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EHWD Technical and Operations Manual with appendices.pdf
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  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Hot Water Drilling 1-1
Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 1: INTRODUCTION TO HOT WATER DRILLING 1.1 Introduction: Hot water drilling is used in situations where access holes in ice are required in very quick time.
  • Due to
the fact that a given volume of ice will result in a smaller volume of water when it is melted (as shown in Figure 1.1), the volume of water pumped back out of the hole can only be about 90% of the water deposited.
  • Over time this causes the surrounding ice to melt and results in a
reservoir of water.
  • The heaters are scaled to provide the required water temperature rise at the
required flow rate.
  • If this
drill head is a larger diameter th...
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