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Blue Nodules SIGNED

Breakthrough Solutions for the Sustainable Harvesting and Processing of Deep Sea Polymetallic Nodules

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Project "Blue Nodules" data sheet

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Coordinator	IHC MINING BV Organization address address: MOLENDIJK 94 city: SLIEDRECHT postcode: 3361 EP website: www.ihcmerwede.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Netherlands [NL]
Project website	http://www.blue-nodules.eu
Total cost	7˙991˙137 €
EC max contribution	7˙991˙137 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.3.5.3. (Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials)
Code Call	H2020-SC5-2015-one-stage
Funding Scheme	RIA
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-02-01 to 2020-07-31

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	IHC MINING BV IHC MINING BV Organization address address: MOLENDIJK 94 city: SLIEDRECHT postcode: 3361 EP website: www.ihcmerwede.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (SLIEDRECHT)	coordinator	2˙022˙440.00
2	STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN Organization address address: WINTHONTLAAN 2 city: UTRECHT postcode: 3526 KV website: www.fom.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (UTRECHT)	participant	1˙271˙442.00
3	DREDGING INTERNATIONAL NV DREDGING INTERNATIONAL NV Organization address address: SCHELDEDIJK 30, HAVEN 1025 city: ZWIJNDRECHT postcode: 2070 website: www.dredging.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (ZWIJNDRECHT)	participant	982˙250.00
4	IHC MTI BV IHC MTI BV Organization address address: SMITWEG 6 city: KINDERDIJK postcode: 2961 AW website: www.mtiholland.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (KINDERDIJK)	participant	839˙375.00
5	RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Organization address address: TEMPLERGRABEN 55 city: AACHEN postcode: 52062 website: www.rwth-aachen.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (AACHEN)	participant	575˙675.00
6	GLOBAL SEA MINERAL RESOURCES GLOBAL SEA MINERAL RESOURCES Organization address address: SLIJKENSESTEENWEG 2 city: OOSTENDE postcode: 8400 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (OOSTENDE)	participant	455˙812.00
7	CONTITECH RUBBER INDUSTRIAL KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG CONTITECH RUBBER INDUSTRIAL KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG Organization address address: BUDAPESTI U 10 city: SZEGED postcode: 6728 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	HU (SZEGED)	participant	443˙800.00
8	UNIRESEARCH BV UNIRESEARCH BV Organization address address: ELEKTRONICAWEG 16 city: DELFT postcode: 2628XG website: www.uniresearch.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (DELFT)	participant	315˙281.00
9	DE REGT MARINE CABLES BV DE REGT MARINE CABLES BV Organization address address: ZAAG 2 city: KRIMPEN AAN DE LEK postcode: 2931 LD website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (KRIMPEN AAN DE LEK)	participant	307˙937.00
10	SEASCAPE CONSULTANTS LTD SEASCAPE CONSULTANTS LTD Organization address address: BELBINS VALLEY BELBINS city: ROMSEY HAMPSHIRE postcode: SO51 0PE website: www.seascapeconsultants.co.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (ROMSEY HAMPSHIRE)	participant	188˙603.00
11	NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU Organization address address: HOGSKOLERINGEN 1 city: TRONDHEIM postcode: 7491 website: www.ntnu.no contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NO (TRONDHEIM)	participant	179˙786.00
12	AARHUS UNIVERSITET AARHUS UNIVERSITET Organization address address: NORDRE RINGGADE 1 city: AARHUS C postcode: 8000 website: www.au.dk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DK (AARHUS C)	participant	170˙968.00
13	BUREAU VERITAS MARINE & OFFSHORE REGISTRE INTERNATIONAL DE CLASSIFICATION DE NAVIRES ET DE PLATEFORMES OFFSHORE BUREAU VERITAS MARINE & OFFSHORE REGISTRE INTERNATIONAL DE CLASSIFICATION DE NAVIRES ET DE PLATEFORMES OFFSHORE Organization address address: 8 COURS DU TRIANGLE city: PUTEAUX postcode: 92800 website: www.bureauveritas.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PUTEAUX)	participant	128˙922.00
14	UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA Organization address address: CALLE JORDI GIRONA 31 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8034 website: www.upc.edu contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (BARCELONA)	participant	102˙500.00
15	BUREAU VERITAS - REGISTRE INTERNATIONAL DE CLASSIFICATION DE NAVIRES ET D'AERONEFS BUREAU VERITAS - REGISTRE INTERNATIONAL DE CLASSIFICATION DE NAVIRES ET D'AERONEFS Organization address address: BOULEVARD DU CHATEAU 67-71 city: NEUILLY SUR SEINE postcode: 92200 website: www.bureauveritas.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (NEUILLY SUR SEINE)	participant	6˙342.00
16	STICHTING NIOZ, KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR ONDERZOEK DER ZEE STICHTING NIOZ, KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR ONDERZOEK DER ZEE Organization address address: LANDSDIEP 4 city: DEN HOORN TEXEL postcode: 1797 SZ website: www.nioz.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (DEN HOORN TEXEL)	participant	0.00

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Project objective

A key EU policy aims to reduce the Union dependency on raw materials imports, in particular (candidate) Critical Raw Materials that are vital for the EU innovative technologies. Topic SC5-11c-2015 scope focuses on “developing new highly-automated technological sustainable solutions for deep mining … in the sea bed combined with in-situ processing of minerals”. An existing but challenging raw material resource concerns polymetallic nodules. These round to elongated concretions of 1–15 cm diameter form on sediment-covered deep-sea plains in all oceans between 4-6000m water depth. The challenge to harvest and transport the nodules to the EU shore is taken on by Blue Nodules. The governing project principle is: industrial viability within the context of a realistic and technical, economic and environmentally balanced business case for the complete Polymetallic Nodules value chain of mining, processing and valorisation. Blue Nodules will develop and test to TRL6 maturity a new highly-automated and technologically sustainable deep sea mining system. Key features are: an annual production capability of 2 Million Tons nodules in water depths up to 6000m, in-situ processing of the nodules and intrinsic safe working conditions. Technical WPs are dedicated to subsea harvesting equipment & control technology, in-situ seafloor processing of polymetallic nodules and sea surface, land operations & processes. A dedicated WP focuses on environmental issues and on an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). A WP setting requirements and assessing the developed technology controls the entire work plan structure. High credibility is obtained by linking the project work to a nodule field licence owned by a project partner and located in the most promising known nodule deposit: the Clarion Clipperton Zone. The project consortium contains 14 leading industry and research partners from 9 EU member states. The project duration is 48 months, the required funding amounts to 8 Million.

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Report Rules and regulations	Documents, reports	2020-02-27 11:31:31
Report describing the process flow overview	Documents, reports	2020-02-27 11:31:31
Report on environmental pressures arising from maritime operations	Documents, reports	2020-02-27 11:31:31
Final release of the Terms of Reference report to be used in WP1-5	Documents, reports	2020-02-27 11:31:31
Report on inventory of environmental pressures	Documents, reports	2020-02-27 11:31:30
Nodule Cracker Tool	Documents, reports	2020-02-27 11:31:30
Website, templates and general flyer	Documents, reports	2020-02-27 11:31:31
Initial design of vehicle propulsion and propulsion test performance	Documents, reports	2020-02-27 11:31:30

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of Blue Nodules deliverables.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	J.M. van Wijk, S. Haalboom, E. de Hoog, H. de Stigter, M.G. Smit Impact fragmentation of polymetallic nodules under deep ocean pressure conditions published pages: 250-260, ISSN: 0892-6875, DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2019.02.015	Minerals Engineering 134	2020-02-27
2017	Jort M. van Wijk THE INFLUENCE OF NODULE DEGRADATION ON THE VERTICAL HYDRAULIC TRANSPORT OF MANGANESE NODULES published pages: , ISSN: 0867-7964, DOI:	18th International Conference on the Transport and Sedimentation of Solid Particles 29-06-2017	2020-02-27
2017	Edwin de Hoog, Maarten in â€™t Veld, Jort van Wijk and Arno Talmon AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY INTO FLOW ASSURANCE OF COARSE INCLINED SLURRIES published pages: , ISSN: 0867-7964, DOI:	18th International Conference on the Transport and Sedimentation of Solid Particles 11-15 September 2017	2020-02-27

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