A bucket wheel dredge system for offshore tin mining beyond the 50 m water depth Academic Article

abstract

• A bucket wheel dredge (BWD) for offshore tin mining is part of the long term plan of PT Timah TbK to identify new dredging technologies for mining in greater than 50 m water depths. Measured tin-ore physical properties are used in a new BWD computer model to investigate deep water tin mining. The model simulates the cutting and hydraulic transport of submerged tin-ore. The results show that hydraulic tin mining beyond water depths of 50 m is feasible. It is best to employ hydraulic transport for lifting the tin-ore from the ocean floor to the surface and to use barges to transport the tin-ore to land processing plants. 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

authors

• Randall, Robert

published proceedings

• OCEAN ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

• Albar, A., Randall, R. E., Dwibarto, B., & Edge, B. L.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Albar, A||Randall, RE||Dwibarto, B||Edge, BL

publication date

• November 2002

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Ocean Engineering  Journal

keywords

• Bucket Wheel Dredge
• Dredge Simulation
• Hydraulic Transport
• Tin Mining
• Tin-ore Physical Properties

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/S0029-8018(02)00003-3

start page

• 1751

end page

• 1767

volume

• 29

issue

• 14

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0029-8018(02)00003-3