Deep Sea Mining

April 25 - Mar 27, 2022

KEYNOTE LECTURES

PhD Van Thinh NGUYEN - Faculty of Oil and Gas, Hanoi university of Mining and Geology (HUMG), Vietnam

PhD Krzysztof Broda – Faculty of Civil Engineering and Resource Management, AGH University of Krakow, Poland.

DATES

Language of instruction: English
Courses will be organized online at AGH UST UPeL platform.
Total number of course hours: 45

Content and materials will be available only for registered and accepted students.

LECTURERS

PhD Van Thinh NGUYEN

Faculty of Oil and Gas, Hanoi university of Mining and Geology (HUMG), Vietnam
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A lecturer-researcher working at Faculty of Oil and Gas, Hanoi university of Mining and Geology (HUMG), Vietnam. He has spent 4 years studying in France, gaining a perfect experience of numerical simulation. His research intrerest focuses on multi-phase flow of oil and gas inside the transportation pipelines and Renewable Energy. He has a good computing skills (C++, ANSYS Fluent, PipeSim). As a researcher, he is a positive, motivated, and hard-working person who is keen to learn and contribute. Capable of working well both independently and in the teamwork environment under high pressure.

PhD Krzysztof Broda

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Resource Management, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
30 Mickiewicza Ave., 30-059 Krakow, Poland
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He works as an associated professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Resource Management. His research interests include the application of fluid mechanics and physics in deep sea mining and environmental engineering. For 7 years he was the vice-dean for education and student affairs at the Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering. At the Faculty, he is a coordinator of several Inter-institutional agreements in the Erasmus program.

ABOUT THE COURSE

The aim of the course of “Deep Sea Mining” is to familiarize students with the dynamically developing sea mining, including, in particular, the extraction of solid minerals from great depths. It should be assumed that the operation on an industrial scale will begin in the coming years. Poland also takes part in the race through Inter Ocean Metal (exploitation area licence in the Clipperton-Clarion Fracture Zone, Pacific) and from 2018 has the right to research and, in the future, exploitation in the Central Atlantic. Due to the specificity of the marine environment and the enormous requirements related to very high pressures, the proposed devices and methods are innovative and based on the latest technological and scientific achievements.

Lectures:

The occurrence of mineral deposits at the bottom of seas and oceans. Legal basis for the exploitation of marine minerals. International Seabed Authority. Polish mining activity at sea: Inter Ocean Metal and Petrobaltic. Outline of the history of sea mining. The MOHOLE program and methods of research on the seabed and mineral deposits. Contemporary methods of exploitation of submarine deposits: extraction of minerals using the borehole method, extraction of solid minerals by the so-called opencast and underground sea mining. High-depth offshore mining - types of deposits interesting from an economic point of view and technologies for their extraction (massive polymetallic sulphides, cobalt-bearing crusts, polymetallic nodules). Extraction methods (line-bucket, bucket, hydraulic, pneumatic-hydraulic, with the use of pyrotechnic materials, autonomous underwater vehicles) and some marine mining devices. Principles of designing marine mining equipment. Identification of hazards during the operation of mining systems of solid minerals from the seabed. Information on the processing of marine minerals. The impact of the exploitation of offshore deposits on the environment. Nautilus Minerals - exploitation of the Solwara field and others. Contemporary research and construction.

Exercises

1. Determination of sea water density as a function of depth, taking into account changes in salinity and temperature.

The programme is co-financed by the European Social Fund under the ‘Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development’ non-competitive project entitled
“Support for institutional capacity of Polish HEIs through establishment and implementation of international study programmes” (Action: 3.3 Internationalization of Polish higher education), specified in the application for project funding no. POWR.03.03.00-00-PN16 /18).

Contribution of European Funds: PLN 114 940,00