Description of A BHM Tool
The tool consists of at least two concentric pipes which are forming two hydraulic channels - one for pumping down a high-pressure working agent (water) and second for delivering pregnant slurry back to the surface. A BHM tool usually has (down-up): an eductor (waterjet pump) section, a hydromonitor section, an extension section and a hub, connecting it all to a drill pipe string. This string extends the tool up to the surface. Above the surface, the tool has a swivel allowing its suspension and rotation in a hole, and also connections to the working agent supply (pump station) and a slurry collector. A drill rig is normally required to operate a BHM tool.
The tool is lowered into a well until the hydromonitor reaches the required depth where the actual borehole mining is started. Then the high-pressure water is pumped down and receives back productive slurry. In the collecting pond or tank, slurry is separated and clarified water is pumped down for re-circulating.
While extracting of material, different shape underground caverns could be created. Their shapes depend on the BHM tool manipulation while mining, which obviously consist of the tool rotation, sliding it up and down and combination of these two movements. Borehole mining is applied from vertical, horizontal and deviated wells.
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