Concordia Station
McMurdo
Mid Point
Concordia Station
Dome C
D-85
Mario Zucchelli
Station
Baia Terra Nova
C-3
D-10
Dumont d’Urville
A Typical Calendar
for Expeditions
30/11-03/12
31/12-03/01
29/01-31/01
Personnel transportation
Personnel is transferred to Dome C by Twin Otter flights.
Only special materials and equipments which couldn’t stand low temperature or
vibrations are allowed to be send to CHCH by commercial ship (there are 3
scheduled ships departing from August to October) and in connection with
Hercules flights or Italica Ship to be delivered to MZS and, then, to DomeC by
Twin Otter. Each special delivery should be authorized by each polar Institute,
enquiring with weight and boxes dimensions.
MATERIAL TRANSPORTATION
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DDU
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CPH
30/11-03/12
31/12-03/01
29/01-31/01
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From DDU, situated on an island (in
Figure), materials are transferred to
CAP Prud' Homme Station (CPH), site
on the Antarctic continent from which
the French Traverse (RAID) departs.
Because of site shape, the Astrolabe
ship can’t arrive directly to CPH, so that
materials have to be transferred from
DDU to CPH:
- during the summer by helicopter;
- in January there is the possibility to
use a barge, but such opportunity
remains function of the marine ice and
meteorological condition;
- during the winter it is hauled on ice.
The accessibility to DDU is function of
weather conditions too.
Each RAID is made up of a certain
number of tractors and trailers, to
transport packed into container or
unpacked materials (RAID composition
type in Figure).
Last Summer Campaign
Personnel during Summer
Last Summer Campaign
SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL
350
300
250
200
PERSONNEL
150
100
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Dome C
Seismology
Vaisala weather
station
Geomagnetism
Obs.
Summer camp
Glaciology
Astroconcordia
Concordia
Shelter HF
Clean
Area
The Camp
Epica lab.
33 m (83mq) disassembled
Summer Camp
Power Generator:
1.400 sq buildings
57 beds max
Main building
Drilling tent
Dormitory tents
Labs
Garage tent
Storages tents
Concordia Station
Concordia Station
Main Buildings
Laboratories
radio room
Kitchen
dining
room
Storages
sport room
Bedrooms
Medical
workshops
Calm
Noisy
Inside the
buildings
Laboratories
radio room
Kitchen
dining room
Bedrooms
Storages
sports room
Medical
Calm
workshops
Noisy
Astronomy lab
Glaciology lab
Atmospheric
chemmistry lab
Sismology lab
Medical
Bedrooms
Leaving room
Kitchen
Video room
Sport room
Workshop
Power station
The main parameter for the
power station was efficiency to
reduce the fuel consumption,
aimed both to minimize
environmental impact and costs.
It is made up of 3 Diesel
generators adapted to the
particular conditions of the air in
DomeC.
Each Generator can deliver 125
kW at full load and the system is
a co generator one that lets the
recovering of waste heat both
from exhaust air and from the
cooling jacket water (for a total
amount of around 80%).
For safety reasons, there is also
an emergency diesel generator
inside the noisy building.
The Power station
during the last summer campaign
Hours
Hours
Hours
Hours
gen. N 1
gen. N 2
gen. N 3
emergency gen.
400
486
1474
15
Power supplyed in kW
Average KW
85
Max KW
135
Min KW
60
Fuel consumption
Lit/week
4257
Lit/day
608
Activity
During the last summer
campaign the total ammount of
power supplyed outside the
station for research activities was
37 kW; it was delivered by
sylicon cables on wooden pylons.
Sect.
Waste water treatment
To collect grey and black water
the station is equipped with a
vacuum system that lets a
reduction of 80% of water
consumption referred to
traditional ones.
Wastewaters are later treated by a
reverse osmosis system
developed in cooperation with
ESA (EUROPEAN SPACE
AGENCY).
Water production and water
recycling
Seismology
Research activities
Weather station
Geomagnetism
Geomagnetism
Atmospheric
chemistry:
Glaciology
Refuelling
Astronomic site
Gray
water
mud
Snow drawing
32 m
Tower
Seismology
The idea for the future
Weather station
Geomagnetism
Atmospheric
chemistry:
Geomagnetism
Glaciology
Clean air area
Refuelling
Astronomic site
Gray
water
mud
Astronomic sector
Snow drawing
32 m
Tower
Astronomic site
COCHISE
20 m
3,5 m
4,2 m
Some laboratoryes were
disassembled in order to use
the modular panels to built a
structure to support the
research acrtivities.
Telecommunications
Outside the Station:
1 Inmarsat Standard B
1 Inmarsat Fleet
-2 Inmarsat Standard B
-2 Inmarsat Fleet77
-4 fax
-2 Iridium
-2 Iridium (mobile)
-2 Standard C
-1 SAE IPX 300 Full (with 6 wifi
access point)
-1 HF Rode&Swartz, 150 W
-2 marine VHF;
-2 avio VHF
-1 HF Motorola Micom2,125 W;
-1 VHF marine Motorola MC900
Inside the Station
1 Inmarsat Standard B
1 Inmarsat Fleet
Radio Room
Inside the station the local area network is made up by
a pysical part (the plugs in each room connected to a
rack for each level) and an Active part (a switch at each
level connected by fibber optic to the Main Switch, that
is the center of the system, settled in the radio room).
The connection runs at 1 Gbps
Switch Ethernet -Enterasys
24 plugs Rj45 10/100 Mb/s
Center
switch
Fibber optic cable
Emergency Radio room
- 1 inmarsat Standard C
- 1 Iridium
- 1 WiFi connection
Data connection
Seismology
1WiFi 54Mbit/sec
Weather station
1WiFi 54Mbit/sec
Geomagnetism
1WiFi 54Mbit/sec
1 Cable connection;
Geomagnetism
1 Radiomodem
Atmospheric
chemistry:
Glaciology
1 WiFi 54Mbit/sec
1 WiFi 54Mbit/sec
Refuelling
fibber optic; Astronomic site
1WiFi (bakeup connection) 54Mbit/sec
Gray
water
mud
Snow drawing
1WiFi 54Mbit/sec
- fibber Optic
32 m
Tower
ASTROCONCORDIA:
BRAIN:
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chiara.montanari@consorzio.pnra.it