METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF GAS HYDRATES AND SUBMARINE COMBINE FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC E21C50/00 

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: method comprises mechanical destruction of seafloor layer by an stripping knife moving along the seafloor, and transportation of destruction products to the surface. The products of destruction are placed in elastic, gas-tight shells, which are collected along the surface and transported them to the place of use in the transportation vessel refrigerators. The combine is a moving platform with a knife for seafloor cleaning with the mounted video camera and the stripping knife under the hole in the platform designed as a horizontally rotating cylinder with the scrapers mounted on it. The platform has two mounted cylinders, the first is a container with shells located horizontally one above another one, and the second one, mounted above the hole, is a loading container in the top side of which the segments with drive mechanisms shifting them from the cylinder axis are located.

EFFECT: improvement of efficiency of ocean production of gas hydrates.

4 cl, 2 dwg