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Although these guidelines will be developed in the context of the Chatham deep sea mining project, they will be useful in the much broader context of marine mining and dredging for marine infrastructure development. This implies that, besides relevant for the TKI Delta Technology, the envisaged results of this project are also relevant for the TKI ‘Maritiem - Winnen op zee’. In case of positive results, it is likely that the PPS will be continued (see also ‘valorisation’).

Planning

The projected principle part of the project started January 2017. 

The first phase of laboratory analysis of mine tailing behavior is expected to be finished in April. The second phase to asses the effect of flocculants will start during phase 1 and rounded off in June (indication). Lastly the modeling and finalizing the report in planned in June and July.

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