Project duration: 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2021
Objective
Increasing the effectiveness of exploration for mineral resources is vital to meet future societal, economic and environmental challenges. This means that innovative solutions to exploration are needed. Effective exploration drilling for mineral resources is an area where industrial innovation plays an important role. Measurements-while-drilling, data acquisition and next generation logging sondes represent three important areas that need development in the mineral exploration sector. Despite this need, there is a complete lack of test beds that allow the industry to actively test novel drilling equipment. This greatly limits the development and implementation of equipment with technology that has been proven but does not yet fulfil the requirements of a product on the commercial market. Although a variety of test sites exist throughout Europe, they are constrained to already existing infrastructure, which severely limits the clients and users to pre-existing conditions that may not fit their purpose.
The solution (technology)
The Innovative Exploration Drilling and Data Acquisition Test Center (I-EDDA-TC) will provide a unique environment for the development of drilling, and related, equipment used for the exploration of mineral resources. The unique aspect of I-EDDA-TC lies in the possibility for clients and users to test their equipment in an active drilling setting, and at the conditions they desire. Accessibility to the I-EDDA-TC requires a small effort for clients since the site will be ready for business.
Partnership
- Uppsala Universitet (Uppsala University), Sweden (Lead Partner)
- Epiroc Rock Drills AB, Sweden
- Helmholtz- Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Germany
- LTU Business AB, Sweden
- Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden
- Lund University, Sweden
- RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Sweden
- Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germany
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