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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
  • B63B35/44—Floating buildings, stores, drilling platforms, or workshops, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
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  • B63B1/14—Hydrodynamic or hydrostatic features of hulls or of hydrofoils deriving lift mainly from water displacement with multiple hulls the hulls being interconnected resiliently or having means for actively varying hull shape or configuration
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  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
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  • B63B43/00—Improving safety of vessels, e.g. damage control, not otherwise provided for
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  • B63B43/06—Improving safety of vessels, e.g. damage control, not otherwise provided for reducing risk of capsizing or sinking by improving stability using ballast tanks
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B7/00—Collapsible, foldable, inflatable or like vessels
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B73/00—Building or assembling vessels or marine structures, e.g. hulls or offshore platforms
  • B63B73/40—Building or assembling vessels or marine structures, e.g. hulls or offshore platforms characterised by joining methods
  • B63B73/49—Building or assembling vessels or marine structures, e.g. hulls or offshore platforms characterised by joining methods by means of threaded members, e.g. screws, threaded bolts or nuts
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63G—OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
  • B63G8/00—Underwater vessels, e.g. submarines; Equipment specially adapted therefor
  • B63G8/14—Control of attitude or depth
  • B63G8/22—Adjustment of buoyancy by water ballasting; Emptying equipment for ballast tanks
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
  • B63B35/44—Floating buildings, stores, drilling platforms, or workshops, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
  • B63B2035/4433—Floating structures carrying electric power plants
  • B63B2035/4466—Floating structures carrying electric power plants for converting water energy into electric energy, e.g. from tidal flows, waves or currents
• • 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
  • Y02E10/30—Energy from the sea, e.g. using wave energy or salinity gradient

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• the invention relates to an installation vehicle for a tidal power plant, in particular for two-part systems, for which a nacelle with a turbine-generator unit is attached to a coupling device of a supporting against the bottom of the water base part. Furthermore, a method for the operation of the installation vehicle is specified.
• Water flow are known. These are developed for power generation from a watercourse or a sea current, in particular a tidal current, in order to be able to dispense with the establishment of barrages can.
• a propeller-shaped water turbine is used which drives an electric generator arranged inside the nacelle.
• EP 1 980 670 A1 discloses a catamaran having an open central area sized to allow a tidal turbine to pass therethrough.
• a gravity foundation to which the tidal turbine is coupled, is transported to the installation site on the underside of the catamaran.
• a disadvantage of this installation method is the high, to-use weight of the entire system to which the foundation part contributes significantly. As a result, the installation vehicle must meet a high payload requirement. To be able to install particularly large tidal power plants, it was proposed, in a first step, first the foundation with a
• GB 2437533 A and GB 2447514 B describe the
• detachable buoyancy aids described by US Pat. Nos. 3,633,369 and 3,823,564 may be used for the installation.
• GB 980,575 discloses a method for depositing heavy loads on the seabed. For this purpose, the pontoon used for the transport of the load is partially flooded and pulled by means of winches on an anchor system to the seabed. This is a shelf without disturbing wave influences possible.
• the invention is based on the object, an installation vehicle for
• the installation vehicle should be suitable for precise storage and recovery of plants of different sizes.
• a dipping device is used, which by means of a controllable fastening device, a nacelle with a turbine Generator unit for a tidal power station receives.
• the installation vehicle is by means of a supply and communication line with a
• Installation vehicle operated as an energy self-sufficient and remotely controllable unit.
• the installation vehicle comprises at least two floating devices with a plurality of ballast tanks, which are preferably designed as streamlined, elongate units. Between the floating devices is the
• Machine nacelle with the turbine-generator unit by means of a controllable fastening device held by a support member which establishes a connection between the floating devices.
• Coupling device used and / or the support element comprises a
• Inventive installation vehicle adaptable to different sizes of the turbine-generator unit.
• the distance between the lateral floating devices is adjusted by an exchange or a change in length of the support member so that the turbine-generator unit can be safely received.
• Adaptation of the support element which serves as a load-receiving connection between the floating devices, creates an adapted to the respective abinnede installation vehicle for the bending and torsional forces on the load-absorbing structures, in particular the support element, are reduced. Furthermore, the maneuverability and the life increase due to the reduced load.
• the floating devices are additionally adjustable in size.
• These preferably include a plurality of ballast tanks, which are arranged in series and each associated with a device for receiving ballast water.
• the water flow against one constantly
• each module comprising at least one ballast tank. Furthermore, there is a releasable connection between adjacent modules, which is designed to be load-bearing. This is an exchange of individual modules and adding additional modules for extending an advantageously designed floating device is possible.
• FIG. 1 shows an installation vehicle according to the invention, which has a
• Machine nacelle absorbs.
• FIGS. 2a are identical to FIGS. 2a.
• Figures 2b and 2b show in plan view installation vehicles according to the invention with a length-adapted support element which establishes a connection between lateral floating devices.
• FIG. 3 shows the arrangement of ballast tanks for the floating device of an installation vehicle according to the invention.
• FIG. 4 shows a partial section in a sectional illustration for a modularly constructed floating device of a device according to the invention
• FIG. 1 schematically illustrates, in simplified form, an installation vehicle 1 according to the invention. This is used to receive a machine nacelle 2 with a turbine generator unit 3, which can be placed on a foundation part of a tidal power plant not shown in detail by means of a coupling nipple 15.
• the machine nacelle 2 is held by a controllable
• the support member 8 is a connection between a pairwise arrangement laterally
• Figure 3 shows the structure of a floating device 4 as a partial sectional view.
• ballast tanks 5.1, ..., 5.8 are connected to a compressed air and control device 16 in connection, which sets the ballast water level in each ballast tank 5.1, 5.8 separately.
• the floating devices 4, 4.1, 4.2 are due to their size despite a streamlined design for the flow resistance essential components.
• connection between the support member 8 and the floating devices 4, 4.1, 4.2 can be separated.
• a releasable coupling device 9.1, 9.2 is used with a bolt connection 12 for the realization of this connection.
• This releasable coupling device 9.1, 9.2 can be at different
• Attachment points 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4 are attached to the support member 8, so that on the support member 8 different distances for the floating device 4, 4.1, 4.2 are adjustable.
• the support member 8 can be replaced depending on the installation task. This embodiment is shown in FIGS. 2a and 2b
• FIG. 2a shows a first support member 8.1, which sets a distance di between the floating devices 4, 4.1, 4.2, which is smaller than the distance 02 for an adapted to a larger turbine generator unit 3 installation vehicle 1.
• Support element 8 8.1, 8.2 may be provided a device 10 for size adjustment. This can be an extension piece or an extendable unit.
• FIG. 4 shows a further embodiment of an inventive device
• ballast tanks 5.9, 5.10, 5.11 itself or a structure enveloping them are designed to be load-bearing, so that by a series of self-supporting modules 13.1, 13.2, 13.3 a
• size-adjustable floating device 4, 4.1, 4.2 is formed. This can be adjusted by the choice of the number of modules for the necessary Auskragin in the longitudinal direction for the floating devices 4, 4.1, 4.2 depending on the male weight of the intended for installation machine nacelle 2. Coupled are the modules 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
• connection components 14, 14n which are accessible via access openings 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4. Further embodiments of the invention are conceivable.
• the connection between the floating devices 4, 4.1, 4.2 can be made by a plurality of support elements 8, 8.1, 8.2, wherein some of the elements with respect to the predetermined by the floating devices 4, 4.1, 4.2 longitudinal axis of
• Installation vehicle can run diagonally as far as the area provided for receiving the turbine-generator unit 3 area remains free. Furthermore, it is conceivable to form the support elements 8.1, 8.2 as a support frame or by means of a streamlined profile, in order to allow an improved installation under flow. The installation vehicle is oriented so that the

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