Breaking Ice with a Jet of Gas (Razrushenie lda Reaktivnoi Gazovoi Struei)

Thermodynamic methods are currently being applied successfully in industry for breaking rocks. These same methods have been examined for breaking ice. However, for large scale operations the use of a gas jet does not appear promising because of the large amount of energy required to melt ice. (Autho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yakovelev,G. N.
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1973
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*ICE
*SEA ICE
MELTING
CUTTING
JET FLOW
REMOVAL
THERMODYNAMICS
DRILLING
USSR
TRANSLATIONS
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0768827
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0768827
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Summary:Thermodynamic methods are currently being applied successfully in industry for breaking rocks. These same methods have been examined for breaking ice. However, for large scale operations the use of a gas jet does not appear promising because of the large amount of energy required to melt ice. (Author) Draft trans. of Arktichesktii i Antarkticheskii Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Institut. Trudy (USSR) v300 p153-167 1971.

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