Implementation

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Implementation

• Bob Morse
• UW - Madison
• NSF IceCube Review
• Madison, October 2001

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Implementation

• (Multi-Taskforce
  Effort)
• Logistics - ICECUBE, ICDS,
  RPSC, NSF
• Drilling - ICDS, RPSC, NSF
• Deployment - ICECUBE, RPSC, ICDS
• Safety/Reliability - NSF, RPSC, ICECUBE, ICDS

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NSF TASKING ICECUBE management to
provide the Strategic Planning and Overall
Organization for the IMPLEMENTATION TASKFORCE
Members ICDS-UW, RPSC, and the NSF.
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ORGANIZATION Points of Contact
ICECUBE Bob Morse IceCube
Implementation ICDS Don
Lebar Project Manager Bruce Koci
Drilling engineer
Bob Oehlkers Drill Project Engineer
John Short Mobile
Drilling Structures
Evan Richards Safety/ Reliability
RPSC Eivind Jensen Principal
Contact Jeff
Thompson Network Engineering
Carlton Walker Construction
Terry Aldridge South
Pole Heavy Equipment
Teara Godfrey South Pole Cargo
John Feldman Safety
Lee Degalan Vessel
Cargo NSF
Erick Chiang Polar Logistics
Brian Stone
Jerry Marty
Harry Mahar Safety
NYANG Bill Nolin Airlift Cargo
Port Hueneme Lee Degalan
Vessel/Air Cargo
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ICECUBE Budget Profiles (Mega-Dollars) Year
FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 .
Total Holes 0 0 6
12 16 ..
80 -----------------------------------------------
-------------------------------- Project
23.9 30.0 35.4 32.8 25.0
209 ---------------------------------------
---------------------------------------- Logistics
.155 .200 .204 .209 .220
1.77 Drilling 5.14 .681
1.60 1.53 1.36
15.5 (develop) 5.10 .546 .822
0.0 6.41 Deployment
1.18 .486 1.02 1.24 1.20
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LOGISTICS November 1 -- Feb 15
Movement of
People, Cargo, and Fuel Personnel
Transport about 72 people/season,
support about 44 people
People On-Station Total

Scientists 13 39
Drillers
15 18
Deployers 16
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Cargo Over 8.8 million lbs of equipment and
fuel, or about 1.5 million lbs
each season.
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POPULATION
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Logistics Meetings (Fit, Lift, and Slide
Issues) Vessel
(RPSC, Lee Degalan)
Mobile Drilling Structures --MDS
--gt Meeting in Pt. Hueneme Dec 2001
Aircraft (NYANG, Bill Nolin,
John Short) --gt Meeting in Scotia,
NY, July 2001 South Pole
(RPSC, Aldridge, Godfrey)
Transport, and Assembly Equipment Impacts
--schedule of heavy equipment usage
--gt Meeting in Denver, April 2001
Special Cargo Items
Drill Hose-Winch, 60 K-lbs, Assembly on
Site Mobile
Drilling Structures
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Cargo Schedule --ROS Dates. Flight
Availability Load-leveling
Scheduling of
Cargo---Priority Cargo Build-up of the Drill
Camp Impacts on Heavy
Equipment (Forks, Cranes, Sleds, Caterpillers)
Propose Drill-Camp Build-Up near SPSM
Activity (minimize transit time of cranes, etc)
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LC-130 Flights
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• DRILLING The Enhanced Hot-Water Drill (EHWD)
• Hot-Water Drilling and Hole
  Logging
• Mission/Requirements
• To produce a production drill capable of
  drilling
• 16 holes per season
• 60 cm in diameter
• 2450 meters deep
• Drill time 35-40 hours
• Hole Quality
• straight within 1 meter, and they
• logged as a function of hole depth to within 0.5
  1.0 meters

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Hot-Water Drilling/Logging
Basic Principals
AMANDA Experience
fuel usage
time to completion
hole characteristics - logging
reliability of equipment
crew training
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Hot-Water Drilling
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Hotwater Drilling

• Experience with AMANDA 19 holes
• Upgradefrom 2 to?5 MW
• Projected time to 2450 m depth 40 h
• Diameter 60 cm
• Drill 2 holes per week 16 holes per season

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Amanda (3-reel) and ICECUBE (1-reel) Drill
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Drilling EvolutionAMANDA to ICECUBE
ITEM AMANDA ICECUBE TECHNOLOGY Heaters
15 36 same or similar Pre-Heaters
8 12 similar Pumps
3 4 similar Drill-heads
2 3
similar, upgraded better,
more reliable transducers Hose
1.5 2.5 New Hose-Winch
3 1 (large) New Control
System monitor SmartDrill
New software partial computer
Auto-pilot technology under
control development

Assembly stick-built modular
development plug-n-play

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Hot-Water Drilling A 5 Mwatt System Scaled-up
and Modular reconfiuration of the
AMANDA drilling system. 18-25 day set-up
period, 10 day build-down period 2450 meter
holes, 60 cm in diameter in 35-40 hours using
about 7000 gallons of fuel. Computer guided
Auto-pilot System to maximize drilling
efficiency, minimize fuel consumption ,
minimize drill-crew size, and driller fatigue.
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System ICECUBE AMANDA
Heat (Surface to 800 m) 5.0 MW
2.2 MW Heat In (at 2000 m) 5.0
MW 1.9 MW Heat Out (at 2000 m)
4.0 MW 1.6 MW Drill
Rate (2000 m) 1.5 2.0 m/min
0.5 m/min Flow Rate (2000 m)
200 gpm at 75C 85 gpm at
60C Time to 2400 m 35-40 hours
120-140 hours Fuel Consumption
200 gal/hour 85 gal/hour Weight
400,000 lbs 250,000
lbs Set-up Time 18-25 days
5-6 weeks Fuel (gal/hole) 7,000
- 8,000 10,000 - 12,000
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Drilling Meetings
Weekly ICECUBE/ICDS--RPSC Phone Conferences
NSF, RPSC July 14, 2000
RPSC April
24, 2001 NSF, RPSC
Aug 6-8, 2001 NSF, RPSC
Oct 5, 2001 NSF, RPSC
Oct 9, 2001 NSF,
RPSC Oct 12, 2001
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Status of Major Drill Components
Hose-Winch designed, bids in
place, bid award imminent
2.5" Hose
Specifications meet by two manufacturers
Tensile testsOK
to 18,000 lbs tension
Burst tests ---OK to 1000 psi, burst
at 3000psi
Heat conduction---0.4 watts/meter/C
Heating/Pumping Plant (MDS)
-electrical inspections
--PE sign-off -plumbing
inspections --PE sign-off
-mechanical inspections-- PE sign-off.
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Drill Milestones 65
Design Report April 13, 2001
Critical Design Review
November 15, 2001 Start Ordering
Components December 1, 2001
Integrate System, Test
Sept-Oct, 2002 Drill Crew
Training Sept-Oct, 2002
Ship Major Drill Components
December, 2002 System
Build-up at Pole Nov-Dec, 2003
Start Drilling Jan 2,
2004
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Drilling Milestones
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• Evolution to ICECUBE SMARTDRILL
• Computer modeling of AMANDA Drill Data
• Modeling of Future ICECUBE boreholes
• Fuel Consumption, Refreeze Rates, Time to
  Completion
• Finite-Element Computer Modeling of Bore-Holes

Objectives Holes of Uniform Diameter ---
Hole Quality Maximize Efficiency Reduce Fuel
Costs Maximize Drill Speeds Standardize and
Stabilize Drilling Operations Monitoring and
Error Alerting System, System Self-Protection Aut
o-Pilot Integrates Experiences of Smartest
Operators
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Crew Training Initial training-Initial Drill
Tests- Sept 02 Field-Season Training for FY-04
Sept 03 Emergency Assessment Training Emergency
Procedures Hose-Parting, Winch Failure, etc.
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• The FY-04 Season. Establish Drill Camp, Drill
  3-6 Holes
• Drill Camp Install (50-60 Days)
  Nov 5 Dec 30
• 600 K-lbs of cargo prioritized cargo lists
• Drill-Camp build-up RPSC heavy-equipment usage
• Requires 23 prompt flights, 15 RPSC flights
• Drilling / String Deployment (3 6 Strings)
  Jan 2 ---Jan 29
• 108 K-lbs of cargo delivered over 28 day
  period
• 336 K-lbs of fuel buffered by station supply
• 10 RPSC support flights (personnel, food, etc)
• Camp Demobilization Jan 30 Feb 8

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Drilling and Detector Deployment Schedule,
16-Hole Season Spole Station Opens Nov
1 Start Drill Set-up (18-25 days) Nov
4-5 Complete Set-up Nov 23-30 Start Drilling
(rate of 2 holes per week) Nov 26-31 Finish
Drilling and Deployment Jan 26-30 Start Drill
Build-down (7-10 days) Jan
27-31 Complete Drill Build-Down Feb 2
10 Spole Station Close Feb 15.
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Safety (Richards, Oehlkers, Feldman,
Mahar)
Design/Operations consistent with Safety
Standards OHSA, NFC,
NSF/Raytheon Codes
Identify All Systems
which require Emergency Shut-Off fuel
hot-water under pressure
moving machinery


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Reliability (Richards, Oehlkers, Koci)
Robustness of
Design--Redundancy Identify
Critical Systems Identify
Single-Point Failures, Choke-Points
Contingency/Recovery Plans

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Deploymentof String Time 10 min/sensor20
h/string
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Mechanical installation

• Identical to AMANDA

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Example AMANDAString 16deployment
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Drilling/Deployment Timeline
2 strings /week
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In-Door deployment
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Construction 11/03-1/09

• Start deploying 6 strings between Spase-2 and
  AMANDA,
• Then ccw each season.
• No interference with Spase-2 only in FY09
• Integration of AMANDA in FY05

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South Pole
Dark sector
Skiway
AMANDA
Dome
IceCube
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String design Surface cable and In-ice cable
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Surface cables In-Ice cables

• Surface cables are separate from the In-Ice
  cables
• ???Deployment of surface cables is decoupled from
  
• drilling and deployment timeline.
• ?? Trenching and deployment of surface cables can
• be done in November.
• ?? Avoid excess cable next to counting house.

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Improvements compared to AMANDA deployments

• New tower operations structure,
• Heated, used for drilling and deployment
• In-door deployment facilitates deployment
• Improve quality, no weather dependence
• Surface and down hole cable.
• Trenching and surface cable deployment decoupled
  from drilling cycle
• Personnel budget for deployment is robust.
• Based on experience with 19 strings

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