CN114212199A

CN114212199A - Movable semi-submersible floating type offshore super computing center

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Publication number: CN114212199A
Application number: CN202111655955.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 盛松伟; 王勇; 余伟俊
Original assignee: Guangdong Zhongke Julang Marine Development Research Co ltd; Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion of CAS
Current assignee: Guangdong Zhongke Julang Marine Development Research Co ltd; Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion of CAS
Priority date: 2021-12-30
Filing date: 2021-12-30
Publication date: 2022-03-22

Abstract

The invention discloses a movable semi-submersible floating type offshore super-computation center which comprises a semi-submersible platform, wherein a plurality of watertight bin bodies are arranged on the semi-submersible platform, super-computation modules are respectively arranged in the watertight bin bodies, the semi-submersible platform floats upwards or submerges through a pumping and drainage system, when the semi-submersible platform is in a floating state, the watertight bin bodies are exposed out of the water surface for a certain height, when the semi-submersible platform is in a submerging state, the watertight bin bodies are completely submerged under the water surface, a wave energy power generation device is further arranged on the semi-submersible platform and used for converting wave energy into electric energy and transmitting the electric energy to an energy storage unit, the watertight bin bodies are mutually communicated through airtight channels and are connected to a bin body where the energy storage unit is located, and the electric connection between the super-computation modules and the energy storage unit is realized. The super-computation center is arranged on the semi-submersible floating type offshore power generation platform, can be deployed to be relatively close to current and potential customers, can be naturally cooled by fully utilizing heat exchange with seawater, and greatly reduces energy consumption.

Description

Movable semi-submersible floating type offshore super computing center

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of super computing centers, in particular to a movable semi-submersible floating type offshore super computing center capable of utilizing seawater for cooling and green energy for power supply.

Background

With the rapid development of world information technology, people have rapidly stepped into the cloud era, the demand for data storage and computing resources is increasing, the scale of a super computing center is also increasing, and the energy consumption is rapidly increasing at an incredible speed. Besides a small part of the electric energy consumed by the equipment is dissipated in the form of electromagnetic radiation, most of the electric energy is finally converted into heat energy, and the huge heat dissipation requirement enables the power consumption of cooling equipment of the data center to account for more than 40% of the total power consumption. Cooling a supercomputing center with a natural cold source is one of the most direct and effective means to reduce power consumption.

At present, the electricity cost is considered in the super-computation center of China, most of the super-computation center is located in the northwest region, and users of the super-computation center are concentrated in the southeast coastal region. As cloud-based computing and cloud-based services grow, customers want their cloud applications to be as fast as possible while also meeting requirements for privacy, security, etc., for which future super-computing centers need to be located as close as possible to the customer base.

In the prior art, publication No. CN105556113 discloses a water-based data center apparatus and method using a closed-loop thermal management system, which proposes to arrange a data center in a cabin of a marine vessel and to circulate and cool the data center by pumping bottom seawater; patent CN106102413 discloses an underwater data processor, which moors a data center to the seabed by using an anchor to realize cooling by using seawater. The data center is arranged on a ship or directly arranged underwater to achieve the purpose of utilizing a seawater cold source, but the huge power load requirement of the super-computation center requires that the system has the supply capacity of offshore high-power, and the supporting structure such as the ship or the underwater structure which is independently configured for the data center is high in cost.

With the large-scale development and the gradual maturity of the technical development of the offshore power generation platform in recent years, the problem can be well solved by combining the super computing center and the ocean energy supply platform.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a movable semi-submersible floating type offshore super computing center.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that:

the utility model provides a portable semi-submerged floating type offshore super calculation center, including semi-submerged platform, be provided with a plurality of watertight storehouse body on the semi-submerged platform, each watertight storehouse internal portion is provided with super calculation module respectively, semi-submerged platform goes up through drainage system come-up or dive, when semi-submerged platform is in the come-up state, the watertight storehouse body exposes the surface of water a take the altitude, when semi-submerged platform is in the dive state, the watertight storehouse body submerges under the surface of water completely, still be provided with wave energy power generation facility on the semi-submerged platform for turn into the electric energy with the wave energy and convey to the energy storage unit, each watertight storehouse body communicates each other and inserts the cabin body that the energy storage unit belongs to through airtight passageway, realize super calculation module and energy storage unit's electricity and be connected.

Further, semi-submerged formula platform includes the platform body, and a plurality of stands are installed to platform body deck, and each stand top is connected to be platform on water, the watertight storehouse body is installed on platform body deck, the energy storage unit is installed on platform on water.

Furthermore, the wave energy power generation device comprises wave absorbing floats and a closed power generation equipment bin which are arranged between the stand columns, a crankshaft and a wave energy conversion element hinged with the crankshaft are arranged in the power generation equipment bin, and two ends of the crankshaft extend out of the power generation equipment bin and are respectively connected with two supporting arms of the wave absorbing floats through hinged shaft supports, so that the wave absorbing floats can drive the crankshaft to move synchronously, and the wave energy conversion element is driven to generate power.

Furthermore, a mast lighthouse is arranged on the above-water platform, and navigation, meteorological, communication and observation equipment is installed on the mast lighthouse.

Furthermore, a plurality of wind driven generators are further mounted on the above-water platform and used for converting wind energy into electric energy and transmitting the electric energy to the energy storage unit.

Further, still install solar panel on the platform on water for convert solar energy into the electric energy and convey to the energy storage unit.

Further, a propeller is arranged at the end part of the bottom surface of the platform body.

Furthermore, a plurality of mooring lifting lugs are uniformly distributed on the periphery of the platform body, one end of each mooring cable is connected with the mooring lifting lug, and the other end of each mooring cable is connected with the mooring anchor.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. the super-computation center is supported on a semi-submersible floating type offshore power generation platform, the super-computation center can be deployed to be relatively close to current and potential customers, and user experience is improved.

2. The heat exchange with seawater is fully utilized to carry out natural cooling on the supercomputing center, the traditional methods such as wind cooling, common liquid cooling and the like are replaced, the energy consumption is greatly reduced, and the maintenance cost of a cooling device is saved.

3. Clean pollution-free renewable energy sources such as wave energy, tidal current energy, wind energy and solar energy are fully utilized, and self-supply power supply of the super-computation center is realized.

4. The semi-submersible ship type design can stay on the water surface, can sail on the sea surface like a ship, and can also stop at a wharf, so that the difficulty and the cost of launching, maintaining and transferring of the super computing center are greatly reduced.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile semi-submersible offshore ultra-computation center of the present embodiment;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of the wave energy power generation device of the embodiment;

fig. 3 is a motion schematic diagram of the wave energy power generation device of the embodiment;

description of reference numerals: 1-a platform body; 2-a watertight bin body; 3-an overage module; 4-watertight channel; 5-upright column; 6-equipment cabin; 7-mast lighthouse; 8-wave power generation device; 81-wave absorbing floater; 82-a power plant bin; 83-crankshaft; 84-wave energy conversion elements; 85-a support arm; 86-sealing seat; 87-a coupling; 88-hinged shaft support.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the present application will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "center," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the present application and for simplicity in description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are therefore not to be considered limiting of the present application.

Examples

Referring to fig. 1, the mobile semi-submersible floating type offshore super-computation center of the present embodiment mainly includes a semi-submersible platform and a super-computation center disposed on the semi-submersible platform. When the super-computation center works, the semi-submersible platform submerges, a cabin body of the super-computation center of the semi-submersible platform is in a shallow seawater coating environment, the water temperature is lower than that of a water surface type super-computation center, the seawater mobility is large than that of a seabed type super-computation center, and the natural heat exchange effect is good. Meanwhile, the water-water forced cooling system can be matched with an auxiliary cooling water-water forced cooling system, so that the seawater enters and exits the bin body through the circulating water path to take away heat. When the super-computation center is maintained, the semi-submersible platform floats upwards to enable the bin body of the super-computation center to be exposed out of the water surface, and maintenance personnel and equipment can work on board. If the platform meets the frontal attack of natural disasters such as tsunami, typhoon and the like, the platform can be floated, sailed after being anchored and dragged to a nearby port for disaster avoidance in advance.

The main structure of the semi-submersible platform mainly comprises a platform main body 1 and a plurality of upright columns 5 arranged on the platform main body, wherein the platform main body 1 comprises a plurality of longitudinal and transverse rows of cabin bodies, the top surface is a deck, the upright columns 5 can also be divided into a plurality of cabin bodies from top to bottom, and the tops of the upright columns 5 are connected to form an overwater platform. And all the cabins of the semi-submersible platform, which need to provide buoyancy, are provided with exhaust pipes and drain pipes. Exhausting and feeding water in the cabin to realize the downward submergence of the semi-submerged platform; and (4) aerating and draining water in the cabin to realize upward floating of the semi-submersible platform. The amount of water and gas entering, draining and entering into the control cabin can realize that the semi-submersible platform rises to a certain height above the water surface of the deck of the platform main body, so that maintenance personnel and equipment can conveniently climb on the ship, and the semi-submersible platform is submerged below the water surface at the lowest submergence to the position except the position where the upper platform is above the water surface, so that the anti-storm capability of the semi-submersible platform can be greatly improved, and the stable operation of an over-computation center is facilitated. The front and rear ends of the platform body 1 are designed to have a certain inclination to reduce drag or sailing resistance. The two ends of the bottom surface of the platform main body 1 can be provided with propellers, thereby realizing dynamic positioning and short-distance navigation. In order to further fix the semi-submersible platform, a plurality of mooring lifting lugs are uniformly distributed on the periphery of the platform body, one end of a mooring cable is connected with the mooring lifting lugs, and the other end of the mooring cable is connected with a mooring anchor, so that the basically constant stress can be kept in a storm, and the stable operation of the platform is guaranteed. In order to increase the stability of the whole platform in waves, the deck area of the platform main body 1 is made as large as possible, the draught depth of the platform is increased as large as possible, but the sectional area of the upright post 5 is not too large, so that the gravity center of the whole platform is close to the lower end and the floating center is close to the upper end as much as possible.

The super-computation center mainly comprises a plurality of watertight cabin bodies 2 distributed on a platform main body 1 and super-computation modules 3 arranged inside the watertight cabin bodies 2. The watertight bin bodies 2 are mutually communicated through watertight channels 4 and are connected into an equipment cabin 6 where the energy storage unit is located, so that the super-computation module 3 is electrically connected with the energy storage unit. The material of the watertight bin body 2 preferably adopts a plate with high heat conductivity coefficient, good waterproofness and high strength, and the plate is cooled by heat exchange with seawater for the super calculation module. Preferably, a water-water forced cooling system for auxiliary cooling can be further arranged in the watertight cabin body 2, so that the heat dissipation and cooling of the super calculation module under high load are enhanced, the specific design is the prior art, and the detailed description is omitted. The hypercalculation module 3 is fixed inside the watertight bin body 2 through a support, preferably, the inside of the watertight bin body 2 is filled with nitrogen so as to ensure the corrosion resistant effect of internal equipment.

The power supply system of the semi-submersible platform can adopt a marine sustainable power supply system consisting of wind energy, solar energy, wave energy, tidal current energy and energy storage. In addition, in order to ensure the energy supply requirement of the super-computation center, a standby diesel power generation system can be matched and connected into a shore power main grid. The center of the above-water platform formed at the top of the upright post 5 is an equipment cabin 6 of an energy conversion platform, and wave energy, tidal current energy, wind energy, solar energy and other related conversion equipment, an energy storage unit, an air compressor, a standby generator, a controller and the like which do not need to be exposed outside are arranged inside the above-water platform. The top surface of the equipment cabin 6 is provided with a mast lighthouse 7 for installing equipment such as navigation, weather, communication, observation and the like. The wind driven generator can be arranged on an underwater platform to convert wind energy into electric energy. The solar power generation board can be laid above the water platform to convert solar energy into electric energy. The wave energy power generation device 8 is designed to be located near a platform working waterline and can be installed between the upright posts 5 to convert wave energy into electric energy. The tidal current energy generating device can be arranged on the deck of the platform main body 1 and used for converting tidal current energy into electric energy.

Electric energy generated by four different power generation devices of the semi-submersible platform is converted into direct current and then is uniformly stored in the energy storage unit, the energy storage unit can select a storage battery pack, the stored electric energy can be output outwards through a watertight cable interface, and uninterrupted supply and automatic production of electric power under extreme conditions are achieved.

As shown in fig. 2 and 3, the wave energy power generation apparatus 8 comprises wave absorbing floats 81 and a power generation equipment bin 82 disposed between the columns 5. The wave absorbing floater 81 adopts the existing eagle head type wave energy wave absorbing floater, the power generation equipment bin 82 is installed below the wave absorbing floater 81 and is arranged in a closed mode, and the top surface of the wave absorbing floater 81 in the middle is upwards convex. The power generation equipment bin 82 is internally provided with a crankshaft 83 and a wave energy conversion element 84, the lower end of the wave energy conversion element 84 is hinged with the bottom surface of the power generation equipment bin 82, the upper end of the wave energy conversion element 84 is hinged with the crankshaft 83, the two ends of the crankshaft 83 extend out of the power generation equipment bin 82 and then are respectively connected with a rotating shaft of a hinge shaft support 88 arranged on the top surface of the power generation equipment bin 82 through a coupler 87, and the crankshaft 83 is in dynamic sealing connection with the power generation equipment bin 82 through a sealing seat 86. The two sides of the wave-absorbing floater 81 are respectively and fixedly connected with the rotating shaft of the hinge shaft support 88 through the supporting arms 85, so that when the wave-absorbing floater 81 swings around the hinge shaft support 88, the rotating shaft of the hinge shaft support 88 is driven to swing synchronously, the rotating shaft drives the crankshaft 83 to swing synchronously through the coupler 87, and the wave energy conversion element 84 is driven to do work and generate power. The wave energy conversion element 84 can adopt the existing conversion elements which do linear motion, such as a hydraulic cylinder, a linear motor and the like.

According to the wave energy power generation device 8, the wave energy conversion element 84 is arranged in the closed power generation equipment bin 82 and is not directly connected with the external wave absorbing floater 81, so that erosion and damage of external factors such as seawater and the like can be avoided, the service life of the device is prolonged, and secondly, the wave energy conversion element 84 does not restrict the motion of the wave absorbing floater 81, so that the swinging amplitude of the wave absorbing floater 81 can be greatly improved, and as shown in fig. 3, wave energy can be completely utilized, and the power generation efficiency of the wave energy power generation device 8 is remarkably improved.

In conclusion, the mobile semi-submersible offshore super computation center can be deployed relatively close to current and potential customers by arranging the super computation center on the semi-submersible offshore power generation platform; the heat exchange with seawater can be fully utilized to carry out natural cooling on the supercomputing center, and the surrounding environment is hardly influenced while the energy consumption is reduced; clean energy sources such as wave energy, tidal current energy, solar energy and wind energy are used as power sources, offshore renewable energy sources are obtained nearby and used on site, and the reliability of power supply of a super-computing center can be greatly improved while the marine renewable energy sources are green and environment-friendly; the semi-submersible platform can stay on the water surface, can sail on the sea surface like a ship, and can also be docked, so that the difficulty and the cost of launching, maintaining and transferring of the super computing center are greatly reduced.

The above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical concept and features of the present invention, and the purpose thereof is to enable those skilled in the art to understand the contents of the present invention and implement the present invention accordingly, and not to limit the protection scope of the present invention accordingly. All equivalent changes or modifications made in accordance with the spirit of the present disclosure are intended to be covered by the scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A movable semi-submersible floating type offshore super computing center is characterized in that: the energy storage device comprises a semi-submersible platform, a plurality of watertight cabin bodies are arranged on the semi-submersible platform, an overcounting module is arranged inside each watertight cabin body, the semi-submersible platform floats upwards or submerges through a pumping and drainage system, when the semi-submersible platform is in a floating state, the watertight cabin bodies are exposed out of the water surface by a certain height, when the semi-submersible platform is in a submerging state, the watertight cabin bodies are submerged below the water surface completely, a wave energy power generation device is further arranged on the semi-submersible platform and used for converting wave energy into electric energy and transmitting the electric energy to an energy storage unit, each watertight cabin body is communicated with each other through an airtight channel and is connected into a cabin body where the energy storage unit is located, and the overcounting module is electrically connected with the energy storage unit.

2. The transportable semi-submersible offshore super-computation center of claim 1, wherein: the semi-submersible platform comprises a platform body, a plurality of stand columns are installed on a deck of the platform body, the tops of the stand columns are connected to form an overwater platform, the watertight bin body is installed on the deck of the platform body, and the energy storage unit is installed on the overwater platform.

3. The transportable semi-submersible offshore super-computation center of claim 2, wherein: the wave energy power generation device comprises wave absorbing floats and a closed power generation equipment bin, the wave energy conversion elements are arranged between the wave absorbing floats and the closed power generation equipment bin, a crankshaft and the wave energy conversion elements are hinged to the crankshaft, and two ends of the crankshaft extend out of the power generation equipment bin and are connected with two supporting arms of the wave absorbing floats through hinge shaft supports, so that the wave absorbing floats can drive the crankshaft to move synchronously, and the wave energy conversion elements are driven to generate power.

4. The transportable semi-submersible offshore super-computation center of claim 2, wherein: the overwater platform is provided with a mast lighthouse, and navigation, meteorological, communication and observation equipment is mounted on the mast lighthouse.

5. The transportable semi-submersible offshore super-computation center of claim 2, wherein: and the overwater platform is also provided with a plurality of wind driven generators for converting wind energy into electric energy and transmitting the electric energy to the energy storage unit.

6. The transportable semi-submersible offshore super-computation center of claim 2, wherein: and the water platform is also provided with a solar power generation panel for converting solar energy into electric energy and transmitting the electric energy to the energy storage unit.

7. The transportable semi-submersible offshore super-computation center of claim 2, wherein: and the platform body is also provided with a tidal current energy generating device which is used for converting tidal current energy into electric energy and transmitting the electric energy to the energy storage unit.

8. The transportable semi-submersible offshore super-computation center of claim 2, wherein: the end part of the bottom surface of the platform body is provided with a propeller.

9. The transportable semi-submersible offshore super-computation center of claim 2, wherein: a plurality of mooring lifting lugs are uniformly distributed on the periphery of the platform body, one end of a mooring cable is connected with the mooring lifting lugs, and the other end of the mooring cable is connected with a mooring anchor.