Developmental tests on the underwater mining system using flexible riser concept

Proceedings of the ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 94-98

  Deepak, C R ^a   Shajahan, M A ^a   Atmanand, M A ^a   Annamalai, K ^a   Jeyamani, R ^a   Ravindran, M ^a   Schulte, E ^b   Handschuh, R ^b   Panthel, J ^b   Grebe, H ^b   Schwarz, W ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEAN TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crawler; Flexible riser; Sand mining system; Underwater mining vehicle

Indexed keywords

CRUSHERS; MANEUVERABILITY; MANGANESE NODULES; MARINE RISERS;

SAND MINING SYSTEM;

MINING MACHINERY;

EID: 0142154833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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