WO2016106376A1 - Vehicle system and method - Google Patents
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- WO2016106376A1 WO2016106376A1 PCT/US2015/067495 US2015067495W WO2016106376A1 WO 2016106376 A1 WO2016106376 A1 WO 2016106376A1 US 2015067495 W US2015067495 W US 2015067495W WO 2016106376 A1 WO2016106376 A1 WO 2016106376A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
- B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
- B02C4/00—Crushing or disintegrating by roller mills
- B02C4/28—Details
- B02C4/286—Feeding devices
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
- B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
- B02C21/00—Disintegrating plant with or without drying of the material
- B02C21/02—Transportable disintegrating plant
- B02C21/026—Transportable disintegrating plant self-propelled
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
- B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
- B02C4/00—Crushing or disintegrating by roller mills
- B02C4/02—Crushing or disintegrating by roller mills with two or more rollers
- B02C4/08—Crushing or disintegrating by roller mills with two or more rollers with co-operating corrugated or toothed crushing-rollers
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
- E02F—DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
- E02F7/00—Equipment for conveying or separating excavated material
- E02F7/06—Delivery chutes or screening plants or mixing plants mounted on dredgers or excavators
- E02F7/065—Delivery chutes or screening plants or mixing plants mounted on dredgers or excavators mounted on a floating dredger
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
- E02F—DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
- E02F7/00—Equipment for conveying or separating excavated material
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L1/00—Laying or reclaiming pipes; Repairing or joining pipes on or under water
- F16L1/12—Laying or reclaiming pipes on or under water
- F16L1/16—Laying or reclaiming pipes on or under water on the bottom
- F16L1/166—Reclaiming pipes
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- the invention disclosed and taught herein relates generally to a system and method for use of a vehicle for use in environments such as but not limited to subsea environments.
- Pipeline support and stabilization mattresses have been used in subsea operations. There have been various designs over the years. For example, some of the early designs used large canvas bags that included materials such as bituminous material mixed with aggregates. There were issues with these designs. For example, when these mattresses were left of the deck of a vessel, they were prone to softening and the heat from the engine rooms or exposure of sunlight could affect the shape of the mattresses. Once installed in subsea locations, the mattresses could become brittle, crack, and become stiff enough to not properly lay on the pipeline or spool they were installed over. This could lead to accidents related to moving or lifting the mattresses.
- Another method is recovery by subsea modified skip or half-height.
- the mattresses must be individually rigged by diver or ROV at the seafloor using the frame/beam method described above, then lifted and placed into a modified half height container, which in turn must then be lifted to the surface via surface vessel or platform deck crane.
- Another method is recovery by steel wire rope nets or custom flat-racks.
- This method is a variation/alternative to the speedloader method described above, where by a number of mattresses are loaded subsea one at a time onto either out-spread steel cargo nets or flat-racks using the diver or ROV rigged frame/beam method and then the nets/flat racks are lifted to the surface via the vessel/platform deck crane.
- Another method is recovery by hydraulic grapple connected to vessel/platform deck crane.
- mattresses are lifted individually by large hydraulic grapple, subsea which partially crushes the mattress structure and the load is recovered to the vessel/platform deck.
- the total lift loads may be difficult to establish and there also may be high seabed suction loads.
- the method is also difficult for high volumes of mattress recovery because of the number of containers required and the amount of space required on the vessel deck.
- the use of the grapple to lift mattresses may be dangerous to personnel on the vessel deck as the load in recovered and there is a chance of snagging the underlying umbilical or pipeline as the mattress is grabbed and lifted from the seabed.
- the present invention relates to a vehicle and method of use in subsea operations related to crushing concrete mattresses including at least one lift assembly, at least one crushing roller, at least one blow out pipe cable of blowing crushed concrete mattress fragments into a rubble container.
- the vehicle has at least one fork lift connected to the lift assembly, a digger chain assembly arrangement, treads, an interface connected to the vehicle and capable of engaging the rubble container, and each rubble container is detachable from the interface.
- FIG. 1 shows a prior art front perspective view of a vehicle.
- FIG. 2 shows an overhead view of a vehicle engaging a concrete mattress.
- FIG. 3 shows an overhead view of a partial view of a vehicle engaging a concrete mattress.
- FIG. 4 shows an overhead view of a partial view of a vehicle capable of engaging a concrete mattress.
- FIG. 5 shows a partial, overhead view of a vehicle capable of engaging a concrete mattress.
- FIG. 6 shows an overhead view of a vehicle engaging a series of concrete mattresses.
- the proposed new method potentially offers a number of advantages and added value to the asset owner/operator and decommissioning contractor.
- the recovery and processing activities may be performed at the seabed without human intervention, thus effectively eliminating the risk to divers.
- the processed material when recovered to the surface can be in a more manageable form when being offloaded from the vessel and disposed of on land, there is no further processing required prior to disposal unless the polypropylene rope is to be recovered.
- the recovery and processing can be combined and provide a more efficient process in terms of speed and the number of handling operations being significantly reduced over current methods.
- the reduction in recovery and processing times per mattress offers value to both client and contractor.
- FIG. 1 shows a preferred embodiment of the vehicle.
- the vehicle 10 is disposed on a seabed 28.
- the treads 12, 14 are connected to the vehicle and allow for movement along the seabed 28.
- the lift assembly 16 is shown with fork lifts 18 connected that allow for engagement with concrete mattresses as will be discussed in greater detail below.
- This embodiment shows a digger chain assembly arrangement 30 on the lift assembly 16 in front of crushing rollers 32.
- the sea fastenings connecting a vessel to the vehicle 10 are released then vehicle 10 is launched. It is recommended that this launch occur at least about 50 m away from any subsea infrastructure.
- the vehicle 10 is lifted clear of the deck and the A- frame is boomed fully outboard. When instructed the vehicle is promptly lowered through the "splash zone" to approximately 5-10 m off the seabed.
- System checks are conducted once in water. When the tool is safely on the seabed, a full set of system checks are carried out to confirm the vehicle is ready for operation. On completion of these checks the tool is lifted 5-10 m off the seabed, the vessels moves to position the vehicle 10 ready to commence mattress recovery operations. Once on the seabed 28, the vehicle 10 moves to the start point as required.
- the loading process used on the vehicle 10 relies on a lift assembly 16 with preferably fork lifts 18 mounted to the front of the lift assembly 16.
- a lift assembly 16 with preferably fork lifts 18 mounted to the front of the lift assembly 16.
- the fork lifts 18 at the front of the lift assembly 16 will be submerged into the seabed 28, beneath the concrete mattress 20.
- This lift assembly 16 may preferably be fitted with a digger chain assembly arrangement 30 with grabs which will engage the mattress 20 and draw it towards the subsea crushing rollers 32.
- FIG. 3 shows the fork lifts 18 of the lift assembly 16 engaging a mattress 20.
- FIG. 4 shows a close up of where the mattress 20 is drawn into the mouth 34 of the subsea crushing rollers 32 using the digger chain assembly 30, the rollers 32 will crush the concrete mattresses 20 into aggregate, sized pieces called concrete mattress fragments preferably in accordance with client governed requirements.
- the digger chain assembly with grabs 30 will ensure that the mattress 20 is continually fed into the crushing rollers 32.
- the system is designed to allow for continuous mattress crushing operations, only pausing to change the rubble containers 36 when fully loaded. The vehicle operators may continually monitor the vehicle 10 forward speed, depending on the rate of crushing operations, ensuring optimal progress is maintained.
- a standard concrete mattress 20 which is typically about 6 m x about 3 m x about 0.3 m may be crushed in approximately 3 minutes from the instance of engagement with the crushing rollers 32.
- the crushing roller assembly 32 are preferably designed to ensure that all rubble is contained during crushing operations.
- the crushed aggregate and rubble will leave the rear of the crushing rollers 32 and will be educted via an attached blow-out pipe 38 using water pumps to a purpose designed container at the rear of the vehicle 10.
- the rubble collection containers 36 are connected via an interface frame 40 and will be loaded within the vehicle 10 using the interface frame 40.
- the rubble collection containers 36 may be designed to separate the rubble and polypropylene ropes used to bind the concrete mattresses 20 using grillages to filter the material as it enters.
- FIG. shows the vehicle 10 processes up to four concrete mattresses 20, 22, 24, and 26. While those skilled in the art will recognize that any number of concrete mattresses 20 may be processed with a vehicle 10 equipped with an appropriately sized rubble container 36, the preferred embodiment of the vehicle 10 is configured to accommodate the rubble of up to four mattresses 20, 22, 24, and 26. Once fully loaded with up to four standard concrete mattresses 20, 22, 24, and 26, the rubble collection container 36 can then be disengaged from interface frame 40 within the vehicle 10 and recovered using crane on a the vessel.
- the rubble containers 36 are preferably configured to be stackable as storage onboard a back deck of a vessels, allowing maximum mattress recovery per trip.
- the vehicle 10 can be recovered to deck, and the vessel will depart the field to off-load the crushed rubble. This can be performed using a combination of the crane of the vessel and a shore-side crane to ensure efficient removal, minimizing On completion of mattress crushing and recovery operations or when the vessel has reached its rubble capacity, the vehicle 10 will be recovered to the deck. The vehicle 10 may cease all subsea crushing operations and the front fork 18 can be recovered from the seabed 28. Once the team and vessel are ready, the vehicle 10 can be lifted from the seabed 28, by any means including an umbilical winch, to between about 5 and about 10 m off the seabed 28.
- the vessel is then moved up to about 50 m away from any subsea infrastructure, prior to the vehicle 10 being recovered through the water column and "splash zone" and into to an A-frame snubber, where it is safely latched in.
- the A-frame is then boomed inboard and the vehicle is lowered, whilst remaining in the latches, to the deck using the telescopic snubber. Once on deck the vehicle is earthed and secured to the deck, vessel time away from the site.
- the vehicle 10 may include powered track drive modules to propel the vehicle along the floor.
- the vehicle 10 may also contain a buoyancy power and communications module which is in communication with the armored lift, power, and telemetry umbilical.
- the vehicle 10 is preferably connected mechanically, electrically, and optically to a floating surface vessel or platform via a cable.
- the recovery vehicle system may also include surface equipment for the provision of launch, recovery, electrical power supply, and remote control of the vehicle.
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