30 September 2019 to 3 October 2019
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

System architecture of the upcoming BE-OI ice-coring-drill drive-chain

3 Oct 2019, 11:00
20m
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters H.C. Andersens Boulevard 35 DK-1553 Copenhagen V Denmark
Oral Session 6

Speakers

Mr Matthias Hüther (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) Josef Lehmann (Cipunet®)

Description

The upcoming deep ice-coring project Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice (BE-OI) in Antarctica requires a robust and capable electrical drive-chain. The design goal was to increase the useable mechanical power of the drill motor as well as the data transfer between the surface and the downhole section by keeping the system as compatible as possible to existing dill systems.
The system consists of a brushless-direct-drive electrical motor with controller, a high voltage DC power supply and modem pair, which operates over a 4 km long steel armoured coaxial cable. Component tests was conducted by shallow coring of about 100 m at Neumayer 3 (2016) and
80 m EastGRIP (2017). Additionally a full drive-chain test deployment was performed in the EDML borehole up to 2600m depth in December 2018.

Primary author

Mr Matthias Hüther (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

Co-authors

Frank Wilhelms (Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Jan Tell Mr Benjamin Broy (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung) Svenja Schiwek (Alfred Wegener Institute) Josef Lehmann (Cipunet®)

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