EP2324244A1 - Centrale éolienne flottante - Google Patents

Centrale éolienne flottante

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EP2324244A1
EP2324244A1 EP09814845A EP09814845A EP2324244A1 EP 2324244 A1 EP2324244 A1 EP 2324244A1 EP 09814845 A EP09814845 A EP 09814845A EP 09814845 A EP09814845 A EP 09814845A EP 2324244 A1 EP2324244 A1 EP 2324244A1
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accordance
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Bertil Moritz
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FLOWOCEAN LIMITED
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HM Power AB
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D13/00—Assembly, mounting or commissioning of wind motors; Arrangements specially adapted for transporting wind motor components
    • F03D13/20—Arrangements for mounting or supporting wind motors; Masts or towers for wind motors
    • F03D13/25—Arrangements for mounting or supporting wind motors; Masts or towers for wind motors specially adapted for offshore installation
    • F03D13/256—Arrangements for mounting or supporting wind motors; Masts or towers for wind motors specially adapted for offshore installation on a floating support, i.e. floating wind motors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D1/00—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially parallel to the air flow entering the rotor 
    • F03D1/02—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially parallel to the air flow entering the rotor  having a plurality of rotors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D13/00—Assembly, mounting or commissioning of wind motors; Arrangements specially adapted for transporting wind motor components
    • F03D13/10—Assembly of wind motors; Arrangements for erecting wind motors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D13/00—Assembly, mounting or commissioning of wind motors; Arrangements specially adapted for transporting wind motor components
    • F03D13/20—Arrangements for mounting or supporting wind motors; Masts or towers for wind motors
    • F03D13/25—Arrangements for mounting or supporting wind motors; Masts or towers for wind motors specially adapted for offshore installation
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2240/00—Components
    • F05B2240/90—Mounting on supporting structures or systems
    • F05B2240/93—Mounting on supporting structures or systems on a structure floating on a liquid surface
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2240/00—Components
    • F05B2240/90—Mounting on supporting structures or systems
    • F05B2240/95—Mounting on supporting structures or systems offshore
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/70—Wind energy
    • Y02E10/72—Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/70—Wind energy
    • Y02E10/727—Offshore wind turbines

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  • the present invention generally refers to a floatable wind power plant and more specifically to a wind power plant, which is designed as a floating structure.
  • the latter refers to and is intended to be used in a system for creating prerequisites for generating electric power and electric energy from a prevailing force of a wind and the direction of the wind.
  • Systems of this type can then comprise a; individual but coordinated pontoon units which are floatable in a body of water, b; a plurality of, at least two, adjacent to each other oriented and coordinated wind turbines (wind-driven propellers), c; a mooring system solidly anchored to a restricted bottom area of said body of water, d; a gen- erator unit which may be driven by the rotational movement of wind turbines for generating said electric power, e; a cable section connected on the one hand to said generator unit and on the other hand to a land-based distribution network distributing generated electric power.
  • This invention has been created with the purpose of being applied with at least two of said pontoon units which may be coordinated with one carrier beam or similar, oriented such as horizontally, adapted to form and/or support a first frame structure which is vertically or substantially vertically oriented, to which frame structure and/or carrier beam said wind turbines are distributed, preferably sidewise-relatedly, and wherein at least a third one of said pontoon units is to be coordinated with a second horizontally or substantially horizontally oriented frame structure, wherein said first frame structure and said second frame structure are united to each other i.a. by means of associated frame portions.
  • a floatable wind power plant in the form of an individual structure related to a body of water is shown and described and more particularly a structure for creating prerequisites from a prevailing wind force and the direction of the wind for generating electric power.
  • the structure of the mentioned type comprises a; individual but mechanically coordinated pontoon units which are floatable in a body of water, b; a plurality of, at least two, adjacent to each other oriented and coordinated wind turbines (wind-driven propellers), c; a mooring system solidly anchored to a restricted bottom area of said body of water, d; a generator unit which may be driven by the rotational movements of one or more wind turbines for generating said electric power, and ⁇ ; a cable section connected on the one hand to said generator unit and on the other hand to a land- based distribution network distributing generated electric power.
  • said pontoon units are to be structured by and associated with at least two vertical or at least substantially vertical floatable posts for i.a. forming a first vertical frame structure.
  • a third pontoon unit Said two (three) post-shaped pontoon units are flexurally rigid in themselves and are furthermore adapted to be able to support vertically at least one horizontally oriented carrier beam structure, which is flexurally rigid in itself.
  • Such carrier beam structure is to be adapted and dimensioned such, that it will be able to support a plurality of said wind turbines horizontally.
  • Each one of said post-shaped pontoon units and said upright or third pontoon unit are mutually dimensioned and/or adapted such, with their lower partial portions Immersed in said body of water, as to retain the upper portions of said two frame structures floating over the surface of the water.
  • sais upright is to be laterally displaced by one plane, oriented through said first frame structure and said posts, with the upright being adapted over a second frame structure on the one hand to be able to cooperate rotatably rigidly with said first frame structure and on the other hand to be attached to and to be able to cooperate fixedly with said mooring system.
  • said pontoon units are to cooperate with a horizontally oriented carrier beam adapted to be included in, to form and/or to support a first vertically or substantially vertically oriented frame structure, to which frame structure and/or carrier beam said wind turbines are side-relatedly distributed, and wherein at least a third one of said pontoon units is coordinated with a second, horizontally or sub- sta ⁇ tially horizontally oriented frame structure, said first frame structure and said second frame structure being i.a. solidly connected to each other by means of associated frame portions.
  • first frame structure comprise points of attachment for wires, chains or similar means dimensioned for tractive forces and attached to the second frame structure.
  • the upper attachment point be comprised of the carrier beam structure and/or an upper area for the downwardly converging frame portions of the first frame structure.
  • the present invention takes the known technology of a floating wind power plant, indicated by way of introduction, such as in the form of a system related to a body of water for creating prerequisites from a prevailing wind force and direction of the wind for generating electric power, comprising a; individual but coordina- ted pontoon units which are floatable in a body of water, b; a plurality of, at least two, adjacent to each other oriented and coordinated wind turbines (wind-driven propellers), c; a mooring system solidly anchored to a restricted bottom area of said body of water, d; a generator unit which may be driven by the rotational movement of the wind turbines for generating said electric power, and e; a cable section connected on the one hand to said generator unit and on the other hand to a land-based distribution network distributing generated electric power.
  • a floating wind power plant indicated by way of introduction, such as in the form of a system related to a body of water for creating prerequisites from a prevailing wind force and direction of
  • the invention is based on that at least two of said pontoon units are coordinated with a horizontally oriented carrier beam or carrier beam structure a- dapted to form and/or support a first, a vertically or substantially vertically oriented fra- me structure, to which frame structure and/or carrier beam structure said turbines are side-reiatedly distributed, and wherein at least a third one of said pontoon units is coordinated with a second horizontally or substantially horizontally oriented frame structure, wherein said first frame structure and said second frame structure are mutually united by means of associated frame portions.
  • the present invention directs that said pontoon units belonging to the first frame structure are to be shaped as two downwardly converging frame portions or posts and that one pontoon unit belonging to the second frame structure is to be adapted to cooperate with a frame portion allotted to the second frame structure, such as converging frame portions facing away from the first frame structure.
  • said first frame structure with at least one horizontally oriented carrier beam and frame portions belonging to the pontoon units allotted to the frame structure, is to be oriented in one and the same pla- ne, such as a vertical plane.
  • the mentioned converging frame portions are to be allotted a mutual angle of less than 90° and more than 50°.
  • the mentioned converging frame portions can then be oriented and coordinated for forming a coordinated pointed portion.
  • the mentioned converging frame portions can then be coordinated with one or more carrier beams oriented over the water surface.
  • Said converging frame portions can then be coordinated by means of cross-wise positioned, for tractive forces dimensioned wires, bars, chains and/or cables or the like.
  • Said first frame structure can with its carrier beam embodiment be adapted to sturtly support individual pontoon units with the respective associated stationary fastening points oriented in an area of 10 - 30 % of the total length of the carrier beam, counted from one or both end surfaces of the carrier beam.
  • Said first frame structure is then to be attached to said second frame structure over the water surface by means of a stationary connection but, however, articulated connection around a horizontal axis of rotation.
  • said first frame structure is to be able to comprise fastening points for wires, bars, chains and/or cables or the like dimensioned for tractive forces, wherein said fastening points should be oriented above and below the indicated articulated con- nection.
  • the upper fastening point can then be comprised of the carrier beam and/or an upper area for the downwardly converging frame portions of the first frame structure.
  • Said second frame structure is, with the horizontally oriented frame portions be- longing to the pontoon unit, oriented in one and the same, such as horizontal, plane with and/or exhibits an external downwardly deflected frame portion.
  • Said converging frame portions can then be allotted a mutual angle of less than 65° and more than 40°.
  • Said converging frame portions with their deflected frame portions are oriented so as to form a coordinated pointed portion.
  • Said converging frame portions are adjacent to their deflected frame portion coordinated with a carrier beam oriented over the surface of the water.
  • Said converging frame portions are coordinated over diverging bars or cables dimensioned for tractive forces.
  • Said first frame structure comprises attachment points for wires, chains or similar means dimensioned for tractive forces and attached to the second frame structure.
  • Said fastening points are oriented at the same distance or at least substantially at the same distance above and below the articulated connection.
  • the upper fastening point comprises the carrier beam and/or an upper area for the downwardly converging frame portions of the first frame structure.
  • the present invention indicates that the converging portions or pontoon units allotted to the first frame structure are to be placed such, with regard to the wind turbines, that bracing can be carried out without interfering with said wind turbines.
  • Said carrier beam and said frame portion or frame portions allotted to the menti- oned second frame structure are to be oriented at such vertical height over a water level that a wave with an expected maximal high height can pass underneath.
  • the mooring system should exhibit a docking point under the surface of the water and coordinated with the second frame structure and with a buoy arrangement attached thereto. Said buoy arrangement is then to be adapted to support a submarine cable section for the land-based distribution network distributing generated electric power, which cable section is over a cable connector to be in electric connection with a cable section allotted to the second frame structure and/or the first frame structure.
  • a cable section can then be adapted to extend from docking points a distance along the second frame structure.
  • Structures of this type can then include i.a. a; individual but coordinated ponto- on units, which are floatable in a body of water, b; a plurality of, at least two, adjacent to each other oriented and coordinated, wind turbines (wind-driven propellers), c; a mooring system, solidly anchored to a restricted bottom area of said body of water, d; a generator unit, which may be driven by the rotational movement of the wind turbines for generating said electric power, and e: a cable section (or sections), connected on the one hand to said generator unit and on the other hand to a land-based distribution network distributing thus generated electric power.
  • two pontoon units belonging to a first frame structure, are to be shaped as downwardly converging frame portions or posts and that a pontoon unit or upright belonging to a second frame structure is to be adapted to co- operate at a distance with the second frame structure over an allotted frame portion, such as converging frame portions facing away from the first frame structure.
  • Figure 1 shows a first frame structure of a water-supported wind power plant or a structure in a front view and exposing two pontoons units or posts viewed in a direction from an eye of a wind allotted to the direction of the wind, in addition thereto
  • Figure 1a illustrates a proposed alternative with another converging angle and orientation of the two pontoon units or posts.
  • Figure 2 shows a larger part of the structure of Figure 1 in a perspective view, exhibiting the significant characteristics and features associated with the present invention, with a first vertical frame structure in rotatable cooperation with a second more horizontal frame structure.
  • Figure 3 shows the structure of Figures 1 and 2 in a side view and parallel to a prevailing direction of the wind and its eye of the wind, and
  • Figure 4 shows the structure according to Figures 1 and 2 in an interna! or side view iliustrating the existence of a docking point.
  • Pontoon unite concerns one or more vertical posts (1 , 2) and/or one or more uprights (3), with their lower portions immersed in a body of water.
  • the beam structure concerns a flexurally rigid beam with a structure, which can support a selected number of wind turbines and one or more generator units and which can enclose a system transferring a rotational movement.
  • a bar-shaped means, dimensioned for taking up compressive forces concerns a structure which primarily is dimensioned for being able to take up compressive forces, but which also can take up tractive forces.
  • a means, dimensioned for taking up tractive forces concerns a structure, which primarily is dimensioned for being able to take up tractive forces but with minor or no requirements of being able to take up compressive forces.
  • Figures 1 to 4 show a floatable wind power plant in the form of a wind force activating structure "A" related to a body of water for creating prerequisites for generating electric power in a generator "G” from a prevailing force of wind and direction of wind from an eye 1 W of the wind.
  • the structure "A” comprises a; individual but coordinated pontoon units 1 , 2 and (3), respectively, which are floatable in a body of water “V 1 b; a plurality of, at least two, adjacent to each other oriented and coordinated wind turbines 4, 4a, 4b, and 4c, respectively, (wind-driven propellers), c; a mooring system 11 M” solidly anchored to a restricted bottom area “B” of said body of water “V", d; a generator unit “G” which may be driven by the rotational movement of a turbine for generating said electric power, and e; a cable section "K” connected on the one hand to said generator unit and on the other hand to a land-based distribution network (not shown) distributing thus generated electric power.
  • At least two of said pontoon units in the form of posts 1 , 2 are coordinated with a horizontally oriented carrier beam structure 5 adapted to form and/or support a first, a vertically or substantially vertically oriented frame structure 21 , to which frame structure and/or carrier beam 5 said turbines are side-relatedly distributed, and wherein at least a third one of said pontoon units (3) is coordinated with a second, a horizontal or substantially horizontally oriented frame structure 22, wherein said first frame structure 21 and said second frame structure 22 are by means of associated frame portions firmly but ro- tatably united to each other around a horizontal axis 6' of rotation.
  • Said two pontoon units 1 , 2 are structured by and associated with at least two posts 1 ', 2', which are floatable per se, are vertical, or are at least substantially vertical, for, together with additional structural elements and means, forming said first frame structure 21 and with at least one upright (3) or pontoon unit, stabilizing the vertical position of a frame structure 21 in the body of water "V.
  • the present invention will in the following be described with two posts 1 ', 2' associated with pontoon units and one upright 3 associated with a pontoon unit it should be noted that this embodiment can be increased by more posts and uprights than are mentioned here and distributed in different manner than the ones which are shown here and are utilized as minimum requirements.
  • Said two posts V 1 2' associated with pontoon units are adapted to be able to support said horizontally oriented carrier beam structure 5, which is flexurally rigid in itself, said structure 5 being adapted and dimensioned such, that it can support said turbines 4, 4a, 4b, and 4c, respectively.
  • Each one of the two mentioned posts or pontoon units 1 , 2 and said upright 3, such as in Figure 2 are so dimensioned and/or adapted that with their lower portions 1a, 2a, 3a lowered into said body of water “V” they keep the frame structure 21 floating over the water surface "Va” and with said upright 3 being displaced sideways by a plane “P” oriented by said frame structure 21 and said two posts V 1 2'.
  • Said pontoon units 1 , 2 belonging to the first frame structure 21 are shaped as two downwardly converging frame portions 11 (1), 12 (2).
  • Said pontoon unit or upright 3 is adapted to cooperate with the second frame structure 22 over a frame portion (22a, 22b) or converging two frame portions 22a, 22b facing the first frame structure 21.
  • Said first frame structure 21 is, with its horizontally oriented carrier beam structure 5 and its frame portions or posts 1 ', 2' belonging to its pontoon unit, oriented in one and the same plane, such as said vertical plane "P".
  • Said converging frame portions 11, 12 or posts 1', 2' have a mutual angle "a" which is smaller than 90°, but normally bigger or larger than 50°, such as around 75°, in Figure 1.
  • Said converging frame portions 11, 12 are here oriented so as to form a coordinated pointed portion 13.
  • Said converging frame portions 11, 12 are here coordinated with a carrier beam 6 oriented over the water surface "Va".
  • the carrier beam 6 is horizontally oriented and located below the wind turbines fastened at half the length of the frame portions 11, 12.
  • Said converging frame portions 11", 12" are in Figure 1a alternative, coordinated by means of crossing bars or cables 14, 14a dimensioned for tractive forces.
  • Said first frame structure 21 with its first carrier beam 5 and its second carrier beam 6 is adapted to solidly support individual pontoon units 1 , 2, respectively, with and by, respectiveiy, associated fixed fastening points oriented within an area "b" of about 10 - 30 % of the total length of carrier beam 5, counted from one or both end surfaces 5a and 5b, respectiveiy, of carrier beam 5. It is particularly indicated that said first frame structure 21 is attached to said second frame structure 22 by means of stationary but articulated connections which here are designated 16, 17.
  • said first frame structure 21 is to comprise attachment points for wires, chains or similar dimensioned for tractive forces and extend- ing in a direction from the second frame structure 22 and towards the first frame structure 21
  • the upper attachment point "p1", '"p1"' for the wires 22a' and 22b', respectiveiy, comprises either the carrier beam 5 and/or an upper area for the downwardly converging frame portions of the first frame structure 21 or the posts 1 ', 2'.
  • the upright or pontoon unit 3 is adapted on the one hand to cooperate "rotata- bty rigidly" by using said wires, with said first frame portion 21 and on the other hand to be attached to and adheringly cooperate with said mooring system "M" via a docking point 7.
  • a “rotatably rigid” attachment and cooperation mean that the upright 3 and the post 1 ' (alternatively the post 2') are provided with a bar-shaped means 22a, (22b), which is rotatably fastened to post 1 at 16, wherein the rotatably rigid fastening is achieved by said means 22a', 22a" taking up tractive forces.
  • the structure "A" more specifically indicates that between said upright 3 and each one of the two posts, a first post 1' and a second post 2', there extends a bar-shaped means dimensioned for taking up pressure, one means 22a for the left post 1 ' and a similar means 22b for the right post 2'.
  • the first means 22a', 22b" and second means 22b', 22b", such as in the form of a wire with turnbuckles or similar, are fastened to the first 1 ' and second 2' post in known manner on one side each of the rotatable attachment 16 and 17, respectively, for the bar-shaped means 22a and 22b, respectively,
  • the bar-shaped means 22a, 22b are attached to their respective posts V and 2' within a defined middle area "c", which is oriented between the beam structure 5 and a water surface "Va” belonging to the body of water "V".
  • a beam structure 6 dimensioned primarily for compressive forces is adapted to cooperate fixedly with the two posts 1 ', 2' close to but above a surface of water "Va” belonging to the body of water.
  • One single generator unit “G” is adapted here by means of a system “S” transferring a rotational movement to be driven by only one or a plurality of turbines 4, 4a, 4b and 4c, respectively, allotted to the beam structure 5.
  • Said upright 3 or pontoon unit is adapted to be able to cooperate with and/or enclose a transformer unit "T” and a cable connection "KT
  • Said transformer unit "T” can then be positioned in such manner within or adjacent to upright 3 that it wiil serve as ballast for said upright 3.
  • Cooperating means 22a', 22a"; 22b', 22b"; taking up tractive forces and being in the form of cables are in cooperation with and in connection with bars 22a, 22b or the like taking up tractive forces to form a firm structure in the form of a triangle.
  • the number of wind turbines 4, 4a, 4b and 4c which are to be coordinated with the beam structure 5 is chosen to exceed two and usually fall below six, such as the in- dicated and illustrated number of four in the exemplifying embodiment.
  • All of the wind turbines 4, 4b; 4a, 4c are adapted for directly cooperating with the system "S" transferring the rotational motion for synchronous operation of the propellers.
  • the propellers of the individual tur- bines 4 - 4c are adapted to be able to overlap each other's surfaces of coverage 4', 4a', 4b' and 4c', respectively.
  • Said bar-shaped means 5, 6, 11, 12, 22a and 22b, respectively, which are dimensioned for taking up a compressive force, are structured as one or more pipe portions, one or more framework structures, for reducing the dead weight. More particularly, these should be designed with small or no ability to float and with a small actuation surface for wind and/or waves.
  • Said wind turbine and/or wind turbines are arranged and adapted to directly be able to cooperate with the system "S" transferring rotational movement without associ- ated gear boxes.
  • Said vertically oriented posts 1', 2' can then be associated with a circular or elliptical, or at least substantially circular or elliptical, cross section with its main axis or major axis oriented parallel to the lengthwise positioning 5' of the beam structure 5.
  • Each one of said posts 1 ', 2' and the upright 3 can be hollow so as to form a float, with a cylindrical or elliptical or other cross-sectional shape.
  • All of the turbines 4 - 4c are coordinated in one and the same or at least substantially one and the same vertical plane, such as a plane adjacent said plane "P", through the frame portion 21 and side-related beam structure 5 in the direction of the upright 3.
  • Said upright is adapted to take a vertical position over the actuation of ballast, and over means 2a', 22a", 22b', 22b" it exhibits a flexurally rigid attachment to said posts 1', 2'.
  • a chosen anchorage system "M” is adapted to exhibit a well-defined point of fixation 7.
  • Said point of fixation 7 is adapted to such depth "d” below the water surface "Va” that when the wind force increases and becomes higher, this point of fixation 7 will lower the upright 3 in such manner as to decrease the angular position of the pontoon unit and the frame portion 21 as related to said vertical plane "P".
  • Said beam structure 5 has the shape of an aperture profile and surrounds the mentioned system "S” transferring a rotational movement for driving one and the same generator unit "G", wherein said generator unit should be centrally positioned with regard to the beam structure 5.
  • the relevant platform or structure "A", according to Figures 1 and 2 has a allotted width, which is greater than 200 meters, and therefore occuring variations in wind speeds must be considered. This also leads to that rotating the platform will be neces- sary by other means so that it can be positioned in a best angle with regard to the main direction.
  • said second frame structure 22 with horizontally oriented frame portions 22a, 22b belonging to pontoon units is oriented in one and the same plane, such as a horizontal plane "PV with and/or exhibiting a lower downwardly deflected frame portion 23.
  • Said converging frame portions 22a, 22b are allotted a mutual angle "b" of Jess than 65° and more than 40°.
  • Said converging frame portions 22a, 22b with their deflected frame portion 23 are oriented so as to form a coordinated point-shaped portion 24 (13), whereas said converging frame portions 22a, 22b are adjacent to their deflected frame portion 23 coordinated with a carrier beam 25 oriented over the water surface 'Va".
  • Said first frame structure 21 comprises attachment points for wires, chains or similar means 22a', 22a", 22b', 22b" dimensioned for tractive forces and fastened to or adjacent to the external end portion 24 of the second frame structure 22.
  • the fastening points are here oriented at the same distance, or at least substantially the same distance, above and below the articulated connection 16, 17 of the carrier beam 6. According to the invention the possibility is indicated, that the converging frame portions or pontoon units associated with the first frame structure 21 can be placed such, with regard to the wind turbines, that bracing can occur without interfering with said wind turbines.
  • Said carrier beam 6 and said frame portion or frame portions allotted to the se- cond frame structure 22 can be oriented at such vertical height (h) over a level of water "Va" that an expected wave of high height can pass underneath.
  • the mooring system "M” exhibits a docking point 7 under the water surface "Va” and with a buoy arrangement 30 connected thereto coordinated with the second frame structure 22.
  • the buoy arrangement 30 is adapted to support a submarine cable section "K2" for the land-based distribution network which distributes generated electric power and which cable section "K2" is electrically connected over a cable connection "k1" to a cable section “K3" ("K1") allotted to the second frame structure 22 and/or to the first frame structure 21.
  • the cable secton "K3" is adapted to extend from docking points 7 a distance along the second frame structure 22.
  • an anchorage and a cable of this design can be installed irrespective of the floating unit.
  • This system simplifies a procedure of towing the unit to a harbour for maintenance by only disconnecting over the docking point 7.
  • the cable too, has a simpie plug arrangement.
  • the float, the buoy 30 can in connecting the unit cooperate with the external portion 24 so that waves do not subject the cable to strain.
  • This positioning "K4" of the cable is illustrated by a dashed line.
  • each shown unit and/or circuit can be com- bined with each other illustrated unit and/or circuit within the frame of being able to reach the desired technical function.

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Abstract

L'invention porte sur une structure (« A ») pour créer, à partir d'une force de vent dominant (« W »), des prérequis pour générer de l'énergie électrique. Dans la structure portée sur l'eau (« A »), il est suggéré que parmi des unités flottantes utilisées (1, 2, 3), au moins deux de ces unités, appelées des montants (1', 2'), et une structure de poutre (5), soient coordonnées pour former une première structure de cadre (21) et au moins un montant (3), stabilisant la première position de structure de cadre (21) sur le plan d'eau, est compris dans une seconde structure de cadre (22). L'invention indique qu'une première structure de cadre triangulaire (21) doit être raccordée (16, 17) de façon stationnaire, tout en pouvant tourner autour d'un arbre tournant horizontal (6'), à la seconde structure de cadre triangulaire (22).
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