Breakthrough Solutions for the Sustainable Harvesting and Processing of Deep Sea Polymetallic Nodules

Projektinformationen

Blue Nodules

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 688975

DOI

10.3030/688975

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 11 Dezember 2015

Startdatum 1 Februar 2016

Enddatum 31 Juli 2020

Finanziert unter

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Gesamtkosten

€ 7 991 137,50

EU-Beitrag

€ 7 991 137,50

Koordiniert durch

IHC MINING BV
Netherlands

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Leistungen

Documents, reports (14)

Report on inventory of environmental pressures

Report on environmental pressures and recommendations for design priorities;

Report describing the process flow overview

Report describing the Knowledge about the flow composition and properties at each state beginning with the pick-up of PMN and ending with the VTS/disposal of sediment.

Report Mining platform specifications layout.

Report containing the Mining platform specifications and integrated layout.

Final release of the Terms of Reference report to be used in WP1-5
Guidelines and recommendations for environmental monitoring

Guidelines and recommendations for environmental monitoring during prototype mining

Test report Field tests

Report describing the test procedures and results

Final event

UNR The final report will be organized as described in ST6.2.2 and a short report of the final event will be provided

Report Rules and regulations

Report describing the Rules and regulations: compliance, recommendations and assessment model. Including the results of the outcome of the workshops organised

Report on environmental pressures arising from maritime operations
Report EIA assessment

Report describing the results of the EIA analyses and the outcome of the workshop with invited external experts

Initial design of vehicle propulsion and propulsion test performance

Report describing the initial design of the vehicle propulsion system for the laboratory test and field test. Fundamental know-how of hydraulic and mechanical collector design parameters and processes. Validation of Fundamental hypotheses of hydraulic and mechanical collector design parameters and processes.

Nodule Cracker Tool

Device for in-situ characterisation of mechanical nodule properties (D3.2), with basic knowledge of crushing behaviour of PMN in deep sea environment

Newsletter 1/4, 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 (M10, M22, M41, M52

Four html e-mail newsletters with links to Blue Nodules website will be released to the general public at months M10, M22, M35 and M46. At month 46 a short descriptive report with the newsletters will be provided

Website, templates and general flyer

Delivery of public Website, Flyer with general project information for dissemination, Project templates (reports, presentations, logo), database for Dissemination (stakeholders, interest groups, contact details)

Veröffentlichungen

Conference proceedings (4)

Regional Governance and the CCZ Environmental Management Plan

Autoren: Weaver, P.P.E. and Jones, D.O.B.
Veröffentlicht in: Towards an ISA Environmental Management Strategy for the Area. ISA Technical Study, Ausgabe 17, 2017, Seite(n) 77-79
Herausgeber: ISA

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY INTO FLOW ASSURANCE OF COARSE INCLINED SLURRIES

Autoren: Edwin de Hoog, Maarten in ’t Veld, Jort van Wijk and Arno Talmon
Veröffentlicht in: 18th International Conference on the Transport and Sedimentation of Solid Particles, Ausgabe 11-15 September 2017, 2017, ISSN 0867-7964
Herausgeber: Wroclaw University Poland

THE INFLUENCE OF NODULE DEGRADATION ON THE VERTICAL HYDRAULIC TRANSPORT OF MANGANESE NODULES

Autoren: Jort M. van Wijk
Veröffentlicht in: 18th International Conference on the Transport and Sedimentation of Solid Particles, Ausgabe 29-06-2017, 2017, ISSN 0867-7964
Herausgeber: Worslow University Poland

Overarching Issues Around Regional Governance of Deep Seabed Mining

Autoren: Jones, D.O.B. and Weaver, P.P.E.
Veröffentlicht in: Towards an ISA Environmental Management Strategy for the Area. ISA Technical Study, Ausgabe 17, 2017, Seite(n) 74-77
Herausgeber: ISA

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Impact fragmentation of polymetallic nodules under deep ocean pressure conditions

Autoren: J.M. van Wijk, S. Haalboom, E. de Hoog, H. de Stigter, M.G. Smit
Veröffentlicht in: Minerals Engineering, Ausgabe 134, 2019, Seite(n) 250-260, ISSN 0892-6875
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2019.02.015

Size reduction of CCZ polymetallic nodules under repeated impact fragmentation

Autoren: J.M. van Wijk, E. de Hoog
Veröffentlicht in: Results in Engineering, Ausgabe 7, 2020, Seite(n) 100154, ISSN 2590-1230
Herausgeber: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.rineng.2020.100154

Degradation of polymetallic nodules during hydraulic transport under influence of particle-wall and particle-particle interaction

Autoren: E. de Hoog, J.M. van Wijk, J.T.M. Wijnands, A.M. Talmon
Veröffentlicht in: Minerals Engineering, Ausgabe 155, 2020, Seite(n) 106415, ISSN 0892-6875
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2020.106415

A versatile marine modelling tool applied to arctic, temperate and tropical waters

Autoren: Janus Larsen, Christian Mohn, Ane Pastor, Marie Maar
Veröffentlicht in: PLOS ONE, Ausgabe 15/4, 2020, Seite(n) e0231193, ISSN 1932-6203
Herausgeber: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231193

Book chapters (2)

Improving Environmental Management Practices in Deep-Sea Mining

Autoren: D. S. M. Billett, D. O. B. Jones, P. P. E. Weaver
Veröffentlicht in: Environmental Ausgabes of Deep-Sea Mining - Impacts, Consequences and Policy Perspectives, 2019, Seite(n) 403-446, ISBN 978-3-030-12695-7
Herausgeber: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12696-4_15

Environmental Impacts of Nodule, Crust and Sulphide Mining: An Overview

Autoren: Philip P. E. Weaver, David Billett
Veröffentlicht in: Environmental Ausgabes of Deep-Sea Mining - Impacts, Consequences and Policy Perspectives, 2019, Seite(n) 27-62, ISBN 978-3-030-12695-7
Herausgeber: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12696-4_3