在南海北部湾使用的海底输油软管

在南海北部湾，使用海底输油软管和可移动的生产钻井装置进行边际油田的滚动开发已经成为现实，自１９８９年第一条海底输油软管投入使用以来，输油软管已正常输送原油最长达５年的时间。本文将着重介绍软管的设计，选型和安装上的一些要点，这些作法或许值得今后类似的项目参考。     

流体阻力对软管空间平衡形态的影响

深海采矿系统中的一个关键环节是连接中继舱和集矿机的软管。软管空间形态的非线性分析是一个复杂的问题。本文采用荷载增量法与牛顿一拉夫逊相结合的方法研究了软管在稳定水流作用下位移的反应,利用非线性有限元理论与Morison流体阻力计算公式分析了流体阻力对软管空间形态的影响。该计算模型可为软管输送性能的设计提供理论参考依据。     

大洋采矿输送软管动力特性的数值研究

在大量勘探数据的基础上，对中国东太平洋7．5万km^2矿区采矿环境进行研究，得出集矿机是否安全行驶，直接关系着大洋采矿的成败。影响集矿机行驶的因素很多，其中输送软管是重要因素之一。通过理论分析计算和小型模拟实验相结合的研究方法，进行了软管与集矿机受力分析与仿真计算研究，开发了相应的应用软件。总结了大洋采矿系统中输送软管动态特性数值研究的最新研究成果，对我国大洋多金属结核矿产资源的开发，深海采矿系统的设计和回采策略的制定有一定的参考价值和实用意义。     

拉伸与扭转载荷作用下LNG低温复合软管的力学性能研究

LNG低温复合软管结构复杂,且在运行时受风、浪、流等多种载荷联合作用,其在超低温环境下的力学性能直接关系到其能否安全运行。首先参考江苏某软管公司生产的4英寸LNG低温复合软管,建立软管精细化有限元模型,接着对软管在拉伸、扭转两种轴对称载荷作用下的力学性能进行研究,最后就软管结构尺寸对其力学性能的影响展开分析。结果表明：在拉伸及扭转载荷作用下,不同层芳纶布以及同层芳纶布不同材料主方向在对应波峰、波谷处的受力情况不同。芳纶布铺设角度、芳纶布铺设层数、钢丝螺距以及钢丝直径对复合软管力学性能影响显著,分析相应的灵敏度规律从而对结构尺寸做出调整。研究成果可以为LNG低温复合软管的结构设计提供参考。     

管道内流对深海采矿系统软管空间形态影响

深海采矿系统中的软管段是连接中继仓和集矿车必不可少的环节。因受力学特性、海底地形及回采工艺等多种约束条件的作用,其空间形态复杂,对输送工艺和参数匹配要求比较苛刻。基于深海采矿软管输送模拟试验系统,分析了不同工况条件下软管形态动态变化特征及其规律,其结果表明:软管空间形态影响因素主要有集矿车移动距离、内流流速和内流密度,其中,当拱顶高度不受水面高度限制时,集矿车自由移动距离增大和内流流速增加均使软管角度呈线性增长趋势;而当内流为浆体时,软管形态变化趋势与清水内流一致,但软管隆起幅度较小,主要是因为浆体密度远大于清水密度,单位流体重力增幅大于流体向上冲力的增幅,且两侧下垂更加明显。通过研究软管形态变化规律及内在机理,为深海采矿系统输送参数优化及匹配提供研究基础。     

深水新型水下立管支撑平台研究

FPSO系统在深海海洋油气资源开发中扮演着重要的角色,而深水FPSO系统水下立管管路较长,立管整体重量较大,立管在水流作用下产生的涡激振动也较强,这些将给FPSO主船体带来严重的稳性、强度及疲劳问题。鉴于此,深海FPSO系统在油气资源开发过程中,须在水下一定深度设置若干水下软管支撑浮体,用以支撑来自深海海底的管线,减轻深水立管对FPSO的负载作用。随着深海资源开发的深入发展,传统水下软管支撑浮体作为FPSO系统的关键装备已经无法满足深海开采的需求,寻求大型化、深海化、生命周期长久化的新型水下立管支撑平台迫在眉睫,设计简便快捷、低风险的安装方法成为其开发过程中的重点和难点。详细描述了水下软管支撑浮体的产生及其发展历程,针对深海开发的需求提出了新型立管支撑平台的新概念,着重对新概念下下水安装更便捷的耐压立管支撑平台设计原理及其下水安装方式展开了分析,最后对水下软管支撑浮体和新型立管支撑平台的关键技术进行了总结,并提出了需进一步解决的问题。     

海底水力冲射开沟机械的主要参数确定

本文探讨了海底水力冲射开沟机械总体设计主要参数的计算方法及确定原则。基中包括作业水深，挖掘射水压力、流量，气举排泥风压、风量，水举排泥射冲射泵面积比，喷头的直径与数量，脐带软管直径，排泥角，主跨度，橇板尺度，开沟速度，牵引力和整机重量等。     

考虑轴向荷载和外压影响的非黏结柔性管道骨架层失效分析

非黏结柔性管道骨架层由不锈钢材料互锁缠绕而成,主要用于抵抗外压防止软管发生压溃失效.骨架层失效是柔性软管故障的最大风险,骨架层失效模式主要分为压溃失效和拉伸失效.采用非线性有限元方法并且考虑几何大变形、材料非线性、接触和摩擦等非线性效应的影响,对"S"型骨架层结构建立三维有限元模型,进行了单外压作用下的压溃失效分析和单一轴向拉力作用下的拉伸失效分析,而后开展轴向拉力和外压载荷组合作用下骨架层压溃失效分析.结果表明轴向拉力会一定程度上降低骨架层压溃承载力,相关结论可以为柔性软管结构设计和完整性评价提供参考.     

海底矿石软管中水力输送数值模拟研究

海底矿石在软管中的水力输送是深海采矿的重要过程。采用计算流体动力学—离散元耦合的计算方法（CFD-DEM）,对矿石颗粒在软管中的输送进行数值模拟,重点关注矿石颗粒的运动、分布规律以及管壁受到的颗粒作用力,分析输送速度和输送浓度（入射颗粒的体积分数）对输送过程的影响规律,探索管道中易发生堵塞、易受颗粒磨损的区域。结果表明,软管中颗粒的动力学特性与管道倾角、输送速度和输送浓度有关。颗粒主要沿管道截面底部推移,倾角较大的上升段出现处于悬移状态的颗粒;管道横截面内颗粒运动速度从上至下递减,截面中心处颗粒的速度接近输送速度。输送过程中颗粒的局部浓度（该区域颗粒与固液两相流的体积比）始终大于输送浓度,局部平均速度始终小于输送速度。上升段颗粒体积分数大于下降段,颗粒速度小于下降段。管道拱顶和谷底位置管壁所受颗粒作用力最明显,管壁最可能受颗粒磨损。     

基于AquaBuOY波能转换器的技术特性研究

文章描述了IPS浮标和瑞典软管泵技术结合的AquaBuOY点吸式波能转换器结构的设计理念和性能模拟,计算了用于准确地预报近海发电厂性能参数和经济学的AquaBuOY临界特性,并略述了马考湾(Makah Bay)近海示范发电厂的经验和数据结果.     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

Assessing the Validity of Seismo-Acoustic Predictor Equations for Obtaining Seabed and Sub-Surface Sediment Physical Properties

The interdependence between the seismo-acoustic properties of a marine sediment and its geotechnical/physical parameters has been known for many years, and it has been postulated that this should allow the extraction of geotechnical information from seismic data. Though in the literature many correlations have been published for the surficial layer, there is a lack of information for greater sediment depths. In this article, a desktop study on a synthetic seafloor model illustrates how the application of published near-surface prediction equations to subsurface sediments (up to several tens of meters burial depth) can lead to spurious predictions. To test this further, acoustic and geotechnical properties were measured on a number of sediment core samples, some of which were subjected to loading in acoustically-equipped consolidation cells (oedometers) to simulate greater burial depth conditions. For low effective pressures (representing small burial depths extending to around 10 meters subsurface), the general applicability of established relationships was confirmed: the prediction of porosity, bulk density, and mean grain size from acoustic velocity and impedance appears generally possible for the investigated sedimentary environments. As effective pressure increases through, the observed relationships deviate more and more from the established ones for the near-surface area. For the samples tested in this study, in some instances increasing pressure even resulted in decreasing velocities. There are several possible explanations for this abnormal behavior, including the presence of gas, overconsolidation, or bimodal grain size distribution. The results indicate that an appropriate depth correction must be introduced into the published prediction equations in order to obtain reliable estimates of physical sediment properties for greater subsurface depths.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Interannual Sea Level Variations and Annual Tides in the Northwestern Pacific

Specific properties of the interannual sea level variations and annual tides in the Northwestern Pacific were studied. Several tide stations were monitored. The monthly mean sea level for the year of 1995 was analyzed at each tide station. A seismic event in 1995, some tectonic activity around the subject area, and the Kuroshio (the oceanic western boundary current) may possibly contaminate results which would have occurred from the astronomical annual tide alone.     

《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》Vol. 33(2014) contents

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