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- Title
Framework Conditions for Automated Milling Wheel Replacement under Deep Sea Conditions.
- Authors
Aurich, Swen; Sobczyk, Martin; Semel, Matthias; Wegerer, Stefan
- Abstract
As part of the „Deep Sea Sampling" research project, a trench cutter adapted for the extraction of marine massive sulphide ores shall be lowered from a ship into the deep sea and positioned and aligned on the seabed with the help of a landing unit (1). Once there, the system shall cut several slots into the rock at defined locations and convey the copper-bearing ore extracted in the process into containers, which can be separated from the system and transported back to the ship. Due to the large distance to the supply ship and since the milling tool wear out during extraction, it must be possible to change them directly on the seabed and without additional plant movement, in order to make extraction as efficient and economical as possible. A semi-autonomous technology therefore needs to be developed for changing the milling wheels, which enables a safe and fast change under the requirements of the deep sea.
- Subjects
ORE-dressing; OCEAN mining
- Publication
Mining Report, 2024, Vol 160, Issue 3, p263
- ISSN
2195-6529
- Publication type
Article