Thermal Spallation Drilling - an Alternative Drilling Technology for Hard Rock Drilling

Kant, MA; Meier, T; Rossi, E; Schuler, M; Becker, D; Hoser, D; Von Rohr, PR

Von Rohr, PR (reprint author), ETH, Inst Proc Engn, Zurich, Switzerland.

OIL GAS-EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, 2017; 43 (1): OG23

Abstract

Thermal Spallation Drilling (TSD) is an alternative rock reduction technology, where a flame jet locally destructs the rock surface. The technology ha......

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