected or mined resources. That is, they are transported on their own or through connected pipes, unless they have special transport equipment.

The extraction or mining of resource ores from the boulder or deep sea bed must withstand the pressure of the natural environment of the sea. Thus, the extraction or mining of resources in the continental shelf or deep seabeds has been limited to oil and natural gas. This can be done by identifying the expected location of the site and by pulling up the mining pipe, either in liquid or gaseous form, as well as in the form of exposed solids such as manganese nodules, as well as the extraction of resource ores buried in the mountains, mountains and fields of the seabed; Mining is not done. This is due to the water pressure of 1 atmosphere increase in the depth of 10m given by the sea environment, and only manganese nodules are being collected.

Manganese nodules are also being harvested by the direct connection with the harvesting equipment and the sea level vessel. This is possible to some extent in depths of tens of meters or hundreds of meters, but this must also be through pipes directly connected between the harvesting equipment and the ship at sea level, so the amount of resource ore inhaled by the controlled harvesting equipment against the applied power is limited. Falls a lot.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention, there is a collection or mining submarine or submersible, there is a transport submarine for transporting the collected or mined resource ore, there is a mother ship of sea level to process and process the resource ore from the transport submarine In order to transfer the resource ore in the cargo hold between each submarine or submersible, a suction pipe that sucks the resource ore such as seawater is connected with a pressure pump, sucked and loaded into the cargo hold, and discharged when transferred to another submarine or submersible. The pipe is connected to the discharge pressurizing pump to discharge the resource ore, discharge and suction between each submarine or submersible to transfer the resource ore like seawater, load it into the cargo hold and discharge the seawater in the cargo hold.

After refining the remaining ore processed from the sea bus, the treated stone is transferred to the transport submarine. After loading in the cargo hold, the transport submarine moves to the sea floor and discharges the treated ore after refining the resource ore to the outlet.

A description with reference to the accompanying drawings is as follows.

1 is a cross-sectional view of a resource ore transport system of a transport submarine, with a suction system at the bow and a discharge system at the stern. Between the suction system and the discharge system there are cargo holds 3, 4 for storing resource ores.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a resource ore transport system of a transport submarine, in which the intake system and the discharge system are shown as in FIG. 1.

First mark the transport ore transport system of the resource ore between the harvesting or mining submarine or submersible and transport submarine (1) first, then the resource ore harvesting or mining submarine or submersible and transport submarine (1) identify each other's position and transport submarine (1) If it is located on top of a resource ore mining or mining submarine or submersible, the mining or mining submarine or submersible opens a discharge tube hatch and then drops the suction pipes (11, 12) from the transport submarine (1). In accordance with the discharge pipe of the submersible, while operating the ore extraction or mining submarine or submersible suction pressure pump, open the valve of each cargo hold suction pipe and fill the seawater in the cargo hold, the suction pressurization pump 13 and the resource ore of the transport submarine 1 When the discharge pressure is applied by operating the discharge pressurization pump of the extraction or mining submarine or submersible, Or the resource ore was in the cargo hold in the mining submarines or submersible along the discharge pipe is presented to the storage over a suction pipe (11, 12) of the handling submarine (1), such as sea water storage tank (3, 4).

After the transfer of the resource ore from the resource ore extraction or mining submarine or submersible to the transport submarine (1), the operation of the suction or pump of the resource ore extraction or mining submarine or submersible is stopped, and the The suction pressurizing pump 13 also stops operating. When the suction pipes 11 and 12 are separated from the transport submarine 1, the resource ore extraction or mining submarine or submersible again starts the suction pressure pump to fill the cargo with the appropriate amount of seawater to balance the overall balance.

After the suction pipes 11 and 12 are separated from the transport submarine 1 and before the hatch is closed, seawater may flow into the resource ore extraction or mining submarine or submersible cargo hold. The secondary flow of the seawater into the cargo hold is blocked by the valve. In the same manner, the transport submarine 1 also blocks seawater from entering the cargo hold 3, 4 of the transport submarine 1.

Next, look at the resource ore transport system from the transport submarine (1) to the mother ship of the sea level, first open the discharge tube hatch of the transport submarine (1) as in the upper part, and insert and fix the suction pipe from the mother ship, the transport submarine (1) The suction pressurizing pump 13 to operate the discharge pressurizing pump 26 while filling the seawater in the cargo hold 3, 4, carrying the suction pressurization pump by the suction pressurization pump in the mother ship (1) the cargo hold (3) , 4) The ore in the water is transferred to the cargo hold of the mother ship through the discharge pipes 21 and 23 as seawater as the suction pipe of the mother ship. Of course, before the operation of the discharge pressurizing pump 26 of the transport submarine 1, the valves 22 and 25 connected to the respective discharge pipes 21 and 24 are open.

Resource ores in the cargo hold (3, 4) in the transport submarine (1) center the center boundary line (6) of the bottom of the cargo hold (3, 4) in FIG. ), The ore is inclined toward the discharge pipes 21 and 24 so that the resource ore flows, such as seawater, and is transferred to the discharge pressure. After the transport of the resource ore of the transport submarine 1 is finished, the refining ore remaining after the refining of the resource ore in the mothership is carried out through the refining process inlets 31 and 33 of the cargo hold 3 and 4 of the transport submarine 1. Save to. After transfer to the cargo hold (3, 4) in the transport submarine (1) of the refined treatment stone, the transport submarine (1) moves and moves the resource ore refined treatment stone in the cargo hold (3, 4) to a fixed point. , 34), wherein the suction pressurization pump 13 of the transport submarine 1 is operated to suck the seawater to refine the refined treated stones in the cargo holds 3 and 4, respectively. Vented through).

Resource ore extraction or mining submarines or submersibles have a cargo hold like the transport submarine (1), but the suction system operates in conjunction with resource ore extraction or mining equipment to collect or mine resource ores and store them in the cargo hold. Of course, at this time, the suction pressure pump is operated to collect or mine the resource ore, such as seawater, and store it in the cargo hold.

1: Sectional view of the resource ore transport system of a transport submarine

2: Front view of the resource ore transport system of the transport submarine

Explanation of symbols on main parts of drawing

1. hauling submarine 2. sail

3. 1st cargo hold 4. 2nd cargo hold

5. Cargo hold bottom slope 6. Cargo hold bottom boundary

11. First cargo hold suction pipe 12. Second cargo hold suction pipe

13. Suction pressurized pump 14. First cargo hold suction valve

15. Second cargo hold suction line valve

21. First cargo discharge pipe 22. Second cargo discharge pipe

23. First cargo discharge pipe backflow prevention plate 24. Second cargo discharge pipe

25. Second cargo hold discharge line valve 26. Discharge pressurized pump

31. First Cargo Resource Ore Refining Process Stone Inlet

32. First Cargo Resources Ore Refining Treatment Stone Outlet

33. Second Cargo Resource Ore Refining Treatment Inlet

34. Second Cargo Resource Ore Refining Process Stone Outlet

Claims (4)

There are submarines or submersibles that collect resource ores, such as manganese nodules exposed from the seabed, or mines ore from mines in the mountains or mountains, and transport submarines that transport resource ores collected or mined from mining submarines or submersibles. In addition, there is a sea level mothership that transports resource ores from transport submarines so that each submarine or submersible has a cargo hold in each submarine or submersible to transport the resource ores from the cargo hold from each submarine or submersible to the mothership. Transfer system of mining resource ore In claim 1, each submarine or submersible has one or two or more suction pipes for transporting the resource ore in the cargo hold of the other submarine or submersible, there is one or two or more pressure pumps for suction, Pressurized pump is connected individually or integrally, so that it can take in resource ore like seawater and load it into the cargo hold and then discharge seawater in cargo hold. In claim 1, in each submarine or submersible, there is one or two or more discharge pipes for transporting the resource ore in the cargo hold, there is one or two or more pressure pumps for discharge, each discharge pipe and pressure pump Transport system for seabed extraction or mining resource ores that discharges and transports resource ores such as seawater because they are connected individually or integrally There are one or more resource ore refining inlets in the transport submarine for the refining of the remaining resource ores after refining by the transport submarines at sea level. Transporting ore extraction or mining resource ore that discharges ore refined ore to the place where one or more resource ore refined orifice outlets are installed together with suction seawater

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