JP2018178712A - Underwater resource recovery system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an underwater resource recovery device capable of altering a recovery position underwater or water bottom etc. from a floating body on water level.SOLUTION: An underwater resource recovery device includes a resource recovery tube which is provided with a water discharge aperture of water lebel upper and lower part at an upper part of one end and a discharge port at its upper part and a resource recovery aperture for drilling an organic substance resource or inorganic substance resource underwater on a lower part of the other end. A flexible recovery tube or a flexible riser tube is connected to the resource recovery aperture of the other end of the resource recovery tube. A recovery flexible casing which can be moved in three-dimension including the vertical direction via a metal wire etc. from water level near a mother ship, is connected to the other end of the flexible recovery tube or the flexible riser tube. The position of the recovery flexible casing is altered from water level near the mother ship, and thereby the recovery position of the resource can be altered. An underwater resource recovery method is also provided.SELECTED DRAWING: None

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an underwater resource recovery apparatus such as an underwater resource or a submarine resource provided with a resource recovery pipe . The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to the present invention is a collection of biological or plant resources or organic or inorganic resources in the sea, lake and river, or collection of biological or plant resources on the seabed, lake bottom and river bottom or organic resources or It is applicable to mining of mineral resources.

Japan is the 60th largest country in the world, but Japan's exclusive economic zone is the sixth largest in the world. In particular, it is necessary to effectively utilize organic or inorganic resources on the seabed. A riser system (Japanese Patent No. 4427441) used when drilling a deep-seabed ground and an underwater long large pipe (utility model registration 25936 64) equipped with a bellows suspended from an offshore structure floating on the sea have been conventionally proposed. It has not been implemented or put into practical use yet. The applicant uses the resource recovery pipe having a water discharge opening at the upper end of the water surface at one upper end and an exhaust port at the upper end and a resource recovery opening at the lower end of the other end for recovering the resource . 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 an underwater resource recovery method characterized in that underwater resources such as underwater resources or submarine resources are collected or mined from the resource recovery opening. 2737) has already been proposed as a prior application.

The present invention relates to the related application of the prior application, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an underwater resource recovery apparatus and an underwater resource recovery method capable of changing the recovery position such as underwater or sea bottom from floating body on the water surface .

The present invention is a resource having a water discharge opening at the upper end of the water surface at one end and an exhaust port at the upper end, and a resource recovery opening for extracting organic or inorganic resources in the water of the seabed at the lower end of the other end. relates underwater resource recovery apparatus and water resources recovered method characterized by the collecting pipe by circulating seawater or lake water or Kawasui of the resource in the collecting tube and collected from the resource recovery opening resources or mining , water and the other end to the vicinity of the mother ship is connected to a flexible collection pipe or flexible riser pipe in resource recovery opening of the other end of the resource recovery pipe the flexible collection pipe or flexible riser pipe A flexible flexible recovery body with top and bottom movable via a metal wire etc. and an opening at the bottom is connected, and the position of the flexible flexible recovery body from above the water surface is from above the water surface near the mother ship It can be changed to change the collection position of resources There is provided an underwater resource recovery apparatus and water resource recovery process.
The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 1 comprises a water discharge opening at the upper and lower portions of the water surface and an exhaust port at an upper portion thereof, and a resource recovery opening having an exhaust port at one upper end and a resource recovery opening at the lower end of the other end. and use tube, specific gravity internally a through the interior of the water surface closing the water discharge opening when to be the same as the water level outside the resource recovery pipe of the resource recovery pipe and small internal penetrating member than water, A flexible recovery pipe or a flexible riser pipe connected to the resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery pipe, and the other end of the flexible recovery pipe or the flexible riser pipe are built in on the water surface including a recovery flexibility housing having an opening to be moved downward in three dimensions including the up and down from the floating body, said by evacuating from the top of the air the exhaust port of the internal through member in the resource recovery pipe on the water resources in the recovery pipe from the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe The dynamic is allowed to seawater or lake water or Kawasui from the water discharge opening moves the internal through member at the top of the resource recovery pipe from being discharged to the outside of the resource recovery pipe to the resource recovery pipe the flexible collection pipe or flexible before Symbol recovery flexibility in the housing by moving the seawater or lake water or Kawasui the top gradually circulating sea water or lake water or Kawasui of the resource in the collecting pipe sex riser pipe harvested or mined resources through is collected or mined the resource recovery the resource recovery pipe from the opening to capture the resource and recovering the resource.
The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a filter at a lower part of the water discharge opening of the resource recovery pipe .
The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 3 is the underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein an imaging means and a light emitting means are provided inside the recovery flexible housing.
The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 4 is the underwater resource recovery apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a digging apparatus or a mining apparatus is provided inside the flexible flexible recovery housing.
The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising: a floating body structure having a holding member for retaining an upper portion of one end of the resource recovery pipe. It is.
Water resource recovery apparatus according to claim 6, and resource opening closing means for closing the resource collection apertures in the lower portion of the other end of the resource recovery pipe connected to the lower portion of the other end of the resource recovery pipe comprising a Tagusari, the resource recovery tube closed before Symbol resource recovery opening after capturing said resource by said to resource recovery harvested or mined resources within tube the resource opening closure means through said chain The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the resource recovery pipe floats and floats and the floated resource recovery pipe is moved to recover the resource.
The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 7, characterized in that the floating body on the water surface comprises a reel for moving the recovery flexible casing in three dimensions. Underwater resource recovery equipment.

The flexible flexible recovery body having an opening downward from the floating body on the water surface is movable in three dimensions including upper and lower portions via a metal wire or the like through the flexible recovery pipe or flexible riser pipe. 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 will not affect the surrounding environment.

   The first embodiment of the underwater resource recovery apparatus according to the present invention is an embodiment of the collection of biological resources or plant resources or organic resources or inorganic resources in water, comprising an opening for discharging water at the top of one end and an upper portion of the water surface. A filter for passing only water at the lower part thereof, an air outlet at the upper part of the water outlet, and a resource recovery port for collecting resources in the sea, lake or river at the other end, the resource recovery port For example, a circular resource recovery pipe having a resource opening closing means for closing the container, a holding member for holding an upper portion of one end of the circular resource recovery pipe, and a removable water reservoir for storing water discharged from the water discharge opening Floating body structure having a large water storage tank, and the inner surface of the circular resource recovery pipe, and the water surface inside is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe; Center smaller than A circular inner penetrating member provided with a flexible recovery pipe connected to the resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery pipe, and a separate floating body on a water surface equipped with a reel for winding a metal wire or the like. A flexible flexible recovery body which is connected to the other end of the flexible recovery pipe and is movable in three dimensions including the upper and lower portions from the floating body on the water surface via the metal wire etc. Natural energy generation means such as electric power generation, air exhaust means connected to the air discharge opening and exhausting air above the circular inner penetrating member in the circular resource recovery pipe by the natural energy generation means; flexibility for recovery An imaging means and a light emitting means provided in a housing; and a display means provided on the floating body structure to display an output of the imaging means, and moving the floating body on the water surface and moving the floating body by the display means. In the flexible box for recovery The water surface in the circular resource recovery pipe is upper than the water surface outside the circular resource recovery pipe by detecting resources and exhausting the air above the internal penetrating member in the circular resource recovery pipe by the air exhausting means. To move the circular inner penetrating member to the upper part in the circular resource recovery pipe, discharge seawater, lake water or river water from the water discharge opening to the outside of the circular resource recovery pipe, and transfer it to the water storage tank. By storing the water and moving the seawater, lake water or river water in the circular resource recovery pipe gradually to the upper part and circulating it, the resources in the recovery flexible box can be circulated 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 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.

   The second embodiment of the underwater resource recovery apparatus such as marine resources or submarine resources according to the present invention collects biological resources such as sea urchin or plant resources such as sea urchins on the sea floor or lake bottom or river bottom or organic resources such as methane hydrate or rare metals In an embodiment for mining mineral resources, etc., the top of one end is provided with a water discharge opening at the top and bottom of the water surface, a filter that allows only water to pass below it, and an air discharge opening at the top of the water discharge opening. At the other end, for example, a circular resource recovery pipe having a resource recovery opening and resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening at the lower part of the other end, and the upper part of one end of the circular resource recovery pipe A floating body structure having a holding member and a removable water storage tank for storing water discharged from the water discharge opening, and the inside of the circular resource recovery pipe penetrating the inside When the water surface is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe, the specific gravity for closing the water discharge opening is smaller than water, and a circular inner penetrating member having a central opening, and the resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery pipe A floating body on a water surface separately provided with a flexible riser pipe connected to the reel and a reel for winding a metal wire etc., the floating body on the water surface connected to the other end of the flexible riser pipe from the metal wire The flexible flexible housing which can move in three dimensions including the upper and lower through an opening etc., natural energy generating means such as wind power generation, and the air discharge opening, connected with the air discharge opening, and the circular resource collecting pipe The air exhausting means for exhausting the air in the upper portion of the circular inner penetrating member by the natural energy generating means, the imaging means and the light emitting means provided in the flexible housing for recovery, and the floating body structure Output of imaging means The floating body on the water surface to change the position of the flexible flexible case and the display means to detect the resources inside the flexible flexible box and the air exhausting means to By exhausting the air above the circular internal penetrating 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 penetrating member is removed. It moves to the upper part in the circular resource recovery pipe, releases seawater, lake water or river water from the circular water recovery port to the outside of the circular resource recovery pipe and stores the water in the water storage tank, and also inside the circular resource recovery pipe. Resources in the flexible housing for recovery are inserted from the resource recovery opening via the flexible riser pipe by gradually moving and circulating seawater or lake water or river water upward. After collecting or digging in the circular resource recovery pipe, the resource recovery opening is closed by the resource opening closing means to capture the resources and the resource recovery opening of the circular resource recovery pipe is on the sea surface, lake surface or river surface The circular resource recovery pipe is moved in the horizontal direction so as to recover the captured resources.

   A flexible recovery pipe or a flexible pipe connected to the resource recovery opening at the other end of the circular resource recovery pipe, comprising a floating structure on the sea, lake or river holding the upper portion of one end of the circular resource recovery pipe Flexible riser pipe and the flexible recovery pipe or the other end of the flexible riser pipe, which can be moved in three dimensions including up and down through metal wires etc. from the floating body on the water surface and has an opening at the bottom By moving the recovery flexible frame by the floating body, it is possible to change the collection place in the sea or lake or in the river, the collection place on the seabed or bottom, or the bottom of the river or the river. Since the circular resource recovery pipe is provided with a filter that allows only water to pass through the lower part of the water discharge opening, the water discharged from the water discharge opening may be discharged directly to the sea, a lake or a river. The floating body on the water surface is provided with display means for incorporating the imaging means and the light emitting means in the flexible housing for recovery, and displaying the output of the imaging means at the upper end of the floating body structure on the sea, lake or river. By moving the flexible flexible body with three-dimensional movement including the upper and lower sides via metal wires etc. from below and having an opening downward, the collection place in the sea or lake or in the river or the seabed or lake bottom or river bottom It is possible to display the status of resources at a place or a mining place by the display means. Before laying the circular resource recovery pipe in the sea, in the lake, in the river, on the bottom of the sea, in the bottom of the lake, the bridge is connected to the bottom of the circular resource recovery pipe and 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 bottom of the lake, the bottom of the river. In the case of deep seabed or lake bottom, one embodiment of the circular resource recovery pipe is, for example, a circular resource having a length of 10 km, an adjustable length, and a plurality of smaller inner and outer diameters toward the bottom. Measure the depth of the seabed or bottom from the sea or above the lake before laying, and make the circular resource recovery pipe overlapping several layers the measured length of the seabed or bottom. In a state where the circular resource recovery pipe is filled with seawater or lake water, it is laid to the sea floor or the bottom of the lake through the above-mentioned lower part of the circular resource recovery pipe. In that case, for example, the recovery flexible casing is connected to the circular resource recovery pipe having a length of 10 kilometers via a flexible riser pipe. In addition, an embodiment in which the circular resource recovery pipe is, for example, 1 km, and the remaining 9 km is a flexible riser pipe and the flexible flexible recovery pipe is connected via the flexible riser pipe can also be implemented. It is.

   In the case of a deep sea floor or lake bottom, another embodiment of the circular resource recovery pipe is, for example, a 10-kilometer long, adjustable-length, small-diameter circle with a smaller inner diameter as it goes lower. The resource recovery pipe and the central part are composed of an axis whose length is adjustable and the inner and outer diameters are smaller with decreasing in diameter toward the lower part, and the circular shape is overlapped by the axis overlapping in multiple layers. The lower part of the resource recovery pipe will reach the bottom of the sea floor or bottom of the lake and lay down to the bottom of the sea bottom or bottom of the lake or bottom of the river. In the first and second embodiments, the volume of water for moving the water surface in the circular resource recovery pipe above the water surface outside the circular resource recovery pipe is compared with the volume of water discharged from the water discharge opening. The outer diameter of the upper part of the circular resource recovery pipe should be as large as possible. A stopper for limiting the movement of the circular inner penetrating member having a central opening is provided in the circular resource recovery pipe, and the amount of water discharged from the water discharge opening is limited. The inner and outer diameters of the circular resource recovery pipe middle part are made the same inner and outer diameters as the upper part or gradually smaller inner and outer diameters, and biological resources or mineral lumps pass through the inner and outer diameters of the resource recovery opening at the lowermost part of the circular resource recovery pipe. Make it as small as possible. If it is made smaller, it is possible to accelerate the circulating water flow and the efficiency of extraction or mining is good. The components other than the lower part of the flexible housing for recovery are sealed and incorporated so as not to affect the environment at the time of extraction or mining. The biological resource or mineral lump can pass through the inner diameter of the circular resource recovery pipe connected via the flexible recovery pipe or the flexible riser pipe in a wide area at the bottom of the flexible recovery rod. It is possible to widen the area of collection or mining at the lowermost part of the flexible flexible housing by forming the opening to be smaller and quicker to the circulation of the water flow. A closure means for closing the resource recovery opening is provided immediately above the reduced diameter inner and outer diameter resource recovery openings so as to capture the harvested or mined resource. The floating structure on the sea, on the lake, or on the river may be configured to include means for generating natural energy such as wind power, sunlight, wave power, and storage means, and may be moved by the power thereof. It is connected to the other end of the flexible recovery pipe or the flexible riser pipe, 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 the recovery flexibility having an opening at the lower side. Resources can be easily mined if they are equipped with, for example, an electrically operated resource drilling means or a resource powder crushing means by an external operation member for excavating or crushing the resources inside the housing. Therefore, the excavated or crushed cuttings are sealed by the recovery flexible housing, and the efficient flow of mining is efficiently done by the quick water flow circulated by the resource recovery opening having a small inner and outer diameter, so that the surrounding environment is affected. Absent. The embodiment in which the middle part of the circular resource recovery pipe is a flexible pipe, the embodiment in which the circular resource recovery pipe is overlapped in layers and the length is adjusted by a pipe having a smaller inside and outside diameter as it goes lower An embodiment of a bellows pipe in which the length of the inner and outer diameters is reduced as the circular resource recovery pipe goes down can be implemented. In that case, the resource excavating means or resource crushing means in the flexible recovery case is operated by the external operation member, and the excavated or crushed resource etc. is the flexible recovery tube or flexible riser tube. Since the water excavated in the circular resource recovery pipe and discharged from the water discharge opening of the circular resource recovery pipe is stored by the removable water storage tank, the surrounding environment is not affected. The resource excavating means may be electrically moved, for example, in the recovery flexible housing which is movable in three dimensions including up and down from the floating body on the water surface via metal wires etc. Excavating cobalt-rich kraft with high cobalt content, especially from the top of seamounts in relatively shallow waters, on the slope, through the flexible riser pipe to the bottom of the circular resource recovery pipe It becomes the composition which precipitates mineral resources. Also when collecting diamonds in the deep sea floor or mining mineral resources such as methane hydrate organic resources, rare earth mud, seawater hydrothermal deposits, etc. The resources will be deposited on the lower surface. When mining the organic resources of methane hydrate, it is also possible to implement a configuration in which an electric cooling device is provided on the lower surface of the circular resource recovery pipe. In addition, when the organic matter resource of methane hydrate is vaporized, the vaporized methane hydrate is recovered through the central opening of the circular inner penetrating member. The air exhausting means exhausts the air above the circular inner penetrating member, for example, by natural energy such as wind power, sunlight, wave power, or the like. The circular resource collecting pipe is arranged so that the volume of water moving the water surface in the circular resource collecting pipe above the water surface outside the circular resource collecting pipe is relatively larger than the volume of water discharged from the water discharging opening. If the outer shape is in the upper part of the air, air will not be inserted from the water discharge opening. Also, even if air is inserted, the circular inner penetrating member has a central opening, so when moving the inner penetrating member to the upper part in the circular resource recovery pipe, the sea surface in the circular resource recovery pipe Alternatively, air inserted from the water discharge opening, which intervenes the lake surface or river surface and the lower surface of the inner penetrating member, can be suctioned by the central opening. When resources are mixed in the water discharged from the water discharge opening, the resources are recovered from the water storage tank. The resource recovery pipe has been described in the embodiment having a circular outer diameter, but any shape such as a square is possible.

The circular resource recovery pipe has a weir directly below the water discharge opening, and is held by the annular floating structure through the circular hole of the annular floating structure, for example, on the sea surface, the lake surface or the river surface. 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 A configuration in which the circular resource recovery pipe is connected at the time of laying is also possible. The resource recovery pipe is connected to the recovery flexible housing via a flexible riser pipe. Moreover, the structure which moves the said annular floating body member, for example by the electric power of natural energy etc. is also feasible.

   The collected or mined resources are connected to the resource recovery vessel via the air outlet and the bellows pipe, and the circular resource recovery tubes are filled with air and the resources or seawater or lake water via the ladder. After the circular resource recovery pipe is floated on the sea, lake or river, the circular resource recovery pipe is moved horizontally on the sea surface, lake surface or river surface, and the circular resource recovery pipe is transferred to the transfer site. Transfer to recover resources. When the bottom of the sea floor or the bottom of the lake is deep, connect the lower end of the circular resource recovery pipe to the bottom of the circular resource recovery pipe, and the resources in the recovery flexible box in the sea or lake are the circular resource recovery pipe through the flexible recovery pipe. Collection or resources inside the recovery flexible box near the seabed or lake bottom are collected or mined into the circular resource recovery pipe via the flexible riser pipe, and the resource recovery opening is closed to After the resources in the lower part of the circular resource recovery pipe are captured in the circular resource recovery pipe, a container having a bellows pipe with substantially the same volume as the circular resource recovery pipe is connected to the air discharge port at the air outlet. Or connected to a resource recovery vessel through the air discharge opening and the bellows tube, and the circular resource recovery tube is filled with air and the resource collected or mined and filled with the resource and seawater or lake water through the ladder. Recovery pipe The floating resource recovery pipe can be moved horizontally on the sea surface or the lake surface to transfer the circular resource recovery pipe and the container to a transfer site to recover resources. The resource collection pipe, which has an adjustable length and several smaller overlapping inner and outer diameters, is used again to recover the resources after it is again in the state of overlapping several times. In addition, the resource recovery pipe, which is composed of a bellows tube whose length is adjustable and whose inner and outer diameters become smaller toward the lower side, is made short again, and the resource is recovered.

   The first embodiment of the resource recovery method according to the present invention comprises the air discharge opening from the floating structure and the lower water discharge opening on the water surface at the top of one end and the resource recovery opening at the lower end of the other end. For example, the first step of laying a circular resource recovery pipe in the sea or in the lake or on the sea floor or bottom of the lake or bottom, and the inner water surface of the circular resource recovery pipe penetrates the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe. In the same case, the water surface in the circular resource recovery pipe is evacuated from the water surface outside the circular resource recovery pipe by exhausting the air in the upper part of the circular inner penetrating member whose specific gravity for closing the water discharge opening is smaller than water. Move to the upper part, move the circular inner penetrating member to the upper part in the circular resource recovery pipe, and discharge seawater, lake water or river water from the water discharge opening to a water storage tank outside the circular resource recovery pipe Capital Resources in the flexible housing for recovery are transferred through the flexible recovery pipe or flexible riser pipe by gradually moving and circulating seawater or lake water or river water in the recovery pipe to the upper part. Resources in the lake, in the river, on the sea floor, at the bottom of the lake or near the bottom of the resource are collected or mined from the resource recovery opening into the resource recovery pipe, and biological resources or plant resources under the resource recovery pipe or precipitated organic resources Alternatively, the method comprises a second step of capturing mineral resources in the resource collection pipe. It comprises the third step of transferring the circular resource recovery pipe which has captured the resource to a transfer site.

   According to a second embodiment of the resource recovery method of the present invention, an air discharge opening from the floating structure and a lower water discharge opening on the water surface, a filter for passing only water through the lower part, and an upper part of the water discharge opening For example, a first step of laying a circular resource recovery pipe in the sea, in the lake, on the sea floor or the bottom, and having a resource recovery opening at the bottom of the other end, and penetrating the inside of the circular resource recovery pipe When the water surface inside is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe, the water inside the circular resource recovery pipe can be exhausted by exhausting the air above the circular internal penetrating member whose specific gravity is smaller than water. Move the water surface above the water surface outside the circular resource recovery pipe, move the circular inner penetrating member to the upper part in the circular resource recovery pipe, and move the seawater or lake water from the water discharge opening to the circular resource recovery pipe By releasing it to an external water storage tank and gradually moving up and circulating seawater or lake water in the circular resource recovery pipe, resources in the recovery flexible box in the sea or lake, or on the sea floor or near the bottom of the lake. Is collected or mined from the resource recovery opening into the resource recovery pipe through the flexible recovery pipe or the flexible riser pipe, and the biological resource or plant resource or sediment of the lower part of the resource recovery pipe is The second step of capturing organic or inorganic resources in the resource recovery pipe, and connecting the air discharge opening to a container provided with a bellows tube having substantially the same volume as the circular resource recovery pipe, or the air discharge opening The circular resource is connected to a resource recovery vessel via a bellows tube, and the circular resource recovery tube is filled with air, collected or mined resources and seawater or lake water, and the circular resource via the bridge. 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.

  A lower resource recovery pipe having a resource recovery opening and adjustable in length, an upper resource recovery pipe having an air discharge opening and a water discharge opening, and an upper resource collection pipe having a weir directly below the water discharge opening In the case of a circular resource recovery pipe, the first step is to adjust the length of the lower resource recovery pipe and set the resource recovery opening in the sea, in the lake, in the river, on the sea floor, in the lake bottom or near the river bottom. The step of laying and the step of laying the upper resource recovery pipe from the floating body structure and coupling with the lower resource recovery pipe.

The third embodiment of the underwater resource recovery apparatus for underwater resources or submarine resources according to the present invention is an embodiment for mining mineral lumps such as cobalt lumps, for example. A filter for passing only water at the bottom and an air outlet at the top of the water outlet, and the bottom of the other end is the bottom of the sea floor or the bottom of the lake or the bottom of the river. For example, a circular resource recovery pipe having a resource recovery opening collected via a riser pipe and a resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening has a large inside and outside diameter, and for discharging water from the air discharge opening and water above and below the water surface. An opening is provided at the upper end of one end, and a lower end of the other end is provided with a resource recovery opening for mining a lump efficiently by reducing the inner and outer diameters, and a resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening. A floating member structure having a holding member for holding an upper portion of one end of the pipe and a removable water storage tank for storing water discharged from the water discharge opening; and penetrating the inside of the upper part of the resource collection pipe When the water surface is the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe, for example, an internal penetrating member whose specific gravity for closing the water discharge opening is smaller than water and a reel for winding a metal wire etc. provided separately from the floating structure. A floating body on the water surface, a flexible riser member connected to the resource recovery opening at the other end of the resource recovery pipe, and the other end of the flexible riser member connected to the other end of the flexible riser member For recovery of the circular resources connected to the flexible energy recovery body that can be moved in three dimensions including upper and lower through metal wires etc. and has an opening at the bottom, natural energy generation means such as wind power generation, and the air discharge opening. The air above the circular internal penetration member in the tube The air exhausting means for exhausting by the natural energy generating means, the imaging means and the light emitting means provided in the flexible housing for recovery, and the upper end portion of the floating body structure are provided to display the output of the imaging means A flexible flexible recovery body having display means, connected to the other end of the flexible riser and movable from the floating body on the water surface through a metal wire or the like in three dimensions including up and down and having a downward opening. The resource recovery pipe is detected by detecting the resources inside the recovery flexible box by the display means while exhausting the air above the internal penetrating member in the resource recovery pipe by the air exhausting means. Water surface is moved to a position above the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe, the internal penetrating member is moved to an upper portion inside the resource recovery pipe, and seawater, lake water or river water is discharged from the water discharge opening. The resource detected by discharging it out of the collection pipe and gradually moving the water or lake water or river water in the resource collection pipe upward and circulating it through the flexible riser efficiently detects the resource. It is inserted from the recovery opening and closes the resource recovery opening by the resource opening closing means to capture the resource and move the resource recovery opening of the resource recovery pipe to the sea surface, the lake surface or the vicinity of the river surface. The tube is moved horizontally to recover the captured resources.
When resources are mixed in the water discharged from the water discharge opening, the resources are recovered from the storage tank. The floating body structure is configured to be movable by power generation means of natural energy and storage means. For example, an electrically driven resource grinding means for grinding the seabed or lake bottom or river bottom mineral lumps is provided in the seabed or the bottom of the lake or near the bottom of the river, and the resource recovery opening of small inside and outside diameter is obtained. Pulverize to the size that mineral lumps penetrate. In addition, since the resource crushing means and the resource recovery opening are sealed and incorporated in the flexible housing for recovery except the lower part through the opening which penetrates, the shredded shredded container is sealed in the housing and the inside and outside diameter of The small resource recovery opening does not affect the surrounding environment because mining efficiency is mined efficiently by the circulating fast water flow. A resource opening and closing means for closing the resource recovery opening is provided immediately above the reduced inner and outer diameters, and the collected or mined resource is captured. It is possible to adjust the length by constructing the resource recovery pipe as a pipe of which the inner and outer diameters become smaller as it goes to the bottom of the stack. Further, the resource recovery pipe can be formed of a bellows pipe whose inner and outer diameters are smaller toward the lower part, and the length can be adjusted. It is also possible to recover resources by re-stacking the resource recovery pipe, which has an adjustable length and several smaller overlapping inner and outer diameters. In addition, the resource recovery pipe, which is composed of a bellows tube whose length is adjustable and whose inner and outer diameters become smaller toward the bottom, is made short again to recover resources. In that case, for example, the recovery flexible casing is connected to the circular resource recovery pipe having a length of 10 kilometers in length via a flexible riser. In addition, an embodiment in which the circular resource recovery pipe is, for example, 1 km, and the remaining 9 km is a flexible riser and the recovery flexible frame is connected through the flexible riser is also feasible. It is.

   The second embodiment of the resource recovery method according to the present invention is a method for recovering a mineral nodule resource according to the present invention, the water discharge opening having large inside and outside diameter and upper and lower water surface, the filter for passing only water to the lower part thereof A circular resource recovery provided with an air discharge opening at the top at the top of one end and a resource recovery opening at the bottom of the other end at the bottom of the seabed or bottom or near the bottom of the river to reduce the inner and outer diameters efficiently A first step of laying the circular resource recovery pipe from a floating structure on the sea or lake or river which holds the upper end of one end of the pipe to the seabed or bottom of the lake or river bottom, and the other end of the flexible riser Connected to the floating body on the water surface and movable in three dimensions including up and down via metal wires etc., and moving the recovery flexible case provided with an opening at the bottom, and provided in the recovery flexible case. The second step of searching for mineral lumps by observing the output of the display means for displaying the output of the imaging means at the upper end of the floating body structure, and the internal water surface penetrating the inside of the circular resource recovery pipe When the same as the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe, the water discharge opening is closed. By discharging the air above the circular internal penetration member whose specific gravity is smaller than water, the circular internal penetration member is used to recover the circular resource. The third step of moving to the upper part in the pipe and moving the water surface in the circular resource collecting pipe to the upper part of the water surface outside the circular resource collecting pipe, and seawater, lake water or river water from the water discharge opening. By releasing it out of the circular resource recovery pipe and gradually moving the seawater or lake water or river water in the circular resource recovery pipe upward to the circulation, it circulates through the resource recovery opening in the flexible housing from the resource recovery opening. Resources A fourth step of collecting or digging in the resource recovery pipe via a flexible riser and capturing it in the resource recovery pipe, and a bellows having substantially the same volume as the circular resource recovery pipe at the air discharge opening. Connecting a container equipped with a pipe or connecting with a resource recovery vessel through the air discharge opening and a bellows pipe, the circular resource recovery pipe is filled with air and collected or mined resources and seawater or lake water It comprises the fifth step of floating the resource recovery pipe horizontally on the sea or on the lake, and the sixth step of transferring the circular resource recovery pipe which has captured the resources to the transfer site.

   A fourth embodiment of the underwater resource recovery apparatus such as marine resources or submarine resources according to the present invention comprises a stretchable bellows for mining an organic material resource such as methane hydrate or a mineral resource such as rare metal in deep sea bottom or near lake bottom. In an embodiment, a central pipe having an air outlet and a water outlet near the central portion and a holding portion on one side and resources at the one end of the flexible casing for recovery are the flexible risers. A resource recovery opening collected or mined through the opening and a resource opening closing means for closing the resource recovery opening at one end, one bellows tube expandable by bellows and the other expandable by bellows at the other end A resource recovery pipe provided with a bellows pipe, an inner penetrating member having a smaller specific gravity than water which can penetrate the inside of the central pipe and close the water discharge opening, and a held portion of the resource recovery pipe Retention Material and a floating structure having a removable water storage tank for storing water discharged from the water discharge opening, a flexible riser member connected to a resource collection opening at the other end of the resource collection pipe A floating body on a water surface provided with a reel for winding a metal wire or the like separately provided from the floating body structure, and the other end of the flexible riser member connected to the other end of the floating surface from the floating body via a metal wire or the like The flexible housing for recovery that can be moved in three dimensions including the upper and lower, an opening at the bottom, natural energy power generation means such as wind power generation, and the air above the circular inner penetrating member in the circular resource recovery pipe Air exhausting means for exhausting by natural energy generating means, imaging means and light emitting means provided in the flexible housing for recovery, display means for displaying the output of the imaging means provided on the floating body structure Equipped with water inside when in horizontal position After moving the resource recovery pipe containing air into the vertical position while folding the bellows pipe and moving the resource recovery opening to a vertical position near the seabed or the bottom of the lake, the flexible riser The flexible flexible body having an opening which is movable in three dimensions including up and down from the floating body on the water surface via the metal wire etc. connected to the end is moved and the flexible means for recovery is moved by the display means The water surface in the central pipe is moved to the upper side from the water surface outside the central pipe by detecting the resources inside the housing and exhausting the air in the upper part of the inner penetrating member from the air discharge opening in the resource collection pipe. By moving the internal penetrating member to the upper part in the central pipe, the seawater or lake water is discharged from the water discharge opening to the outside of the resource recovery pipe and discharged from the water discharge opening by the water storage tank. When the water stored in the resource recovery pipe is gradually moved upward, and the seawater or lake water in the resource recovery pipe is circulated, the resource detected from the resource recovery opening can be removed. After being inserted into the resource recovery pipe through a flexible lyzer and closing and capturing the resource opening and closing means, the other end stretches the other flexible end of the bellows pipe and also recovers the resource. The tube is moved to a horizontal position again to recover the captured resources. A resource excavating means for excavating the seabed or lake bottom or river bottom, for example, by an electrical means, or a crusher crush means for crushing a clump is provided in the recovery flexible box near the sea floor or lake bottom. In addition, the resource excavating means or resource crushing means is hermetically enclosed in the flexible recovery case. In that case, for example, the recovery flexible casing is connected to the circular resource recovery pipe having a length of 10 km and a length via a flexible riser. In addition, an embodiment in which the circular resource recovery pipe is, for example, 1 km, and the remaining 9 km is a flexible riser and the recovery flexible frame is connected via the flexible riser is also feasible. is there.

   Before collection or mining, the floating body structure holds the resource recovery pipe in a horizontal position with water and air contained therein, and can be expanded and contracted by a bellows at the other end during collection or mining. On the other hand, the resource recovery pipe is moved to the vertical position so that the bellows pipe is folded and the resource recovery opening is moved to the bottom of the sea floor or near the bottom of the lake. Since the held portion of the central pipe is on one side, a water discharge opening is located on the water near the air discharge opening and the central portion. Thereafter, the flexible flexible body is connected to the other end of the flexible riser and moved from the floating body on the water surface through a metal wire or the like to a three-dimensional area including the upper and lower sides and having a downward flexible opening. The display means detects the resources in the flexible housing for recovery, and the air in the upper part of the inner penetrating member in the central pipe is exhausted from the air discharge opening by the air exhausting means for exhausting by the natural energy generating means. The inner penetrating member is moved to the upper part in the central pipe, and the water surface in the central pipe is moved to the upper part from the water surface outside the central pipe, whereby seawater or lake water is extracted from the resource recovery pipe from the water discharge opening. 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. 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 by the removable water storage tank, so there is no influence on the surrounding environment. After the captured resources are sufficiently accumulated and stored in the resource recovery pipe, the water discharge opening of the central pipe is closed before moving the resource recovery pipe to the horizontal position again, and the other end is completed. By moving the one bellows tube having a resource recovery opening at the rear end of the stretchable other part of the bellows and extending the bellows of the bellows tube again to a horizontal position by a chain to control the ballast water of the floating body structure The above-mentioned resource recovery pipe in which the floating body structure is sunk and the bellows are extended, while the air in the bellows tube and the resources stored in the accumulation and storage of the one bellows tube and the seawater or lake water are floated by floating on the seawater or lake water. Float on sea water or lake water to recover the resources. Since the air discharge opening and the water discharge opening of the central pipe are closed before moving the resource recovery pipe to the horizontal position again, there is no influence on the surrounding environment.

The fourth embodiment of the resource recovery method according to the present invention is a deep seabed or lake bottom embodiment, in which the floating structure incorporates water and air inside a resource recovery pipe before harvesting or mining. The first step of holding in the horizontal position, and the other end's bellows that can be expanded or contracted by the other end during collection or mining, fold the other bellows tube and combine the one bellows tube with the resource recovery opening near the seabed or lake bottom. Moving the resource recovery pipe to a vertical position for movement and positioning the water discharge opening near the air discharge opening and the central portion on the water; and at the other end of the flexible riser. A flexible flexible recovery body having an opening which is movable in three dimensions including up and down from the floating body connected on the water surface via a metal wire or the like is moved and the display means moves the flexible flexible recovery body inside the recovery flexible housing. Third step to detect resources The air in the upper part of the inner penetrating member is exhausted from the air discharge opening in the central pipe and the water surface in the central pipe is moved to a position above the water surface outside the central pipe to move the inner penetrating member in the central pipe. The resource detected by the display means is gradually moved by moving the water or lake water in the resource recovery pipe gradually to the top by moving it to the upper part and circulating the seawater or lake water in the resource recovery pipe. It is inserted into the resource recovery pipe from the resource recovery opening through the flexible riser and captures the resource in the recovery flexible housing and also seawater or lake water from the water recovery opening from the resource recovery pipe. After the fourth step of discharging to the outside and storing in the water storage tank, and 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 closing, the water discharge opening of the central tube is closed and the other end is stretchable, while the bellows of the bellows tube is extended and then the air discharge opening is closed and the resource recovery opening is provided at the end. The one bellows tube is moved to the horizontal position again by a chain and the ballast water of the floating body structure is controlled by sinking the floating body structure to extend the bellows, while the air of the bellows tube and the accumulation and storage of the one bellows tube Floating the resource recovery pipe in the state of floating the seawater or lake water by floating force with the resources and the seawater or lake water contained therein, and the fifth step, the circular resource recovery pipe capturing the resource And the sixth step of transferring the materials to the transfer site.

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A resource recovery pipe provided with a water discharge opening at the upper and lower portions of the water surface and an exhaust port at the upper end of the one end at the upper end of the water discharge opening and a resource recovery opening at the lower end of the other end to recover resources; a small internal penetrating member specific gravity inside a through the interior of the water surface closing the water discharge opening when to be the same as the water level outside the resource recovery pipe from water use tubes, other of the resource recovery pipe Three-dimensional including a flexible recovery pipe or flexible riser pipe connected to an end resource recovery opening and the other end of the flexible recovery pipe or flexible riser pipe from the floating body on the water surface comprising a recovery flexibility housing having a possible open downward movement, the water surface of the resource in the recovery pipe by evacuating from the top of the air the exhaust port of the internal through member in the resource recovery pipe the by moving the upper portion from the water surface outside the resource recovery pipe the internal transmural The section member by releasing seawater or lake water or Kawasui from the water discharge opening is moved to the top of the resource in the recovery pipe to the outside of the resource recovery pipe seawater or lake water or river of the resource in the collecting pipe water was removed to the head gradually through the flexible collection pipe or flexible riser pipe before Symbol recovery flexibility within the enclosure by circulating sea water or lake water or Kawasui of the resource in the collecting pipe recovering said resource extraction or in mined resource is collected or mined the resource recovery the resource recovery pipe from the opening to capture said resource Te water resource recovery apparatus according to claim. The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a filter at a lower part of the water discharge opening of the resource recovery pipe . The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein an imaging means and a light emitting means are provided inside the recovery flexible housing. The underwater resource recovery system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a digging device or a mining device inside the flexible recovery case. The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a floating body structure including a holding member for holding an upper portion of one end of the resource recovery pipe . And resource opening closing means for closing the resource collection apertures in the lower portion of the other end of the resource recovery pipe, comprising a tumbled want connected to the lower portion of the other end of the resource recovery pipe, the resource recovery pipe After the resources are collected or mined, the resource recovery opening is closed by the resource opening and closing means, and the resources are captured, the resource recovery pipe is floated through the bridge and floats with the floating structure. The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the resource recovery pipe is moved to recover the resource. The underwater resource recovery apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the floating body on the water surface comprises a winding reel for moving the recovery flexible casing in three dimensions.