Copyright © 1998 by International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers,
Golden, Colorado, USA. All Rights Reserved.
The Proceedings of
the Second (1997) ISOPE
OCEAN MINING SYMPOSIUM
Seoul, Korea,
November 24-26, 1997
Exploration and Survey, Environment,
Mining Systems and Technology, and Processing
A single volume: 202 pp.
International Standard Book Number: ISBN 1-880653-33-8
CONTENTS
| Foreword | ..... | iii |
| Acknowledgement | ..... | iv |
| Partial List of Reviewers | ..... | iv |
| Partial List of Reviewers | ..... | vi |
| Announcements and Publication Order Information | ..... | v |
| DEEP-OCEAN MINING - General and Review | ||
| An R & D Plan for Deep-Ocean Manganese Nodule Production Technology: Development of a TIS Program | ||
| In-Kyu Park, Keh Sik Min and Jin S. Chung | ..... | 1 |
| New Era for China Manganses Nodules Mining Summary of Last Five Years’ Research Activities and Prospective | ||
| Ning Yang and Minghe Wang | ..... | 8 |
| Survey Technologies and Their Breakthroughs for Deep-Sea Mineral Deposits | ||
| Tetsuo Yamazaki and Katsumi Yokokawa | ..... | 12 |
| Review of Studies on Manganese Nodules Processing | ||
| Kazuhiro Kojima | ..... | 19 |
| EXPLORATION AND SURVEY | ||
| Submersible Observations of Marine Manganese Deposits on Some Seamounts in the Northwestern Pacific: A Review | ||
| Akita Usui and Akira Nishimura | ..... | 23 |
| Law of Distribution of Manganese Nodules in the China’s Pioneer Investor Area | ||
| Dongyu Xu and Liang Hongfeng | ..... | 30 |
| Development and Preliminary Sea Trial of "OKPO-6000" AUV | ||
| Jongsik Woo and Mikhail D. Ageev | ..... | 35 |
| Estimation of Coverage and Size Distribution of Manganese Nodules Based on Image Processing Techniques | ||
| Seung Ho Park, Dae Hee Kim, Choon-Woo Kim, Chan Young Park and Jung Keuk Kang | ..... | 40 |
| Integrated Underwater Communication Network for Deep Sea Mining | ||
| Yong-Kon Lim, Jong-Won Park, Sup Hong and Seok Won Hong | ..... | 45 |
| Polymetallic Nodules - A Possible Source of Rare Earth Elements | ||
| R. Kotlinski and A. Parizek | ..... | 50 |
| MINING TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS | ||
| Comparison of Control Systems for Longitudinal Vibration of a Pipe String | ||
| Kazuo Aso | ..... | 57 |
| Feasibility Study on the Installation of a Lifting Pipe by the Tow Method | ||
| Young Sik Jang | ..... | 64 |
| Bending Strength of Lifting Pipes During Handling of Pipe Connection in Manganese Mining System | ||
| Tohru Ohta and M. Morikawa | ..... | 68 |
| 3-D Dynamic Analyses of Lifting Pipe Systems in Deep-Seabed Mining | ||
| Sup Hong | ..... | 75 |
| An Articulated Pipe System with Thrust Control for Deep-Ocean Mining | ||
| Jin S. Chung | ..... | 82 |
| Conceptual Design of a Hybrid Pick-up Device for Deep Ocean Mining | ||
| Keh Sik Min, Jae-Yong Shim, Sup Hong, Jong-Su Choi and H. Amann | ..... | 91 |
| The China’s Manganese Nodules Miner | ||
| Li Li and Jilong Zhang | ..... | 95 |
| A Kinematic and Sensitivity Analysis of Pick-Up Device of Deep-Sea Manganese Nodule Collector | ||
| Sup Hong, Jong-Su Choi and Jae-Yong Shim | ..... | 100 |
| A Study on Economics of Development of Deep-Seabed Manganese Nodules | ||
| Kyung-Sik Ham | ..... | 105 |
| Studies on Reasonable Hydraulic Lifting Parameters of Manganese Nodules | ||
| Jianxin Xia, Lingxu Xie, Weishen Zou, Dashen Tang, Jiazhen Huang and Shengzhan Wang | ..... | 112 |
| Overflow Volume Generated by Air-Lift Pump | ||
| Hi Sun Lee, Chi Ho Yoon, In Kee Kim, Kwang Soo Kwon, Joon Soo Kim, Sang Soo Kang and Dae Woo Kang | ..... | 117 |
| Mining for Cook Islands Nodules and Other Deposits Using the Turning CLB | ||
| Yoshio Masuda and Michael J. Cruikshank | ..... | 122 |
| ENVIRONMENT | ||
| The Japanese Environmental Impact Research for Manganese Nodule Mining | ||
| Yuji Kajitani | ..... | 131 |
| The Ecological Impacts of the Joint U.S.-Russian Benthic Impact Experiment | ||
| Dwinght D. Trueblood, Erdogan Ozturgut, Mikhail Pilipchuk and Ivan F. Gloumov | ..... | 139 |
| Benthic Disturbance and Monitoring Experiment in the Central Indian Ocean Basin | ||
| Rahul Sharma and B. Nagender Nath | ..... | 146 |
| Temperature Dependence of CO2 Solubility in Hydrate Region | ||
| Kenji Yamane, Izuo Aya and Hideki Nariai | ..... | 154 |
| Development of Image Analytical Technique for Resedimentation Induced by Nodule Mining | ||
| Tetsuo Yamazaki, Yuji Kajitani, Brian Barnett and Toru Suzuki | ..... | 159 |
| PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY | ||
| Aqueous Reduction of Polymetallic Nodule for Metal Extraction | ||
| R. P. Das and Shashi Anand | ..... | 165 |
| Study on the Leaching Mechanism of Cu and Ni from Deep-Sea Manganese Nodules with Hydrochloric Acid | ||
| Dong-Jin Kim and Kyung-Ho Park | ..... | 172 |
| Reduction Roasting of Deep Sea Manganese Nodules Using Liquid and Gaseous Reductants | ||
| S. Srikanth, T. C. Alex, Archana Agrawal and Premchand | ..... | 177 |
| Ammonia Leach and Solvent Extraction for the Recovery of Valuable Metals from Roast-Reduced Polymetallic Ocean Nodules | ||
| G. V. K. Puvvada, R. K. Jana, B. D. Pandey, D. Bagchi, V. Kumar and Premchand | ..... | 185 |
| VERBAL PRESENTATIONS | ||
| India’s Manganese Nodule Programme - An Overview of Its Activities | ||
| A. E. Muthunayagam | ||
| Sampling Strategies for Biological Deep-Sea Studies | ||
| Hjamal Thiel, H. Bluhm, C. Borowski, K. Vopel, A. Ahnert and G. Schrieber |