Dumont d’Urville

Concordia StationDome C

Mario ZucchelliStation

Baia Terra Nova

McMurdo

Mid Point

D-85

D-10C-3

Concordia Station

A Typical Calendarfor 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.

• 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).

MATERIAL TRANSPORTATION

DDU

CPH

30/11-03/12

31/12-03/0129/01-31/01

Last Summer CampaignPersonnel during Summer

Last Summer Campaign

Clean Area

Concordia

Summer camp

Obs. Geomagnetism

Vaisala weather station

Seismology

Astroconcordia

Dome C

1.050m

Glaciology

Shelter HF

The Camp

Epica lab.

33 m (83mq) disassembled

Summer Camp

Power Generator: 1.400 sq buildings 57 beds max

Garage tent

Storages tents

Main building

Dormitory tents

Drilling tent

Labs

Concordia Station

workshops

Storages sport room

Kitchen dining room

Medical

Bedrooms

Laboratories radio room

Main Buildings

Noisy

Calm

Concordia Station

Inside the buildings

workshops

Storages sports room

Kitchen

dining room

Medical

Bedrooms

Laboratories radio room

Noisy

Calm

Atmospheric chemmistry lab

Glaciology lab Sismology lab

Astronomy lab

Medical Bedrooms

Leaving room

Kitchen Video room

Sport roomWorkshop

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.

Power supplyed in kW

Hours gen. N 1 400Hours gen. N 2 486Hours gen. N 3 1474Hours emergency gen. 15

Average KW Max KW Min KW85 135 60

Lit/week Lit/day4257 608

The Power station

during the last summer campaign

Fuel consumption

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.

Activity Sect.

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).

Waste water treatment

Water production and water recycling

Glaciology

Geomagnetism

Weather station

Refuelling

Geomagnetism

Snow drawing

Gray water mud

Astronomic site

32 m

Tower

Atmospheric chemistry:

Research activities Seismology

Glaciology

Geomagnetism

Weather station

Refuelling

Geomagnetism

Snow drawing

Gray water mud

Astronomic site

32 m

Tower

Clean air area

Atmospheric chemistry:

The idea for the futureSeismology

Astronomic sector

Astronomic site

COCHISE

3,5 m4,2 m

20 m

Some laboratoryes were disassembled in order to use the modular panels to built a structure to support the research acrtivities.

Telecommunications

-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

Outside the Station:1 Inmarsat Standard B 1 Inmarsat Fleet

Inside the Station 1 Inmarsat Standard B 1 Inmarsat Fleet

Radio RoomInside 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

Fibber optic cable

Switch Ethernet -Enterasys 24 plugs Rj45 10/100 Mb/s

Center switch

Emergency Radio room

- 1 inmarsat Standard C- 1 Iridium- 1 WiFi connection

Glaciology

Geomagnetism

Weather station

Refuelling

Geomagnetism

Snow drawing

Gray water mud

Astronomic site

32 m

Tower

Atmospheric chemistry:

Data connection Seismology

fibber optic;1WiFi (bakeup connection) 54Mbit/sec

1WiFi 54Mbit/sec

1WiFi 54Mbit/sec

1 WiFi 54Mbit/sec1 WiFi 54Mbit/sec

1 Cable connection;1 Radiomodem

1WiFi 54Mbit/sec

1WiFi 54Mbit/sec

- fibber Optic

ASTROCONCORDIA:

BRAIN:

Thanks for attention

chiara.montanari@consorzio.pnra.it