Development of Alternative Drive Concepts for Underground Hammer Drills in Deep Drilling Technology - Phase 2

It is known from flat drilling technology that crystalline hard rock can be destroyed much more effectively with percussion drill hammers than with PDC or roller bits. In granite, for example, up to 10 times higher drilling speeds can be achieved with hammer drills than with roller bits. In addition, the fact that only little pressure force is required for percussion drilling means that the directional stability of the drill hole is much better. However, up to now, the use of hammer drills in deep drilling technology has failed, because the available drive system (generation of the percussive impulse by alternately accelerating and stopping the column of mud) becomes more and more energy-intensive with increasing depth and thus ultimately uneconomical.
The idea of the project is therefore to develop a percussion drilling method for deep drilling, that generates the necessary impact energy for the hammer drill directly on site in the borehole and works with conventional drilling mud.

Based on the results of the feasibility study (733-1), in the second project phase at least one fully operational prototype of a percussion drilling system for use in deep drilling technology is to be developed, which can be operated on a test rig or in a test well.

Project completed.

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Lehmann, F.; Reich, M.: Development of alternative drive concepts for down-the-hole hammer in deep drilling, OMAE2015-41218, Presentation and Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2015, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, May 31 - June 5, 2015

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Lehmann, F.; Reich M.: Development of Alternative Drive Concepts for Downhole Hammers in Deep Drilling Operations - a feasibility Study, Oil Gas European Magazine, vol. 39, 3/2013, pp. OG 119 - OG 123, September 2013 or Erdöl Erdgas Kohle, 129th volume, vol. 9, pp. OG 119 - OG 123, September 2013

Lehmann, F.; Kirsten, U.; Schwarz, M.; Reich, M.: Entwicklung alternativer Antriebskonzepte für Untertagebohrhämmer in der Tiefbohrtechnik – eine Machbarkeitsstudie, DGMK/ÖGEW-Frühjahrstagung 2013-1 (Präsentation and Manuskript), 18.-19. April, 2013. ISBN 978-3-941721-31-9

Lehmann, F.; Kirsten, U.; Mandel, K.; Konieczny, T.: „Experimentelle Untersuchung der Wirkmechanismen der schlagenden Gesteinszerstörung zur Beschreibung des Bohrens im Hartgestein“, Plenarvortrag und Tagungsbericht zum 4. Internationalen Kolloquium zur sprengstofflosen Gesteinsgewinnung, Freiberg, 14. – 16. November 2012

Lehmann, F.; Kirsten, U.; Reich, M.: "Requirements for materials for percussive drilling in hard rock", plenary lecture at the Freiberg High Pressure Symposium 08-10 October 2012

Lehmann, F.; Kirsten, U.; Mande,l K.; Reich, M.; Krüger, L.: „Untersuchung der Mechanismen bei der schlagenden Gesteinszerstörung und Vergleich mit Versuchen an einem Laborversuchsstand“, Plenarvortrag und Tagungsbericht zur DGMK/ÖGEW-Frühjahrstagung 2012, Fachbereich Aufsuchung und Gewinnung am 19.-20.04.2012 in Celle, DGMK-Tagungsbericht 2012-2, ISBN 978-3-941721-25-8