Deep-Ocean Mining Technology III: Developments
Deep-Ocean Mining Technology III: Developments
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2009
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J. Chung
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J. Chung
该审查是对OMS-2005（Chung，2005年）审查的更新。报告还讨论了锰结核生产系统设计文献中已经确定的技术问题以及结壳采矿概念的初始阶段。似乎没有发现和解决新的问题。最近发现的埋藏结核将需要一个新的采矿者/收集者概念。按照目前逐步确定水深的办法，建立一个具有成本效益的商业深海采矿系统所需的时间将比声称的或预定的时间长得多。在过去10至15年里，在沿海水域中，设备设计和测试的目前渐进（逐步）方法深度不超过100米，可能值得重新评估，而不是针对5 000米深度的技术和系统开发的直接方法。
The review is an update from the review presented at the OMS-2005 (Chung, 2005). It includes discussions on the technical issues that have been already identified in the literature for manganese nodule production system design and on initial stages of crust mining concepts. It appears no new additional issues have yet been identified and solved. Recent discovery of the buried nodules would necessitate a new miner/collector concept. Under the present step-by-step waterdepth approach the realization of a cost-effective commercial deepocean mining system will take much longer than is claimed or targeted. The present incremental (step-by-step) approaches for not much deeper than 100 m in equipment design and testing in the coastal water for past 10 to 15 years may be worth re-assessing against a direct approach for 5,000-m depth technology and system development.