JP6647743B2 - Underwater resource recovery device - Google Patents
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本発明は資源回収用管を備えた海中資源或いは海底資源等の水中資源回収装置に関する。 本発明による水中資源回収装置は海中、湖中、及び川中の生物資源又は植物資源或いは有 機物資源又は無機物資源の採取或いは海底、湖底、及び川底の生物資源又は植物資源の採取或いは有機物資源又は無機物資源の採掘に適用可能である。 The present invention relates to an apparatus for recovering underwater resources such as undersea resources or seabed resources provided with a pipe for recovering resources. The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to the present invention can be used to collect biological or plant resources or organic or inorganic resources in the sea, lakes and rivers, or to collect biological or plant resources in the sea floor, lake bottom and river bottom, or to collect organic resources or It is applicable to mining of inorganic resources.
日本の国土は世界第60位であるが、日本の排他的経済区域の広さは世界第6位である。 特に海底の有機物資源又は無機物資源を有効に活用する必要がある。 深海底地盤の掘削を行うときに用いるライザーシステム（特４４２７４４１）及び海上に 浮遊する海上構造物から垂下される蛇腹を具備する水中長大管（実用新案登録２５９３６ ６４）が従来提案されているが、未だ実施又は実用化されていない。 本出願人は、一端の上部に 水面上下部の水排出用開口とその上部に排気口を具備し他端 の下部に資源を回収する資源回収開口を具備する資源回収用管により前記資源回収用管内 の海水又は湖水或いは川水を循環して海中又は湖中或いは川中の生物資源又は植物資源或 いは有機物資源又は無機物資源を前記資源回収用管内に採取し或いは海底又は湖底或いは 川底近傍の生物資源又は植物資源或いは有機物資源又は無機物資源を前記資源回収用管内 に採取或いは採掘し、採取或いは採掘した前記資源を前記資源回収用管内に捕獲すること を特徴とする水中資源回収装置（特開2016−23539 ）海中資源或いは海底資源等の水中資 源を前記資源回収開口より採取し或いは採掘することを特徴とする水中資源回収装置及び 水中資源回収方法（特願2015−2737 ）を先出願として既に提案している。 Japan is the world's 60th largest country, but Japan's exclusive economic zone is the sixth largest in the world. In particular, it is necessary to effectively use the organic or inorganic resources on the seabed. A riser system (Japanese Patent No. 4427441) used for excavating the deep sea floor and a long underwater large pipe having a bellows drooping from a marine structure floating on the sea (Utility Model Registration 2593664) have been proposed. Not yet implemented or put into practical use. The applicant of the present invention has proposed a resource recovery pipe provided with a water discharge opening at the top and bottom of the water surface at one end and an exhaust port at the top, and a resource recovery opening at the bottom at the other end to collect resources . seawater or lake water, or sea or Mizuumichu or biological resources or plant resources some have a midstream circulates Kawasui is collected organic resources or inorganic resources to the resource recovery pipe or the seabed or lakebed or riverbed near the tube biological resources or plant resources or organic resource or inorganic resources collected or mined the resource recovery pipe, harvested or mined water resource recovery apparatus characterized by capturing the resources to the resource recovery pipe of (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2016-23539) An underwater resource recovery apparatus and a method for recovering underwater resources, such as underwater resources or undersea resources, which are collected or mined from the above-mentioned resource recovery openings (Japanese Patent Application No. 2015-23539). 2737) has already been proposed as an earlier application.
本発明は前記先出願の関連出願に関し、水面上例えば、海上の浮体から海中或いは海底等の回収位置を 変更可能な水中資源回収装置及び水中資源回収方法を提供することを目的とする。 The present invention relates to the related application of the prior application, and an object of the present invention is to provide an underwater resource recovery apparatus and an underwater resource recovery method capable of changing a recovery position on a water surface, for example, from a floating body on the sea to the sea or the sea floor.
本願発明は、一端の上部に 水面上の下部に配置された水排出用開口とその上部に配置された排気口を一端の上部に具備し他 端の下部に海底等水中の有機物資源又は無機物資源を採掘する資源回収開口を具備する資 源回収構造物により前記資源回収構造物内の海水又は湖水或いは川水を上部に徐々に移動して資源を前記資 源回収開口より採取し或いは採掘することを特徴とする水中資源回収装置及び水中資源回 収方法に関し、前記資源回収構造物の他端の資源回収開口に可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ライ ザー管を接続し前記可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管の他端に上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた回収用下部開口部材が 接続され水面上 から前記回収用下部開口部材の位置を母船の近傍の水面上 から変更して資源の回 収位置を変更可能な水中資源回収装置及び水中資源回収方法を提供するものである。
請求項1に記載の水中資源回収装置は、 水面上の下部に配置された水排出用開口と前記水排出用開口の 上部に配置された排気口を一端の上部に具備し他端の下部に資源を回収する資源回収開口を具備する資源回収構造物と、前記資源回収構造物の内部を貫通し内部の水面が前記資源回収構造物外の水面と同じであ る際前記水排出用開口を閉鎖する比重が水より小さな内部貫通部材と、前記資源回収構造物 の前記資源回収開口に接続された可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管と、前記可撓性 回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管の他端を内蔵し水面上の浮体から上下を 含む三次元に移動可能で前記可撓性 回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管の他端と反対側の下方に開口を備えた回収用下部開口部材を備え、前記資源回収構造物内で前記内部貫通部材の上部の空気を前記排気口より排気することにより前記資源回収構造物内の水面を前記資源回収構造物外の水面より上部に動させて前記内部貫通部 材を前記資源回収構造物内の上部に移動させ前記水排出開口の閉鎖状態を開放状態にし前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水或いは川水 を前記資源回収構造物の外に放出して前記資源回収構造物内の海水又は湖水或いは川水を徐々 に上部に移動させ前記資源回収構造物内の海水又は湖水或いは川水を吸い上げることにより前 記回収用下部開口部材内から前記可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ラ イザー管を介して採取或いは採掘された資源が前記資源回収開口より前記資源回収構造物内に採取或いは採掘されて前記 資源を捕獲して前記資源を回収することを特徴とする。
請求項２に記載の水中資源回収装置は、 前記資源回収構造物の水排出用開口の下部にフィル ターを具備することを特徴とする請求項１に記載の水中資源回収装置である。
請求項３に記載の水中資源回収装置は、前記回収用下部開口部材内部に撮像手段及び発光手 段を備えることを特徴とする請求項１或いは請求項２に記載の水中資源回収装置である。
請求項４に記載の水中資源回収装置は、前記回収用下部開口部材内部に掘削装置或いは採掘 装置を備えることを特徴とする請求項１〜３に記載の水中資源回収装置である。
請求項５に記載の水中資源回収装置は、前記資源回収構造物一端の上部を保持する保持部材 を具備する浮体構造物を備えることを特徴とする請求項１〜４に記載の水中資源回収装置 である。
請求項６に記載の水中資源回収装置は、 前記資源回収構造物の他端の下部に前記資源回収開 口を閉鎖する資源開口閉鎖手段と、前記資源回収構造物の他端の下部に繋がれたくさり を具備し、前記資源回収構造物内に資源を採取或いは採掘し前記資源開口閉鎖手段により前 記資源回収開口を閉鎖し前記資源を捕獲した後前記資源回収構造物が前記くさりを介して浮 上させられ前記浮体構造物と浮上した前記資源回収構造物を移動させることにより前記資源を回収するこ とを特徴とする請求項５に記載の水中資源回収装置である。
請求項７に記載の水中資源回収装置は、水面上の前記浮体が前記回収用下部開口部材を三次元に移動するため巻 くリールを具備するこ とを特徴とする請求項１〜６に記載の水中資源回収装置である。
The invention of the present application is directed to providing an organic or inorganic resource in water such as a seabed at an upper end of a water discharge opening disposed at a lower portion on the water surface and an exhaust port disposed at an upper portion thereof at an upper end thereof, and at a lower end of the other end. The seawater, lake water, or river water in the resource recovery structure is gradually moved upward by a resource recovery structure having a resource recovery opening to extract or extract resources from the resource recovery opening. The present invention relates to an underwater resource recovery apparatus and an underwater resource recovery method, wherein a flexible recovery pipe or a flexible riser pipe is connected to a resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery structure. Alternatively, the lower end of the flexible riser pipe is connected to a lower collection member which is movable in three dimensions including up and down and has an opening below, and the position of the lower collection member for recovery is set from above the water surface to the water surface near the mother ship. Change from top to resource times It is an object of the present invention to provide an underwater resource recovery apparatus and a method for recovering an underwater resource, the storage position of which can be changed.
The underwater resource recovery device according to claim 1, further comprising: a water discharge opening disposed at a lower part of the water surface and an exhaust port disposed at an upper part of the water discharge opening at an upper part at one end and a lower part at the other end. A resource recovery structure provided with a resource recovery opening for recovering resources, and the water discharge opening penetrating the inside of the resource recovery structure when the water surface inside is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery structure. An internal penetrating member having a specific gravity smaller than that of water, a flexible collection tube or a flexible riser tube connected to the resource collection opening of the resource collection structure, and the flexible collection tube or the flexible riser. A lower collection opening having a lower end opposite to the other end of the flexible collection tube or the flexible riser tube and having the other end of the tube built therein and movable in three dimensions including up and down from a floating body on the water surface. A member, wherein said internal penetrating member within said resource recovery structure By exhausting upper air from the exhaust port, the water surface in the resource recovery structure is moved above the water surface outside the resource recovery structure, and the internal penetrating member is moved upward in the resource recovery structure. Moving the water discharge opening to a closed state to release the seawater, lake water, or river water from the water discharge opening to the outside of the resource recovery structure, and discharging the seawater, lake water, or river water in the resource recovery structure. Is gradually moved to the upper part, and the seawater, lake water, or river water in the resource recovery structure is sucked up to collect the water from the lower opening member for recovery through the flexible recovery pipe or the flexible riser pipe. Alternatively, the mined resources are collected or mined into the resource recovery structure from the resource recovery opening, and the resources are captured to recover the resources.
The underwater resource recovery device according to claim 2, further comprising a filter below a water discharge opening of the resource recovery structure.
The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 3 is an underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising an imaging unit and a light emitting means inside the lower opening member for recovery.
The underwater resource recovery device according to a fourth aspect is the underwater resource recovery device according to the first to third aspects, wherein a digging device or a mining device is provided inside the lower opening member for recovery.
The underwater resource recovery device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the underwater resource recovery device according to claim 5, further comprising a floating structure including a holding member configured to hold an upper portion of one end of the resource recovery structure. It is.
The underwater resource recovery device according to claim 6, wherein a resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening below the other end of the resource recovery structure, and connected to a lower portion of the other end of the resource recovery structure. After collecting or mining the resources in the resource recovery structure, closing the resource recovery opening by the resource opening closing means and capturing the resources, the resource recovery structure is provided through the bore. The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the resource is recovered by moving the floating structure and the resource recovery structure that has floated.
7. The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the floating body on the water surface is provided with a reel wound to move the lower opening member for recovery three-dimensionally. Underwater resource recovery equipment.
水面上の浮体から下方に開口を備えた前記回収用柔軟性筺体が金属線等を介して上下を含 む三次元に移動可能で前記可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管を介して前記資源回収開 口より海中又は湖中或いは川中の生物資源又は植物資源或いは海底又は湖底或いは川底近 傍の有機物資源又は無機物資源を前記資源回収用管内に採取或いは採掘し、採取或いは採 掘した前記資源を前記資源回収用管内に捕獲するので前記回収用柔軟性筺体内と前記可撓性 回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管及び前記資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水或いは川水の循環 のみであるので周囲環境に何ら影響を与えることはない。 また前記資源回収用管が前記くさりを介して海面又は湖面或いは川面近傍に移動され前記 資源回収用管を水平方向に移動して捕獲した前記資源を回収するので前記資源回収用管を 地上の処理施設で適切に処理すれば周囲環境に何ら影響を与えることはない。 The recovery flexible housing having an opening below the floating body on the water surface can be moved three-dimensionally including up and down via a metal wire or the like, and can be moved through the flexible recovery tube or the flexible riser tube. underwater or Mizuumichu or midstream of organic resources or inorganic resources of biological resources or plant resources or seabed or lakebed or riverbed near neighbor from resource collection apertures harvested or mined the resource recovery tube, collected or mining the above since capturing resources to the resource recovery pipe in the the recovery flexibility within the housing wherein the flexible collection pipe or seawater flexible riser pipe and the resources in the recovery pipe or lake water or Kawasui circulation only on There is no impact on the surrounding environment. The ground processing the resource recovery pipe since recovering the resource the resource recovery pipe is moved to the vicinity of the sea surface or lake or river through the Chain captured by moving the resource recovery pipe in the horizontal direction Proper treatment at the facility has no effect on the surrounding environment.
本発明による水中資源回収装置の第一の実施形態は、水中の生物資源又は植物資源或い は有機物資源又は無機物資源の採取の実施形態で、一端の上部に 水面上下部の水排出用開口とその下部に水のみを通過させるフィルターと前記水排出用開口の上部に空気排出開 口を具備すると共に他端の下部に海中又は湖中或いは川中の資源を採取する資源回収開口と 前記資源回収開口を閉鎖する資源開口閉鎖手段を具備する例えば円形資源回収用管と、前 記円形資源回収用管の一端の上部を保持する保持部材と前記水排出用開口から排出される 水を貯水する着脱可能な貯水槽を具備する浮体構造物と、前記円形資源回収用管の内部を 貫通し内部の水面が前記資源回収用管外の水面と同じの際前記水排出用開口を閉鎖する比 重が水より小さく中央開口を具備する円形内部貫通部材と、前記資源回収用管の他端の資 源回収開口に接続された可撓性回収管と、金属線等を巻くリールを具備する別設の水面上の 浮体と、前記可撓性回収管の他端に接続され水面上の前記浮体から前記金属線等を介して上 下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた回収用柔軟性筺体と、風力発電等自然エネルギー発電手段と、前記空気排出開口と接続され前記円形資源回収用管内で前記円形内部貫通部材の上部の空気を前記自然エネルギー発電手段により排気する空気排気手段と、 前記回収用柔軟性筺体内に具備された撮像手段及び発光手段と、前記浮体構造物に具備さ れ前記撮像手段の出力を表示する表示手段とを備え、前記水面上の浮体を移動すると共に前 記表示手段により前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源を検出し前記空気排気手段により前記円形資 源回収用管内の前記内部貫通部材の上部の空気を排気することにより前記円形資源回収用管内 の水面を前記円形資源回収用管外の水面より上部に移動させて前記円形内部貫通部材を前記円形資源回 収用管内の上部に移動させ前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水或いは川水を前記円形資源回収 用管の外に放出して前記貯水槽に貯水すると共に前記円形資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水或い は川水を徐々に上部に移動させて循環することにより前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源が前 記可撓性回収管を介して前記資源回収開口より挿入され前記円形資源回収用管内に採取した後 、前記資源開口閉鎖手段により前記資源回収開口を閉鎖して前記資源を捕獲すると共に前 記円形資源回収用管の前記資源回収開口を海面又は湖面或いは川面近傍に移動し前記円形資源回収 用管を水平方向に移動して捕獲した前記資源を回収することを特徴とする。 The first embodiment of the underwater resource recovery apparatus according to the present invention is an embodiment of collecting biological resources or plant resources or organic resources or inorganic resources in water, and has an opening for discharging water at upper and lower portions of the water surface at one end. A filter that allows only water to pass therethrough, an air discharge opening above the water discharge opening, and a resource collection opening below the other end for collecting resources in the sea, lake or river, and the resource collection opening E.g., a circular resource collection pipe having a resource opening closing means for closing the pipe, a holding member for holding an upper end of one end of the circular resource collection pipe, and a detachable tank for storing water discharged from the water discharge opening. And a specific gravity that closes the water discharge opening when the inside of the circular resource recovery pipe penetrates through the inside of the circular resource recovery pipe and the inside water surface is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe. Smaller central opening A circular inner penetrating member, a flexible recovery tube connected to a resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery tube, and a separate floating body on the water surface having a reel for winding a metal wire or the like. A flexible housing for collection, which is connected to the other end of the flexible collection pipe, is movable three-dimensionally including upper and lower portions from the floating body on the water surface via the metal wire, and has an opening at the bottom, Natural energy power generation means such as power generation, air exhaust means connected to the air discharge opening, and air exhaust means for exhausting air above the circular inner penetrating member in the circular resource recovery pipe by the natural energy power generation means, and the recovery flexibility An imaging unit and a light-emitting unit provided in a housing; and a display unit provided in the floating structure for displaying an output of the imaging unit. The floating unit on the water surface is moved, and the display unit is provided with the display unit. In a flexible housing for recovery By detecting resources and exhausting air above the internal penetrating member in the circular resource collecting pipe by the air exhaust means, the water surface in the circular resource collecting pipe is higher than the water surface outside the circular resource collecting pipe. To move the circular inner penetrating member to the upper part of the circular resource collecting pipe, and discharge seawater, lake water or river water from the circular resource collecting pipe to the outside of the circular resource collecting pipe through the water discharge opening to the water storage tank. By storing the water and circulating the seawater, lake water or river water in the circular resource recovery pipe gradually upward and circulating the resources, the resources in the flexible housing for recovery are transferred through the flexible recovery pipe. After being inserted from the resource recovery opening and collected in the circular resource recovery pipe, the resource recovery opening is closed by the resource opening closing means to capture the resource, and the resource of the circular resource recovery pipe is collected. And recovering the resources that captured by moving the circular resource recovery pipe in the horizontal direction to move the yield opening sea or lake or river near.
本発明による海中資源或いは海底資源等の水中資源回収装置の第二の実施形態は海底又 は湖底或いは川底近傍の例えばウニ等の生物資源又は植物資源を採取し或いはメタンハイ ドレート等の有機物資源又はレアメタル等の無機物資源を採掘する実施形態で、一端の上 部に 水面上下部の水排出用開口とその下部に水のみを通過させるフィルターと前記水排 出用開口の上部に空気排出開口を具備すると共に他端の下部に資源を採取或いは採掘する 資源回収開口と前記資源回収開口を閉鎖する資源開口閉鎖手段を具備する例えば円形 資源回収用管と、前記円形資源回収用管の一端の上部を保持する保持部材と前記水排出用 開口から排出される水を貯水する着脱可能な貯水槽を具備する浮体構造物と、前記円形資 源回収用管の内部を貫通し内部の水面が前記資源回収用管外の水面と同じの際前記水排出 用開口を閉鎖する比重が水より小さく中央開口を具備する円形内部貫通部材と、前記資源 回収用管の他端の資源回収開口に接続された可撓性ライザー管と、金属線等を巻くリール を具備する別設の水面上の浮体と、前記可撓性ライザー管の他端に接続され水面上の前記浮体 から前記金属線等を介して上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた回収用柔軟 性筺体と、風力発電等自然エネルギー発電手段と、前記空気排出開口と接続され前記円形 資源回収用管内で前記円形内部貫通部材の上部の空気を前記自然エネルギー発電手段によ り排気する空気排気手段と、前記回収用柔軟性筺体内に具備された撮像手段及び発光手段 と、前記浮体構造物に具備され前記撮像手段の出力を表示する表示手段とを備え、水面上の 前記浮体により前記回収用柔軟性筺体の位置を変更すると共に前記表示手段により前記回 収用柔軟性筺体内の資源を検出し前記空気排気手段により前記円形資源回収用管内の前記円形内部 貫通部材の上部の空気を排気することにより前記円形資源回収用管内の水面を前記円形資源回収用 管外の水面より上部に移動させて前記円形内部貫通部材を前記円形資源回収用管内の上部に移動さ せ前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水或いは川水を前記円形資源回収用管の外に放出して前記 貯水槽に貯水すると共に前記円形資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水或いは川水を徐々に上部に移 動させて循環することにより前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源が前記可撓性ライザー管を介 して前記資源回収開口より挿入され前記円形資源回収用管内に採取又は採掘した後、前記資源 開口閉鎖手段により前記資源回収開口を閉鎖して前記資源を捕獲すると共に前記円形資源回収 用管の前記資源回収開口を海面又は湖面或いは川面近傍に移動し前記円形資源回収用管を水平 方向に移動して捕獲した前記資源を回収することを特徴とする。 The second embodiment of the apparatus for recovering underwater resources such as undersea resources or undersea resources according to the present invention is to collect biological resources or plant resources such as sea urchins near the seabed or lake bottom or riverbed, or to use organic resources such as methane hydrate or rare metal. In this embodiment, a water discharge opening is provided at the upper part of the water surface, a filter that allows only water to pass therethrough, and an air discharge opening is provided above the water discharge opening. In addition, for example, a circular resource recovery pipe having a resource recovery opening for collecting or mining resources at the lower end of the other end and a resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening, and an upper end of one end of the circular resource recovery pipe is held. A floating structure having a holding member to be mounted and a detachable water tank for storing water discharged from the water discharge opening; and a circular structure for penetrating through the inside of the circular resource collection pipe. A circular internal penetrating member having a specific gravity smaller than water and having a central opening for closing the water discharge opening when the water surface is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe; and a resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery pipe. A floating body on a water surface provided with a flexible riser pipe connected to a flexible wire and a reel for winding a metal wire or the like; and a floating body on the water surface connected to the other end of the flexible riser pipe. A flexible housing for collection, which is movable three-dimensionally including up and down and has an opening below, a natural energy power generation means such as wind power generation, and the circular resource collection pipe connected to the air discharge opening. Air exhaust means for exhausting the air above the circular inner penetration member by the natural energy power generation means, imaging means and light emitting means provided in the recovery flexible housing; and Output of imaging means Display means for displaying the position of the flexible housing for recovery by means of the floating body on the surface of the water, detecting the resources in the flexible housing for recovery by the display means, and detecting the circular shape by the air exhaust means. By evacuating air above the circular inner penetration member in the resource recovery pipe, the water surface in the circular resource recovery pipe is moved above the water surface outside the circular resource recovery pipe, and the circular internal penetration member is It is moved to the upper part in the circular resource recovery pipe, and seawater, lake water, or river water is discharged out of the circular resource recovery pipe from the water discharge opening to be stored in the water storage tank and the circular resource recovery pipe. By gradually moving seawater, lake water, or river water upward and circulating, resources in the recovery flexible housing are inserted from the resource recovery opening through the flexible riser pipe. After being collected or mined in the circular resource recovery pipe, the resource recovery opening is closed by the resource opening closing means to capture the resource, and the resource recovery opening of the circular resource recovery pipe is placed on the sea surface, lake surface or river surface. The method is characterized in that the resource is moved to the vicinity and the circular resource collection pipe is moved in a horizontal direction to collect the captured resources.
前記円形資源回収用管の一端の上部を保持する海上又は湖上或いは川上の浮体構造物を 備え、前記円形資源回収用管の他端の資源回収開口に接続された可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ラ イザー管と、前記可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管の他端に接続され水面上の浮体から 金属線等を介して上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた回収用柔軟性筺体を 前記浮体により移動すれば、海中又は湖中或いは川中の採取場所或いは海底又は湖底或い は川底の採取場所又は採掘場所を変更することが可能である。 前記円形資源回収用管は水排出用開口の下部に水のみを通過させるフィルターを備えているので前記水排出用開口から排出される水を直接海上又は湖上或いは川上に排出しても良 い。 前記回収用柔軟性筺体内に撮像手段及び発光手段を内蔵し、海上又は湖上或いは川上の前 記浮体構造物の上端部に前記撮像手段の出力を表示する表示手段を備え、水面上の前記浮体 から金属線等を介して上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた前記回収用柔軟 性筺体を移動すれば、海中又は湖中或いは川中の採取場所或いは海底又は湖底或いは川底 の採取場所又は採掘場所の資源の状況を前記表示手段により表示することが可能となる。 前記円形資源回収用管を海中、湖中、川中或いは海底、湖底、川底まで敷設する前には、 前記円形資源回収用管の下部にくさりを繋ぐと共に海水又は湖水或いは川水を充填した状 態で前記円形資源回収用管下部を海中、湖中、川中或いは海底、湖底、川底まで敷設する 。 深さが深い海底又は湖底の場合、前記円形資源回収用管の一実施例は例えば１０キロメー トルの長さで長さが調節可能で下部にいくほど内外径が小さな何重にも重なる円形資源回 収用管で構成し、敷設する前に海上或いは湖上から海底或いは湖底の深さを計測し、何重 にも重なる前記円形資源回収用管を海底或いは湖底の計測された長さにすると共に前記円 形資源回収用管内に海水又は湖水を充填した状態で前記円形資源回収用管下部の前記くさ りを介して海底或いは湖底まで敷設する。その場合例えば１０キロメートルの長さ の前記円形資源回収用管に可撓性ライザー管を介して前記回収用柔軟性筺体が接続される 。なお、前記円形資源回収用管を例えば１キロメートルとし、残りの９キロメートルを可 撓性ライザー管とし前記可撓性ライザー管を介して前記回収用柔軟性筺体が接続される実 施形態も実施可能である。 A flexible collection tube or flexible comprising a floating structure on the sea, lake, or river that holds the upper end of one end of the circular resource collection tube, and connected to a resource collection opening at the other end of the circular resource collection tube. A flexible riser tube, and a lower opening that is connected to the other end of the flexible recovery tube or the flexible riser tube and that can move three-dimensionally including up and down from a floating body on the water surface via a metal wire or the like and has an opening below. If the flexible recovery housing is moved by the floating body, it is possible to change the sampling location in the sea, in the lake, or in the river, or the sampling location or the mining location in the sea floor, the lake bottom, or the river bottom. Since the circular resource collection pipe is provided with a filter that allows only water to pass under the water discharge opening, the water discharged from the water discharge opening may be discharged directly to the sea, a lake, or a river. A display means for displaying an output of the imaging means at an upper end of the floating body structure on the sea, on a lake, or on a river; By moving the flexible recovery housing that is movable three-dimensionally, including up and down, through a metal wire, etc., and that has an opening at the bottom, a collection location in the sea, in a lake, or in a river, or in the sea floor, lake bottom, or river bottom It is possible to display the status of the resource at the place or the mining place by the display means. Before laying the circular resource collection pipe in the sea, in the lake, in the river, or on the seabed, lake bottom, or river bottom, a state is established in which a hollow is connected to the lower part of the circular resource collection pipe and the tank is filled with seawater, lake water, or river water. Then, the lower part of the circular resource recovery pipe is laid in the sea, in the lake, in the river, or on the sea floor, the lake bottom, and the river bottom. In the case of a deep seabed or lake bottom, one embodiment of the circular resource collection pipe is a circular resource having a length of, for example, 10 km, which is adjustable in length and whose inner and outer diameters are smaller toward the bottom, and which are superimposed on multiple layers. It consists of collecting pipes, measures the depth of the sea floor or lake bottom from the sea or lake before laying, and makes the overlapping circular resource collecting pipes the measured length of the sea bottom or lake bottom, and Seawater or lake water is filled in the circular resource collection pipe and laid to the seabed or lake bottom via the hole below the circular resource collection pipe. In this case, for example, the recovery flexible housing is connected to the circular resource recovery pipe having a length of 10 km via a flexible riser pipe. In addition, an embodiment in which the circular resource collection pipe is, for example, 1 km, the remaining 9 km is a flexible riser pipe, and the flexible recovery casing is connected via the flexible riser pipe can also be implemented. It is.
また深さが深い海底又は湖底の場合、前記円形資源回収用管の他の実施例は例えば１０ キロメートルの長さで長さが調節可能で下部にいくほど内外径が小さな何重にも重なる円 形資源回収用管と中心部を長さが調節可能で下部にいくほど内外径が小さな何重にも重な る軸で構成し、何重にも重なる前記軸により何重にも重なる前記円形資源回収用管の下部 を海底又は湖底に到達させ海底又は湖底或いは川底まで敷設する。 第一及び第二の実施形態では、前記円形資源回収用管内の水面を前記円形資源回収用管外 の水面より上部に移動させる水の容量は前記水排出用開口より排出する水の容量より比較 的大きくなるべく円形資源回収用管上部の内外形を大きくする。なお、中央開口を具備す る前記円形内部貫通部材の移動を制限するストッパを前記円形資源回収用管内に具備し、 前記水排出用開口より排出する水量を制限する。前記円形資源回収用管中間部の内外径は 上部と同じ内外径或いは徐々に小さな内外径にし、前記円形資源回収用管最下部の前記資 源回収開口の内外径を生物資源或いは鉱物団塊が通過可能な程度に小さくする。小さくす ると循環する水流を早めることが可能となり採取或いは採掘の効率がよい。なお、前記回 収用柔軟性筺体の下部以外は密閉して内蔵され採取或いは採掘の際、環境に影響を与えな いよう配慮されている。 前記回収用柔軟性筺体の最下部を広い面積で前記可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管を 介して接続された前記円形資源回収用管の内径を生物資源或いは鉱物団塊が通過可能な程 度に小さく水流の循環を早める開口に構成すれば前記回収用柔軟性筺体の最下部での採取 或いは採掘の面積を広くすることは可能である。 小さくした内外径の前記資源回収開口の直上部に前記資源回収開口を閉鎖する閉鎖手段を 備え、採取或いは採掘した資源を捕獲する構成にする。 海上又は湖上或いは川上の前記浮体構造物は例えば風力、太陽光、波力等自然エネルギー の発電手段と蓄電手段を具備しその電力により移動する構成にすることも可能である。 前記可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ライザー管の他端に接続され水面上の前記浮体から金属線等 を介して上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた前記回収用柔軟性筺体内に資 源を掘削或いは粉砕するため外部操作部材により例えば電気的に操作される資源掘削手段 或いは資源粉』砕手段を具備していれば資源を容易に採掘できる。したがって、掘削或いは 粉砕された切りは前記回収用柔軟性筺体で密封され、内外径の小さい前記資源回収開口により循環する早い水流で採掘の効率がよく採掘されるので周辺環境に影響を与えること はない。 なお、前記円形資源回収用管の中間部をフレキシブルな管にする実施例、前記円形資源回収用管を 何重にも重なり下部にいくほど内外径が小さな管で長さを調節する実施例、前記円形資源回収 用管を下部にいくほど内外径が小さな長さを調節する蛇腹管の実施例が実施可能である。 その場合、前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の前記資源掘削手段或いは資源粉砕手段は前記外部操 作部材により操作され、掘削或いは粉砕された資源等が前記可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ラ イザー管を介して前記円形資源回収用管内に採掘され前記円形資源回収用管の前記水排出用開口か ら排出される水が着脱可能な貯水槽により貯水されるので周辺環境に影響を与えない。 水面上の前記浮体から金属線等を介して上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた 前記回収用柔軟性筺体内で前記資源掘削手段を例えば電気的に移動する構成にして例えば 比較的浅い海域の海山の頂部から斜面にある特にコバルトの含有量の高いコバルトリッチ クラフトを掘削し、前記可撓性ライザー管を介して前記円形資源回収用管の下面部に前記 コバルトリッチクラフトの無機物資源を沈殿する構成となる。深海底でのダイヤモンドの 採取或いはメタンハイドレートの有機物資源やレアアース泥、海水熱水鉱床等の無機物資 源を採掘する際にも、前記可撓性ライザー管を介して前記円形資源回収用管の下面部に前 記資源を沈殿する構成となる。メタンハイドレートの有機物資源を採掘する際、前記円形 資源回収用管の下面部に電気冷却装置を具備する構成も実施可能である。 また、メタンハイドレートの有機物資源が気化した場合、前記円形内部貫通部材の中央開 口を介して気化されたメタンハイドレートは回収される。 前記空気排気手段は前記円形内部貫通部材の上部の空気を例えば風力、太陽光、波力等自然エ ネルギーの電力等により排気する。 前記円形資源回収用管内の水面を前記円形資源回収用管外の水面より上部に移動させる水 の容量は前記水排出用開口より排出する水の容量より比較的大きくなるように円形資源回 収用管の上部の内外形にすれば前記水排出用開口より空気が挿入することはない。また仮 に空気が挿入されても円形内部貫通部材は中央開口を具備しているので、前記内部貫通部 材を前記円形資源回収用管内の上部に移動する際、前記円形資源回収用管内の海面又は湖 面或いは川面と前記内部貫通部材の下面とを介在する前記水排出用開口から挿入された空 気を前記中央開口により吸引することが可能である。なお、前記水排出用開口より排出さ れる水に資源が混入している場合前記資源は前記貯水槽から回収される。 前記資源回収用管は外径が円形実施例で説明したが、正方形等任意の形状が可能である。 Further, in the case of a deep seabed or a lake bottom, another embodiment of the circular resource recovery pipe is a circle having a length of, for example, 10 km, an adjustable length, and an inner / outer diameter which is smaller toward the bottom and overlaps multiple layers. The resource recovery tube and the central part are composed of axes that can be adjusted in length and that have smaller inner and outer diameters as they go to the bottom. The lower part of the resource recovery pipe will reach the seabed or lake bottom and be laid to the seabed, lake bottom or riverbed. In the first and second embodiments, the volume of water for moving the water surface inside the circular resource collection pipe to a level higher than the water surface outside the circular resource collection pipe is compared with the volume of water discharged from the water discharge opening. Enlarge the inner shape of the upper part of the circular resource recovery pipe as much as possible. In addition, a stopper for restricting the movement of the circular inner penetrating member having a central opening is provided in the circular resource collection pipe, and the amount of water discharged from the water discharge opening is restricted. The inner and outer diameters of the intermediate portion of the circular resource collection pipe are the same as the upper part or the inner and outer diameters are gradually reduced, and biological resources or mineral aggregates pass through the inner and outer diameters of the resource recovery opening at the bottom of the circular resource recovery pipe. Make it as small as possible. The smaller the size, the faster the circulating water flow and the more efficient sampling or mining. Except for the lower part of the flexible housing for collection, it is hermetically sealed so that it does not affect the environment during sampling or mining. The lowermost part of the flexible housing for recovery has a large area so that a biological resource or a mineral nodule can pass through the inner diameter of the circular resource recovery tube connected via the flexible recovery tube or the flexible riser tube. If the opening is designed to be small enough to accelerate the circulation of the water flow, it is possible to increase the area of sampling or mining at the bottom of the flexible housing for recovery. Immediately above the resource recovery opening having a reduced inner and outer diameter, a closing means for closing the resource recovery opening is provided to capture the collected or mined resources. The floating structure on the sea, on the lake, or on the river may be configured to include a power generation means and a power storage means for natural energy such as wind power, solar power, and wave power, and to be moved by the electric power. The recovery flexibility, which is connected to the other end of the flexible recovery pipe or the flexible riser pipe, is movable in three dimensions including up and down from the floating body on the water surface via a metal wire or the like, and has an opening below. Resources can be easily mined if the housing is equipped with, for example, a resource digging means or a resource powder crushing means which is electrically operated by an external operating member to dig or crush resources. Therefore, the excavated or crushed cut is sealed with the flexible housing for recovery, and the mining is efficiently performed by the fast water flow circulating through the resource recovery opening having a small inner and outer diameter, so that the surrounding environment is not affected. Absent. In addition, an embodiment in which the intermediate portion of the circular resource collection tube is a flexible tube, an embodiment in which the circular resource collection tube overlaps many times and the length is adjusted by a tube having a smaller inner and outer diameter toward the bottom, An embodiment of a bellows tube in which the inner and outer diameters are adjusted to a smaller length as the circular resource collection tube is moved downward is feasible. In this case, the resource excavating means or the resource crushing means in the flexible housing for recovery is operated by the external operating member, and the excavated or crushed resources and the like are collected by the flexible collection pipe or the flexible riser pipe. The water discharged from the water discharge opening of the circular resource recovery pipe through the water is collected by the detachable water storage tank, and does not affect the surrounding environment. A configuration in which the resource excavating means is electrically moved, for example, within the flexible housing for recovery, which is movable three-dimensionally including up and down from the floating body on the water surface via a metal wire or the like and has an opening below, for example, A cobalt-rich craft having a particularly high cobalt content is excavated on a slope from the top of a seamount in a relatively shallow sea area, and the cobalt-rich craft is placed on the lower surface of the circular resource recovery pipe through the flexible riser pipe. It is configured to precipitate inorganic resources. When collecting diamonds on the deep sea floor or mining organic resources such as methane hydrate, rare earth mud, and mineral resources such as seawater hydrothermal deposits, the circular resource recovery pipe is connected to the flexible riser pipe. The above resources will be deposited on the lower surface. When mining organic resources of methane hydrate, a configuration in which an electric cooling device is provided on the lower surface of the circular resource recovery pipe may be implemented. When the organic resources of methane hydrate are vaporized, the vaporized methane hydrate is recovered through the central opening of the circular inner penetrating member. The air exhaust means exhausts the air above the circular inner penetrating member by using natural energy such as wind power, sunlight, and wave power. The circular resource collection pipe is designed so that the volume of water for moving the water surface inside the circular resource collection pipe above the water surface outside the circular resource collection pipe is relatively larger than the volume of water discharged from the water discharge opening. If the inside outer shape of the upper part is set, no air is inserted from the water discharge opening. Even if air is inserted, the circular inner penetrating member has a central opening, so that when the inner penetrating member is moved to the upper part in the circular resource collecting pipe, the sea surface in the circular resource collecting pipe is moved. Alternatively, air inserted from the water discharge opening interposed between the lake or river surface and the lower surface of the internal penetrating member can be sucked by the central opening. When resources discharged from the water discharge opening are mixed with the resources, the resources are recovered from the water storage tank. Although the outer diameter of the resource collection tube has been described in the embodiment of the circular shape, any shape such as a square shape is possible.
前記円形資源回収用管は前記水排出用開口の真下に鍔を具備し、海面又は湖面或いは川 面の例えば環状浮体構造物の円形の穴を貫通して前記環状浮体構造物に保持される構成も 可能である。また前記円形資源回収用管は資源回収開口を具備し長さが調節可能な下部資 源回収用管と、海面又は湖面或いは川面の水面上下部の水排出用開口を具備する上部資源 回収用管の二体構成にして前記円形資源回収用管を敷設時に結合する構成も可能である。 前記資源回収用管は可撓性ライザー管を介して前記回収用柔軟性筺体が接続される 。又、前記環状浮体部材を例えば自然エネルギーの電力等で移動する構成も実施可能である 。 The circular resource recovery pipe has a flange immediately below the water discharge opening, and is held by the annular floating structure through a circular hole of, for example, an annular floating structure on a sea surface, a lake surface, or a river surface. It is also possible. The said circular resource recovery pipe and resource recovery opening provided with adjustable length of the lower resource recovery pipe, sea or lake or river top resource recovery pipe having a water discharge opening of the water surface the upper and lower portions of the It is also possible to adopt a two-body configuration in which the circular resource recovery pipes are connected when they are laid. The resource recovery pipe is connected to the recovery flexible housing via a flexible riser pipe. Further, a configuration in which the annular floating member is moved by, for example, natural energy power or the like is also feasible.
採取或いは採掘した前記資源の回収は前記空気排出開口と蛇腹管を介して資源回収船と 接続し前記くさりを介して前記円形資源回収用管内に空気と採取或いは採掘した資源及び 海水又は湖水を充填した状態で前記円形資源回収用管を海上又は湖上或いは川上に浮かべ た後、前記円形資源回収用管を海面又は湖面或いは川面を水平方向に移動させると共に前 記円形資源回収用管を移送地に移送して資源を回収する。 海底又は湖底が深い場合、前記円形資源回収用管の下部にくさりを繋げば海中又は湖中の 前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源が前記可撓性回収管を介して前記円形資源回収用管内に採 取し或いは海底又は湖底近傍の前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源が前記可撓性ライザー管を 介して前記円形資源回収用管内に採取或いは採掘し、前記資源回収開口を閉鎖して前記円形資源回収用管の下部の資源を前記円形資源回収用管内に捕獲した後、前記空気排出口に 前記空気排出開口に前記円形資源回収用管とほぼ同じ体積の蛇腹管を具備する容器を接続 し又は前記空気排出開口と蛇腹管を介して資源回収船と接続し前記円形資源回収用管内に 空気と採取或いは採掘した前記資源及び海水又は湖水を充填した状態で前記くさりを介し て前記円形資源回収用管を海上或いは湖上に浮かべた後、前記円形資源回収用管が海面又 は湖面上に水平方向に移動させ前記円形資源回収用管と前記容器を移送地に移送して資源 を回収できる。 長さが調節可能で下部にいくほど内外径が小さな何重にも重なる管を具備する前記資源回 収用管は再び何重にも重なる状態にした後資源を回収する。また、長さが調節可能で下部 にいくほど内外径が小さな蛇腹管で構成する前記資源回収用管は再び短い状態にした後資 源を回収する。 To collect the collected or mined resources, connect to the resource collection vessel through the air discharge opening and the bellows pipe, and fill the circular resource collection pipe with air and the collected or mined resources and seawater or lake water through the bore. In this state, the circular resource recovery pipe is floated on the sea, lake, or river, and then the circular resource recovery pipe is moved horizontally on the sea surface, lake surface, or river surface, and the circular resource recovery pipe is moved to a transfer destination. Transfer and collect resources. When the bottom of the sea or lake is deep, if a hollow is connected to the lower part of the circular resource recovery pipe, the resources in the flexible housing for recovery in the sea or in the lake will pass through the flexible recovery pipe in the circular resource recovery pipe. The resources in the flexible housing for recovery near the sea floor or the bottom of the lake are collected or mined in the circular resource recovery pipe through the flexible riser pipe, and the resource recovery opening is closed to close the resource recovery opening. After capturing the resources at the lower part of the circular resource collection tube in the circular resource collection tube, a container having a bellows tube having substantially the same volume as the circular resource collection tube is connected to the air discharge opening at the air discharge opening. The circular resource is connected to a resource recovery vessel through the air discharge opening and the bellows pipe, and the circular resource is collected through the circular resource recovery pipe and the circular resource is filled with the resource and seawater or lake water through the borehole. Collection tube After floating on the sea or lake, the circular resource collection tube is moved horizontally on the sea surface or lake surface, and the circular resource collection tube and the container are transferred to a transfer place to collect resources. The resource collecting pipe having a multi-layered pipe whose length is adjustable and whose inner and outer diameters are smaller toward the lower part is collected again after the pipe is again multi-layered. In addition, the resource recovery tube, which is formed of a bellows tube whose length is adjustable and whose inner and outer diameters are smaller toward the lower portion, is again shortened and then recovers resources.
本発明による資源回収方法の第一の実施形態は、浮体構造物から空気排出開口と水面上 の下部の水排出用開口を一端の上部に具備すると共に他端の下部に資源回収開口を具備す る例えば円形資源回収用管を海中又は湖中或いは海底又は湖底或いは川底まで敷設する第 １のステップと、前記円形資源回収用管の内部を貫通し内部の水面が前記資源回収用管外 の水面と同じの際前記水排出用開口を閉鎖する比重が水より小さな円形内部貫通部材の上 部の空気を排気することにより前記円形資源回収用管内の水面を前記円形資源回収用管外 の水面より上部に移動させて前記円形内部貫通部材を前記円形資源回収用管内の上部に移 動させ前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水或いは川水を前記円形資源回収用管の外の貯水 槽に放出して前記円形資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水或いは川水を徐々に上部に移動させ て循環することにより前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源が前記可撓性回収管或いは可撓性ラ イザー管を介して海中又は湖中或いは川中、或いは海底又は湖底或いは川底近傍の資源を 前記資源回収開口より前記資源回収用管内に採取され或いは採掘されて前記資源回収用管 の下部の生物資源又は植物資源或いは沈殿した有機物資源或いは無機物資源を前記資源回 収用管内に捕獲する第２のステップよりなる。前記資源を捕獲した前記円形資源回収用管 を移送地に移送する第３のステップよりなる。 A first embodiment of the resource recovery method according to the present invention comprises an air discharge opening from a floating structure and a water discharge opening at a lower portion above the water surface at one upper portion and a resource recovery opening at a lower portion at the other end. For example, a first step of laying a circular resource collection pipe underwater or in a lake, or on the sea floor, lake bottom or riverbed, and a water surface penetrating through the inside of the circular resource collection pipe so that the inside water surface is outside the resource collection pipe At the same time, the water surface inside the circular resource recovery pipe is raised from the water surface outside the circular resource recovery pipe by exhausting air above the circular internal penetrating member having a specific gravity smaller than water to close the water discharge opening. It is moved to the upper part to move the circular inner penetrating member to the upper part in the circular resource recovery pipe, and discharges seawater, lake water or river water from the water discharge opening into a water tank outside the circular resource recovery pipe. The circular capital By gradually moving seawater, lake water, or river water in the collection pipe to the upper part and circulating it, the resources in the flexible housing for collection are transferred to the sea or through the flexible collection pipe or flexible riser pipe. Resources in the lake or in the river, or on the sea floor or in the lake or in the vicinity of the river bottom are collected or mined from the resource recovery opening into the resource recovery pipe, and biological or plant resources or precipitated organic resources below the resource recovery pipe Alternatively, the method comprises a second step of capturing inorganic resources in the resource recovery pipe. The method comprises a third step of transferring the circular resource collection pipe having captured the resources to a transfer destination.
本発明による資源回収方法の第二の実施形態は、浮体構造物から空気排出開口と水面上 の下部の水排出用開口とその下部に水のみを通過させるフィルターと前記水排出用開口の 上部に具備すると共に他端の下部に資源回収開口を具備する例えば円形資源回収用管を海 中又は湖中或いは海底又は湖底まで敷設する第１のステップと、前記円形資源回収用管の 内部を貫通し内部の水面が前記資源回収用管外の水面と同じの際前記水排出用開口を閉鎖 する比重が水より小さな円形内部貫通部材の上部の空気を排気することにより前記円形資 源回収用管内の水面を前記円形資源回収用管外の水面より上部に移動させて前記円形内部 貫通部材を前記円形資源回収用管内の上部に移動させ前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水 を前記円形資源回収用管の外の貯水槽に放出して前記円形資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水 を徐々に上部に移動させて循環することにより海中又は湖中、或いは海底又は湖底近傍の 前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源が可撓性回収管或いは前記可撓性ライザー管を介して前記 資源回収開口より前記資源回収用管内に採取され或いは採掘されて前記資源回収用管の下 部の生物資源又は植物資源或いは沈殿した有機物資源或いは無機物資源を前記資源回収用 管内に捕獲する第２のステップと、前記空気排出開口に前記円形資源回収用管とほぼ同じ 体積の蛇腹管を具備する容器に接続し或いは前記空気排出開口と蛇腹管を介して資源回収 船と接続し前記円形資源回収用管内に空気と採取或いは採掘した資源及び海水又は湖水を 充填した状態で前記くさりを介して前記円形資源回収用管を水平状態で蛇腹管を具備する 前記容器とともに海上或いは湖上に浮かべる第３のステップと、前記資源を捕獲した前記 円形資源回収用管を移送地に移送する第４のステップよりなる。 A second embodiment of the resource recovery method according to the present invention is a method of recovering an air from a floating structure, an air discharge opening, a lower water discharge opening above the water surface, a filter that allows only water to pass therethrough, and A first step of laying, for example, a circular resource recovery pipe having a resource recovery opening at the lower end of the other end in the sea or in a lake or to the sea floor or a lake bottom; When the internal water surface is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe, the air above the circular internal penetrating member having a specific gravity smaller than water to close the water discharge opening is exhausted, so that the inside of the circular resource recovery pipe is discharged. The water surface is moved above the water surface outside the circular resource collection pipe, the circular inner penetrating member is moved to the upper part inside the circular resource collection pipe, and the seawater or lake water is supplied from the water discharge opening to the circular resource collection pipe. The resources in the flexible housing for recovery in the sea or in the lake, or at the bottom of the sea or near the bottom of the lake, are discharged to the outside water storage tank and gradually move the seawater or lake water in the circular resource collection pipe upward and circulate. Is collected or mined from the resource recovery opening through the flexible recovery pipe or the flexible riser pipe into the resource recovery pipe, and the biological resources or plant resources or sediment at the lower part of the resource recovery pipe are collected. A second step of capturing an organic resource or an inorganic resource in the resource recovery pipe; and connecting the air discharge opening to a container having a bellows pipe having substantially the same volume as the circular resource recovery pipe or the air discharge opening. The circular resource is connected to the vessel through a bellows pipe and connected to the vessel, and the circular resource is collected and mined and the seawater or lake water is filled in the pipe for collecting the circular resource. A third step of floated on the sea or lake together with the container having a bellows tube acquisition tube in a horizontal state, consisting of a fourth step of transferring the transfer locations the circular resource recovery pipe that captured the resource.
資源回収開口を具備し長さが調節可能な下部資源回収用管と、空気排出開口と水排出用 開口と前記水排出用開口の真下に鍔を具備する上部資源回収用管の二体構成の円形資源回収用管で構成する場合、前記第１のステップは、前記下部資源回収用管の長さを調節して 前記資源回収開口を海中又は湖中或いは川中、或いは海底又は湖底或いは川底近傍に敷設 するステップと、前記浮体構造物から前記上部資源回収用管を敷設し前記下部資源回収用 管と結合するステップよりなる。 It has a two-body structure comprising a lower resource recovery pipe having a resource recovery opening and adjustable in length, and an upper resource recovery pipe having an air discharge opening, a water discharge opening, and a flange immediately below the water discharge opening. When configured with a circular resource recovery pipe, the first step is to adjust the length of the lower resource recovery pipe to place the resource recovery opening in the sea or in a lake or in a river, or in the sea floor or in a lake bottom or in the vicinity of a river bottom. Laying, and laying the upper resource recovery pipe from the floating structure and coupling to the lower resource recovery pipe.
本発明による海中資源或いは海底資源等の水中資源回収装置の第三の実施形態は、例え ばコバルト団塊等鉱物団塊を採掘する実施形態で、一端の上部に水面上下部の水排出用 開口とその下部に水のみを通過させるフィルターと前記水排出用開口の上部に空気排出開 口具備すると共に他端の下部に海底又は湖底或いは川底近傍の前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の 資源が前記可撓性ライザー管を介して採取される資源回収開口と前記資源回収開口を閉鎖 する資源開口閉鎖手段を具備する例えば円形資源回収用管が大きな内外径有し空気排 出開口と水面上下部の水排出用開口を一端の上部に具備すると共に他端の下部は内外径を 小さくして団塊を効率良く採掘する資源回収開口と前記資源回収開口を閉鎖する資源 開口閉鎖手段を具備し、前記資源回収用管一端の上部を保持する保持部材と前記水排出用 開口から排出される水を貯水する着脱可能な貯水槽を具備する浮体構造物と、前記資源回 収用管上部の内部を貫通し前記内部の水面が前記資源回収用管外の水面と同じの際前記水 排出用開口を閉鎖する比重が例えば水より小さな内部貫通部材と、前記浮体構造物とは別 設の金属線等を巻くリールを具備する水面上の浮体と、前記資源回収用管の他端の資源回収 開口に接続された可撓性ライザー官と、前記可撓性ライザー官の他端に接続され水面上の前 記浮体から金属線等を介して上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた回収用柔 軟性筺体と、風力発電等自然エネルギー発電手段と、前記空気排出開口と接続され前記円 形資源回収用管内で前記円形内部貫通部材の上部の空気を前記自然エネルギー発電手段に より排気する空気排気手段と、前記回収用柔軟性筺体内に具備された撮像手段及び発光手 段及び前記浮体構造物の上端部に具備され前記撮像手段の出力を表示する表示手段を備え 、前記可撓性ライザー官の他端に接続され水面上の前記浮体から金属線等を介して上下を含 む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた回収用柔軟性筺体を移動すると共に前記表示手 段により前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源を検出し前記空気排気手段により前記資源回収用 管内の前記内部貫通部材の上部の空気を排気することにより前記資源回収用管内の水面を 前記資源回収用管外の水面より上部に移動させて前記内部貫通部材を前記資源回収用管内 の上部に移動させ前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水或いは川水を前記資源回収用管の外 に放出して前記資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水或いは川水を徐々に上部に移動させて循環 することにより検出した前記資源を効率良く前記可撓性ライザー官を介して前記資源回収 開口より挿入し前記資源開口閉鎖手段により前記資源回収開口を閉鎖して前記資源を捕獲 すると共に前記資源回収用管の前記資源回収開口を海面又は湖面或いは川面近傍に移動し た前記資源回収用管を水平方向に移動して捕獲した前記資源を回収することを特徴とする 。
なお、前記水排出用開口より排出される水に資源が混入している場合前記資源は前記貯水 槽から回収される。 自然エネルギーの発電手段と蓄電手段を具備しその電力により前記浮体構造物は移動可能 な構成にする。 海底又は湖底或いは川底近傍の前記回収用柔軟性筺体内に海底又は湖底或いは川底の鉱物 団塊を粉砕する例えば電気的に駆動される資源粉砕手段を具備し、小さな内外径の前記資 源回収開口を鉱物団塊が貫通する大きさに粉砕する。また、資源粉砕手段及び資源回収開 口は貫通する開口を介して回収用柔軟性筺体内に下部以外は密閉して内蔵されているので 、粉砕された切りは前記筺体内で密封され内外径の小さい前記資源回収開口により循環 する早い水流で採掘の効率がよく採掘されるので周辺環境に影響を与えることはない。 小さくした前記内外径の直上部に前記資源回収開口を閉鎖する資源 開口閉鎖手段を備え、採取或い は採掘した資源を捕獲する構成にする。 前記資源回収用管は何重にも重なり下部にいくほど内外径が小さな管で構成して長さを調 節することが可能である。また、前記資源回収用管は下部にいくほど内外径が小さな蛇腹管で構成し長さを調節することが可能である。長さが調節可能で下部にいくほど内外径が 小さな何重にも重なる管を具備する前記資源回収用管を再び何重にも重なる状態にして資 源を回収することも可能ある。また、長さが調節可能で下部にいくほど内外径が小さな蛇 腹管で構成する前記資源回収用管を再び短い状態にして資源を回収する。その場合例えば １０キロメートルの長さで長さの前記円形資源回収用管に可撓性ライザー官を介して前記 回収用柔軟性筺体が接続される。なお、前記円形資源回収用管を例えば１キロメートルと し、残りの９キロメートルを可撓性ライザー官とし前記可撓性ライザー官を介して前記回 収用柔軟性筺体が接続される実施形態も実施可能である。
The third embodiment of the apparatus for recovering underwater resources such as undersea resources or seabed resources according to the present invention is an embodiment for mining mineral nodules such as cobalt nodules, for example. A filter that allows only water to pass through the lower part and an air discharge opening above the water discharge opening are provided, and the resources in the flexible housing for recovery near the seabed, lake bottom or riverbed are provided below the other end. For example, a circular resource recovery pipe having a large inner and outer diameter and having an air discharge opening and a water discharge at the upper and lower portions of the water surface is provided with a resource recovery opening collected via a riser pipe and a resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening. An opening is provided at an upper portion of one end, and a lower portion of the other end is provided with a resource recovery opening for reducing the inner and outer diameters and efficiently mining a baby boomer, and a resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening. A floating structure including a holding member for holding an upper portion of one end of the water pipe and a detachable water storage tank for storing water discharged from the water discharging opening; When the water surface is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe, an internal penetrating member having a specific gravity smaller than, for example, water for closing the water discharge opening, and a reel for winding a metal wire or the like provided separately from the floating structure are provided. A floating body on the water surface, a flexible riser officer connected to the resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery pipe, and a floating body above the water surface connected to the other end of the flexible riser officer. A flexible housing for recovery that is movable three-dimensionally including up and down through a metal wire and has an opening below, a natural energy power generation means such as wind power generation, and the circular resource recovery means connected to the air discharge opening. Air above the circular internal penetrating member in the pipe Air exhaust means for exhausting by the natural energy power generating means, an imaging means and a light emitting means provided in the flexible housing for recovery, and an output of the imaging means provided at an upper end of the floating structure. A flexible housing for collection comprising display means, connected to the other end of the flexible riser officer, movable from the floating body on the water surface in three dimensions including up and down via a metal wire or the like, and provided with an opening below. And the display means detects resources in the recovery flexible housing, and exhausts air above the internal penetrating member in the resource recovery pipe by the air exhaust means. The water surface is moved above the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe, the internal penetrating member is moved to the upper part inside the resource recovery pipe, and seawater, lake water, or river water is discharged from the water discharge opening to the resource recovery pipe. The resources detected by discharging the water out of the collection pipe and gradually moving the seawater, lake water or river water in the resource recovery pipe to the upper part and circulating the same are efficiently transferred to the resource through the flexible riser officer. The resource recovery opening which is inserted through the recovery opening, closes the resource recovery opening by the resource opening closing means to capture the resource, and moves the resource recovery opening of the resource recovery pipe to a sea surface, a lake surface or a river surface vicinity. The tube is moved in a horizontal direction to collect the captured resources.
When resources are mixed in the water discharged from the water discharge opening, the resources are collected from the water storage tank. The floating structure is configured to be movable by natural power generation means and power storage means. The apparatus further comprises, for example, electrically driven resource crushing means for crushing mineral aggregates on the seabed, lake bottom, or river bottom in the flexible housing for recovery near the sea bottom, lake bottom, or river bottom, and the resource recovery opening having a small inner and outer diameter is provided. Grind to a size that allows the mineral nodules to penetrate. Also, since the resource crushing means and the resource recovery opening are hermetically contained in the recovery flexible housing except for the lower portion through the opening that penetrates, the crushed cut is sealed in the housing and has an inner and outer diameter. The small resource recovery opening allows efficient mining with the fast circulating water current and does not affect the surrounding environment. Immediately above the reduced inner and outer diameters, a resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening is provided to capture the collected or mined resources. It is possible to adjust the length of the resource recovery pipe by forming a pipe with a smaller inner and outer diameter as it overlaps and goes down. Further, the resource recovery pipe may be formed of a bellows pipe having a smaller inner and outer diameter as it goes down, and its length may be adjusted. It is also possible to collect the resources again by making the resource collection tube having a multi-layered tube whose length is adjustable and whose inner and outer diameters are smaller toward the bottom lower. In addition, the resource recovery tube, which is formed of a bellows tube whose length is adjustable and whose inner and outer diameters are smaller toward the bottom, is again shortened to collect resources. In this case, for example, the recovery flexible housing is connected to the circular resource recovery tube having a length of 10 km through a flexible riser. It is to be noted that an embodiment in which the circular resource collection pipe is, for example, 1 km, and the remaining 9 km is a flexible riser officer, and the flexible recovery casing is connected via the flexible riser officer is also feasible. It is.
本発明による資源回収方法の第二の実施形態は鉱物団塊資源回収方法で大きな内外径有 し水面上下部の水排出用開口とその下部に水のみを通過させるフィルターと前記水排出用 開口のその上部に空気排出開口を一端の上部に具備すると共に他端の下部に海底又は湖底 或いは川底近傍の下部には内外径を小さくして団塊を効率良く採掘する資源回収開口を具 備する円形資源回収用管の一端の上部を保持する海上又は湖上或いは川上の浮体構造物か ら海底又は湖底或いは川底まで前記円形資源回収用管を敷設する第１のステップと、前記 可撓性ライザー官の他端に接続され水面上の前記浮体から金属線等を介して上下を含む三次 元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた前記回収用柔軟性筺体を移動すると共に前記回収用柔 軟性筺体内に具備された前記撮像手段の出力を表示する表示手段の出力を前記浮体構造物 の上端部で観察して鉱物団塊を探索する第２のステップと、前記円形資源回収用管の内部 を貫通し内部の水面が前記資源回収用管外の水面と同じの際前記水排出用開口を閉鎖する 比重が水より小さな円形内部貫通部材の上部の空気を排気することにより前記円形内部貫 通部材を前記円形資源回収用管内の上部に移動させ前記円形資源回収用管内の水面を前記 円形資源回収用管外の水面より上部に移動させる第３のステップと、前記水排出用開口よ り海水又は湖水或いは川水を前記円形資源回収用管の外に放出して前記円形資源回収用管 内の海水又は湖水或いは川水を徐々に上部に移動させて循環することにより前記資源回収 開口より前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源を前記可撓性ライザー官を介して前記資源回収用 管内に採取し或いは採掘して前記資源回収用管内に捕獲する第４のステップと、前記空気 排出開口に前記円形資源回収用管とほぼ同じ体積の蛇腹管を具備する容器を接続し或いは 前記空気排出開口と蛇腹管を介して資源回収船と接続し前記円形資源回収用管内に空気と 採取或いは採掘した資源及び海水又は湖水を充填した状態で前記円形資源回収用管を水平 状態で海上或いは湖上に浮かべる第５のステップと、前記資源を捕獲した前記円形資源回 収用管を移送地に移送する第６のステップよりなる。 The second embodiment of the resource recovery method according to the present invention is a mineral nodule resource recovery method, which has a large inner and outer diameter, a water discharge opening at the upper and lower portions of the water surface, a filter that allows only water to pass therethrough, and a filter for the water discharge opening. Circular resource recovery with an air discharge opening at the top at one end and a resource recovery opening at the bottom of the other end near the seabed, lake bottom, or riverbed to reduce the inner and outer diameters and to efficiently extract baby boomers A first step of laying the circular resource collection pipe from a floating structure on the sea, lake, or river holding the upper end of one end of the pipe to the sea floor, lake bottom, or river bottom, and the other end of the flexible riser officer; Is connected to the floating body on the water surface and is movable in three dimensions including up and down via a metal wire or the like, and moves the flexible housing for recovery provided with an opening below and is provided in the flexible housing for recovery. A second step of observing the output of the display means for displaying the output of the imaging means at the upper end of the floating structure to search for a mineral nodule; and The water discharge opening is closed at the same level as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe.The air above the circular internal penetration member having a specific gravity smaller than that of water is exhausted to thereby allow the circular internal penetration member to recover the circular resource. A third step of moving the water surface inside the circular resource recovery pipe to a position higher than the water surface outside the circular resource recovery pipe by moving the water to the upper part of the pipe, and removing seawater, lake water or river water from the water discharge opening; The seawater, lake water, or river water in the circular resource recovery pipe is discharged to the outside of the circular resource recovery pipe and gradually moved upward to circulate therethrough, so that the water is recovered from the resource recovery opening into the flexible recovery casing. Said resources A fourth step of collecting or mining in the resource recovery pipe via the flexible riser officer and capturing the same in the resource recovery pipe; and a bellows having substantially the same volume as the circular resource recovery pipe in the air discharge opening. A container equipped with a pipe is connected or connected to a resource recovery vessel through the air discharge opening and the bellows pipe, and the circular resource recovery pipe is filled with air and collected or mined resources and seawater or lake water, and the circular shape is filled. A fifth step is to float the resource collection tube horizontally on a sea or lake, and a sixth step is to transfer the circular resource collection tube capturing the resources to a transfer destination.
本発明による海中資源或いは海底資源等の水中資源回収装置の第四の実施形態は深い海 底又は湖底近傍メタンハイドレート等の有機物資源又はレアメタル等の無機物資源を採掘 する伸縮可能な蛇腹を具備する実施形態で、空気排出開口と中央部近傍に水排出用開口と 片方側に被保持部を具備する中央管と一方の端部に前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源が前記 可撓性ライザー官を介して採取或いは採掘される資源回収開口と前記資源回収開口を閉鎖 する資源開口閉鎖手段を端部に具備し蛇腹により伸縮可能な片方蛇腹管ともう一方の端部 に蛇腹により伸縮可能な他方蛇腹管を備えた資源回収用管と、前記中央管の内部を貫通し 前記水排出用開口を閉鎖可能な比重が水より小さな内部貫通部材と、前記資源回収用管の 被保持部を保持する保持部材と前記水排出用開口から排出される水を貯水する着脱可能な 貯水槽を具備する浮体構造物と、前記資源回収用管の他端の資源回収開口に接続された可 撓性ライザー官と、前記浮体構造物とは別設の金属線等を巻くリールを具備する水面上の浮 体と、前記可撓性ライザー官の他端に接続され水面上の前記浮体から金属線等を介して上下 を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた回収用柔軟性筺体と、風力発電等自然エネ ルギー発電手段と、前記円形資源回収用管内で前記円形内部貫通部材の上部の空気を前記 自然エネルギー発電手段により排気する空気排気手段と、前記回収用柔軟性筺体内に具備 された撮像手段及び発光手段と、前記浮体構造物に具備され前記撮像手段の出力を表示す る表示手段とを備え、水平位置の際内部に水と空気を内蔵する前記資源回収用管を前記他方蛇腹管を折り畳むと共に垂直位置に移動して前記資源回収開口を海底又は湖底近傍の垂 直位置に移動させた後、前記可撓性ライザー官の他端に接続され水面上の前記浮体から金属 線等を介して上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた前記回収用柔軟性筺体を 移動して前記表示手段により前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源を検出すると共に前記資源回 収用管内で前記内部貫通部材の上部の空気を前記空気排出開口より排気することにより前 記中央管内の水面を前記中央管外の水面より上部に移動させて前記内部貫通部材を前記中 央管内の上部に移動させることにより前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水を前記資源回収 用管の外に放出して前記貯水槽により前記水排出用開口から排出される水を貯水すると共 に前記資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水を徐々に上部に移動させ前記資源回収用管内の海水 又は湖水を循環することにより前記資源回収開口より検出された前記資源を前記可撓性ラ イザー官を介して前記資源回収用管内に挿入し前記資源開口閉鎖手段を閉鎖して捕獲した 後、もう一方の端部の伸縮可能な他方蛇腹管の蛇腹を伸ばすと共に前記資源回収用管を再 び水平位置に移動して捕獲した前記資源を回収することを特徴とする。 海底又は湖底近傍の前記回収用柔軟性筺体内に海底又は湖底或いは川底を例えば電気的手 段により掘削する資源掘削手段或いは団塊を粉砕する団塊粉砕手段を具備する。また、前 記資源掘削手段或いは資源粉砕手段は回収用柔軟性筺体内に密閉して内蔵されている。 その場合例えば１０キロメートルの長さで長さの前記円形資源回収用管に可撓性ライザー 官を介して前記回収用柔軟性筺体が接続される。なお、前記円形資源回収用管を例えば１ キロメートルとし、残りの９キロメートルを可撓性ライザー官とし前記可撓性ライザー官 を介して前記回収用柔軟性筺体が接続される実施形態も実施可能である。 A fourth embodiment of the underwater resource recovery apparatus for underwater resources or undersea resources according to the present invention includes a stretchable bellows for mining organic resources such as methane hydrate near the deep sea floor or near the bottom of a lake or inorganic resources such as rare metals. In an embodiment, a central pipe having an air discharge opening, a water discharge opening near the center, and a held portion on one side, and one end of which is provided with the resources in the flexible recovery housing. A resource collection opening that is collected or mined through the container and a resource opening closing means that closes the resource collection opening at one end and one bellows tube that can be extended and contracted by a bellows, and the other end that can be extended and contracted by a bellows at the other end A resource recovery pipe having a bellows pipe, an internal penetrating member that penetrates the inside of the central pipe and has a specific gravity smaller than water that can close the water discharge opening, and holds a held part of the resource recovery pipe. Retention A floating structure having a detachable water storage tank for storing material and water discharged from the water discharge opening, and a flexible riser officer connected to a resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery pipe. A floating body on the water surface provided with a reel for winding a metal wire or the like separately provided from the floating body structure, and a metal wire or the like from the floating body connected to the other end of the flexible riser officer and on the water surface. A flexible recovery housing that is movable in three dimensions including up and down and has an opening below, natural energy power generation means such as wind power generation, and air above the circular internal penetrating member in the circular resource recovery pipe. Air exhaust means for exhausting by natural energy power generation means, imaging means and light emitting means provided in the flexible housing for recovery, and display means provided in the floating structure for displaying an output of the imaging means. Equipped with water inside when in horizontal position After moving the resource recovery tube containing air into the vertical position near the seabed or lake bottom by moving the other bellows tube to the vertical position by folding the other bellows tube, the flexible riser officer The collection flexible housing, which is connected to an end and is movable in three dimensions including up and down from the floating body on the water surface via a metal wire or the like and has an opening at the bottom, is moved and the display means displays the collection flexibility. By detecting the resources in the casing and exhausting the air above the internal penetrating member from the air discharge opening in the resource collection pipe, the water surface in the central pipe is moved above the water surface outside the central pipe. By moving the internal penetrating member to an upper portion in the central pipe, seawater or lake water is discharged from the water recovery opening to the outside of the resource recovery pipe and discharged from the water discharge opening by the water storage tank. When water is stored, the seawater or lake water in the resource recovery pipe is gradually moved upward and the seawater or lake water in the resource recovery pipe is circulated, so that the resources detected from the resource recovery opening can be collected by the resource recovery pipe. After being inserted into the resource recovery pipe via a flexible riser and closing and capturing the resource opening closing means, the bellows of the other extendable bellows pipe at the other end are extended and the resource recovery pipe is retracted. The method is characterized in that the pipe is moved to a horizontal position again to collect the captured resources. A resource excavation means for excavating the seabed, lake bottom or riverbed by, for example, an electric means, or a baby-batter crushing means for crushing the baby nodule, is provided in the recovery flexible housing near the seabed or lake bottom. Further, the resource excavation means or the resource crushing means is hermetically contained in a flexible housing for recovery. In this case, for example, the recovery flexible housing is connected to the circular resource recovery pipe having a length of 10 km through a flexible riser. In addition, an embodiment in which the circular resource collection pipe is, for example, 1 km, the remaining 9 km is a flexible riser officer, and the collection flexible housing is connected via the flexible riser officer is also feasible. is there.
採取或いは採掘する前は前記浮体構造物が資源回収用管を内部に水と空気を内蔵する状 態で水平位置に保持し、採取或いは採掘の際にはもう一方の端部の蛇腹により伸縮可能な 他方蛇腹管を折り畳むと共に前記片方蛇腹管を前記資源回収開口が海底又は湖底近傍に移 動するべく前記資源回収用管を垂直位置に移動させる。前記中央管の被保持部は片方側に あるので前記空気排出開口と中央部近傍に水排出用開口が水上に位置する。その後、前記 可撓性ライザー官の他端に接続され水面上の前記浮体から金属線等を介して上下を含む三次 元に移動可能で下方に開口を備えた回収用柔軟性筺体を移動して前記表示手段により前記 回収用柔軟性筺体内の資源を検出する共に前記中央管内で前記内部貫通部材の上部の空気 を前記自然エネルギー発電手段により排気する空気排気手段によって前記空気排出開口か ら排気し前記内部貫通部材を前記中央管内の上部に移動させ前記中央管内の水面を前記中 央管外の水面より上部に移動させることにより前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水を前記 資源回収用管の外に放出し前記貯水槽に貯水すると共に前記資源回収用管内の海水又は湖 水を徐々に上部に移動させ前記資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水を循環することにより前記 表示手段より検出された前記資源が前記可撓性ライザー官を介して前記資源回収用管内に 挿入され前記資源開口閉鎖手段を閉鎖して前記資源を捕獲することが可能となる。捕獲さ れた前記資源は前記資源回収用管内に収納されると共に前記水排出用開口より放出される 海水又は湖水は着脱可能な前記貯水槽により貯水されるので周囲環境に影響はない。捕獲 された前記資源が十分に前記資源回収用管内に蓄積収納された後、前記資源回収用管を再 び水平位置に移動する前に中央管の前記水排出用開口を閉鎖しもう一方の端部の伸縮可能 な他方蛇腹管の蛇腹を伸ばした後端部に資源回収開口を具備する前記片方蛇腹管を鎖によ り再び水平位置に移動し前記浮体構造物のバラスト水を制御することにより前記浮体構造 物を沈めて蛇腹を伸ばした他方蛇腹管の空気と前記片方蛇腹管の蓄積収納された前記資源 と海水又は湖水を内在し海水又は湖水上を浮力により浮く状態の前記資源回収用管を海水 又は湖水上に浮べて前記資源を回収する。なお、前記資源回収用管を再び水平位置に移動 する前に中央管の前記空気排出開口及び前記水排出用開口は閉鎖されるので周囲環境に影 響はない。 Before sampling or mining, the floating structure holds the resource recovery tube in a horizontal position with water and air inside, and can be expanded and contracted by bellows at the other end during sampling or mining. On the other hand, the bellows tube is folded, and the one tube is moved to the vertical position so that the resource recovery opening is moved to the vicinity of the bottom of the sea or the bottom of the lake. Since the held portion of the central pipe is on one side, the air discharge opening and the water discharge opening near the center are located above the water. Then, the flexible housing for recovery, which is connected to the other end of the flexible riser officer and is movable from the floating body on the water surface to three dimensions including the upper and lower sides via a metal wire or the like and has an opening below, is moved. The display means detects resources in the flexible housing for recovery and exhausts air above the internal penetrating member in the central pipe through the air exhaust opening by air exhaust means for exhausting the air above the internal penetrating member by the natural energy power generation means. By moving the internal penetrating member to the upper part in the central pipe and moving the water surface in the central pipe to a position higher than the water surface outside the central pipe, seawater or lake water is discharged from the water discharge opening to the outside of the resource recovery pipe. And the water is stored in the water storage tank, and the seawater or lake water in the resource recovery pipe is gradually moved upward to circulate the seawater or lake water in the resource recovery pipe, whereby the display hand is discharged. It is possible to capture the resource more said detected resource to close the resource opening closing means is inserted into the resource recovery tube through the flexible riser officer. The captured resources are stored in the resource recovery pipe and the seawater or lake water discharged from the water discharge opening is stored in the removable water storage tank, so that the surrounding environment is not affected. After the captured resources have been sufficiently accumulated and stored in the resource recovery pipe, close the water discharge opening of the central pipe before moving the resource recovery pipe to the horizontal position again. By moving the one bellows tube provided with a resource recovery opening at the rear end where the bellows of the other bellows tube which is extensible is extended to the horizontal position again by a chain to control the ballast water of the floating structure The resource collection pipe in which the floating structure is submerged and the bellows are extended, while the air of the bellows pipe and the resources stored and stored in the one bellows pipe and seawater or lake water are contained therein and float on the seawater or lake water by buoyancy. Float above seawater or lake water to recover the resources. Since the air discharge opening and the water discharge opening of the central pipe are closed before the resource recovery pipe is moved to the horizontal position again, the surrounding environment is not affected.
本発明による資源回収方法の第四の実施形態は深い海底又は湖底の実施形態で、採取或 いは採掘する前は前記浮体構造物が資源回収用管の内部に水と空気を内蔵する状態で水平位置に保持する第１のステップと、採取或いは採掘の際にもう一方の端部の蛇腹により伸 縮可能な他方蛇腹管を折り畳むと共に前記片方蛇腹管を前記資源回収開口が海底又は湖底 近傍に移動するべく前記資源回収用管を垂直位置に移動させ前記空気排出開口と中央部近 傍の前記水排出用開口が水上に位置させる第２のステップと、前記可撓性ライザー官の他 端に接続され水面上の前記浮体から金属線等を介して上下を含む三次元に移動可能で下方に 開口を備えた回収用柔軟性筺体を移動して前記表示手段により前記回収用柔軟性筺体内の 資源を検出する第３のステップと、前記中央管内で前記内部貫通部材の上部の空気を前記 空気排出開口から排気し前記中央管内の水面を前記中央管外の水面より上部に移動させて 前記内部貫通部材を前記中央管内の上部に移動させることにより前記資源回収用管内の海 水又は湖水を徐々に上部に移動させ前記資源回収用管内の海水又は湖水を循環することに より前記表示手段より検出された前記資源が前記可撓性ライザー官を介して前記資源回収 開口より前記資源回収用管内に挿入されて前記回収用柔軟性筺体内前記資源を捕獲すると 共に前記水排出用開口より海水又は湖水を前記資源回収用管の外に放出し前記貯水槽に貯 水する第４のステップと、捕獲された前記資源が十分に前記資源回収用管内に蓄積収納さ れた後、前記資源回収用管を再び水平位置に移動する前に中央管の前記水排出用開口を閉 鎖しもう一方の端部の伸縮可能な他方蛇腹管の蛇腹を伸ばした後前記空気排出開口を閉鎖 すると共に端部に資源回収開口を具備する前記片方蛇腹管を鎖により再び水平位置に移動 し前記浮体構造物のバラスト水を制御することにより前記浮体構造物を沈めて蛇腹を伸ば した他方蛇腹管の空気と前記片方蛇腹管の蓄積収納された前記資源と海水又は湖水を内在 して海水又は湖水上を浮力により浮く状態の前記資源回収用管を海水又は湖水上に浮べる 第５のステップと、資源を捕獲した前記円形資源回収用管を移送地に移送する第６のステ ップよりなる。
A fourth embodiment of the resource recovery method according to the present invention is a deep sea floor or lake bottom embodiment, in which the floating structure has water and air built in the resource recovery pipe before sampling or mining. A first step of maintaining the horizontal position, folding the other bellows tube which can be expanded and contracted by the bellows at the other end during sampling or mining, and placing the one bellows tube near the bottom of the sea or lake where the resource recovery opening is located. A second step of moving the resource collection tube to a vertical position for movement so that the air discharge opening and the water discharge opening near the center are located above the water, and at the other end of the flexible riser officer. The flexible housing for recovery, which is movable three-dimensionally including up and down from the floating body connected to the water surface via a metal wire or the like and has an opening below, is moved by the display means, and the inside of the flexible housing for recovery is displayed by the display means. A third method for detecting resources Step and exhausting the air above the internal penetrating member in the central pipe from the air discharge opening, and moving the water surface in the central pipe above the water surface outside the central pipe to move the internal penetrating member in the central pipe. By moving the seawater or lake water in the resource recovery pipe to the upper part by moving it to the upper part and circulating the seawater or lake water in the resource recovery pipe, the resources detected by the display means can be transferred to the upper part. It is inserted through the resource recovery opening into the resource recovery pipe through the flexible riser officer to capture the resources in the recovery flexible housing and to remove seawater or lake water from the water discharge opening into the resource recovery pipe. A fourth step of discharging the water to the outside and storing it in the water storage tank, and after the captured resources are sufficiently accumulated and stored in the resource recovery pipe, the resource recovery pipe is moved to the horizontal position again. Before the opening, the water discharge opening of the central pipe is closed, the other end of the bellows pipe is extended and the bellows of the bellows pipe are extended, and then the air discharge opening is closed and a resource recovery opening is provided at the end. The one bellows tube is moved to a horizontal position again by a chain, and the ballast water of the floating body structure is controlled to sink the floating body structure and extend the bellows. On the other hand, the air of the bellows tube and the storage of the one bellows tube are stored. A fifth step of floating the resource recovery pipe in a state of being floated on seawater or lake water with the buoyancy inherent in the resource and seawater or lakewater, and the circular resource recovery pipe capturing the resource. And the sixth step of transferring the wastewater to the transfer destination.
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