Technical feasibility study for slurry transport of the Atlantis II deep-sea mining field

Master thesis (2019)

Authors

S. Jorna Mechanical Engineering

Contributors

S.A. Miedema Offshore and Dredging Engineering - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (supervisor 1)
H. Hendrikse Offshore Engineering - CEG (supervisor 2)
T.D. Schouten Offshore and Dredging Engineering - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (supervisor 2)
Andrys Posthuma Allseas Engineering (supervisor 1)
Vincent Serlé Allseas Engineering (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering
Copyright: © 2019 Stijn Jorna
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Published Date

23-08-2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Deep-sea mining is becoming more popular. The Atlantis II Deep is a deep sea mining field of metalliferous muds in the Red Sea. This field could be exploited by transporting the sediments through a pipeline laid from shore onto the sea bed to the field. From determined concentrations with their shear stress-shear rate relation, parameters for the power law and Bingham plastic model were determined, relayed to test data, so that in the end the Bingham Plastic model was used to calculate pwoer consumption for a variety of cases.