dumont d’urville
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Concordia Station. McMurdo. Concordia Station Dome C. Mid Point. D-85. Mario Zucchelli Station Baia Terra Nova. C-3. D-10. Dumont d’Urville. A Typical Calendar for Expeditions. 30/11-03/12. 31/12-03/01. 29/01-31/01. Personnel transportation. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Dumont d’Urville
Concordia StationDome C
Mario ZucchelliStation
Baia Terra Nova
McMurdo
Mid Point
D-85
D-10C-3
Concordia Station
A Typical Calendarfor Expeditions
30/11-03/12 31/12-03/01 29/01-31/01
Personnel transportation
Personnel is transferred to Dome C by Twin Otter flights.Only special materials and equipments which couldn’t stand low temperature or vibrations are allowed to be send to CHCH by commercial ship (there are 3 scheduled ships departing from August to October) and in connection with Hercules flights or Italica Ship to be delivered to MZS and, then, to DomeC by Twin Otter. Each special delivery should be authorized by each polar Institute, enquiring with weight and boxes dimensions.
• From DDU, situated on an island (in Figure), materials are transferred to CAP Prud' Homme Station (CPH), site on the Antarctic continent from which the French Traverse (RAID) departs.
• Because of site shape, the Astrolabe ship can’t arrive directly to CPH, so that materials have to be transferred from DDU to CPH:
• - during the summer by helicopter; • - in January there is the possibility to
use a barge, but such opportunity remains function of the marine ice and meteorological condition;
• - during the winter it is hauled on ice.• The accessibility to DDU is function of
weather conditions too.• Each RAID is made up of a certain
number of tractors and trailers, to transport packed into container or unpacked materials (RAID composition type in Figure).
MATERIAL TRANSPORTATION
DDU
CPH
30/11-03/12
31/12-03/0129/01-31/01
Last Summer CampaignPersonnel during Summer
Last Summer Campaign
Clean Area
Concordia
Summer camp
Obs. Geomagnetism
Vaisala weather station
Seismology
Astroconcordia
Dome C
1.050m
Glaciology
Shelter HF
The Camp
Epica lab.
33 m (83mq) disassembled
Summer Camp
Power Generator: 1.400 sq buildings 57 beds max
Garage tent
Storages tents
Main building
Dormitory tents
Drilling tent
Labs
Concordia Station
workshops
Storages sport room
Kitchen dining room
Medical
Bedrooms
Laboratories radio room
Main Buildings
Noisy
Calm
Concordia Station
Inside the buildings
workshops
Storages sports room
Kitchen
dining room
Medical
Bedrooms
Laboratories radio room
Noisy
Calm
Atmospheric chemmistry lab
Glaciology lab Sismology lab
Astronomy lab
Medical Bedrooms
Leaving room
Kitchen Video room
Sport roomWorkshop
Power station
The main parameter for the power station was efficiency to reduce the fuel consumption, aimed both to minimize environmental impact and costs.
It is made up of 3 Diesel generators adapted to the particular conditions of the air in DomeC.
Each Generator can deliver 125 kW at full load and the system is a co generator one that lets the recovering of waste heat both from exhaust air and from the cooling jacket water (for a total amount of around 80%).
For safety reasons, there is also an emergency diesel generator inside the noisy building.
Power supplyed in kW
Hours gen. N 1 400Hours gen. N 2 486Hours gen. N 3 1474Hours emergency gen. 15
Average KW Max KW Min KW85 135 60
Lit/week Lit/day4257 608
The Power station
during the last summer campaign
Fuel consumption
During the last summer campaign the total ammount of power supplyed outside the station for research activities was 37 kW; it was delivered by sylicon cables on wooden pylons.
Activity Sect.
To collect grey and black water the station is equipped with a vacuum system that lets a reduction of 80% of water consumption referred to traditional ones.Wastewaters are later treated by a reverse osmosis system developed in cooperation with ESA (EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY).
Waste water treatment
Water production and water recycling
Glaciology
Geomagnetism
Weather station
Refuelling
Geomagnetism
Snow drawing
Gray water mud
Astronomic site
32 m
Tower
Atmospheric chemistry:
Research activities Seismology
Glaciology
Geomagnetism
Weather station
Refuelling
Geomagnetism
Snow drawing
Gray water mud
Astronomic site
32 m
Tower
Clean air area
Atmospheric chemistry:
The idea for the futureSeismology
Astronomic sector
Astronomic site
COCHISE
3,5 m4,2 m
20 m
Some laboratoryes were disassembled in order to use the modular panels to built a structure to support the research acrtivities.
Telecommunications
-2 Inmarsat Standard B-2 Inmarsat Fleet77-4 fax-2 Iridium -2 Iridium (mobile)-2 Standard C-1 SAE IPX 300 Full (with 6 wifi access point)
-1 HF Rode&Swartz, 150 W-2 marine VHF;-2 avio VHF -1 HF Motorola Micom2,125 W;-1 VHF marine Motorola MC900
Outside the Station:1 Inmarsat Standard B 1 Inmarsat Fleet
Inside the Station 1 Inmarsat Standard B 1 Inmarsat Fleet
Radio RoomInside the station the local area network is made up by a pysical part (the plugs in each room connected to a rack for each level) and an Active part (a switch at each level connected by fibber optic to the Main Switch, that is the center of the system, settled in the radio room).The connection runs at 1 Gbps
Fibber optic cable
Switch Ethernet -Enterasys 24 plugs Rj45 10/100 Mb/s
Center switch
Emergency Radio room
- 1 inmarsat Standard C- 1 Iridium- 1 WiFi connection
Glaciology
Geomagnetism
Weather station
Refuelling
Geomagnetism
Snow drawing
Gray water mud
Astronomic site
32 m
Tower
Atmospheric chemistry:
Data connection Seismology
fibber optic;1WiFi (bakeup connection) 54Mbit/sec
1WiFi 54Mbit/sec
1WiFi 54Mbit/sec
1 WiFi 54Mbit/sec1 WiFi 54Mbit/sec
1 Cable connection;1 Radiomodem
1WiFi 54Mbit/sec
1WiFi 54Mbit/sec
- fibber Optic
ASTROCONCORDIA:
BRAIN:
Thanks for attention