EP3207186A1 - Foundation of an offshore structure - Google Patents
Foundation of an offshore structureInfo
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- EP3207186A1 EP3207186A1 EP15778340.8A EP15778340A EP3207186A1 EP 3207186 A1 EP3207186 A1 EP 3207186A1 EP 15778340 A EP15778340 A EP 15778340A EP 3207186 A1 EP3207186 A1 EP 3207186A1
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- the present invention relates to a foundation system for the foundation of an offshore structure. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for establishing an offshore structure and an offshore structure with a corresponding foundation system.
- Offshore structures within the meaning of the present invention are, for example, substations, wind power plants or drilling or production platforms.
- a pile foundation in the seabed is required lent.
- Common foundation types are, for example, so-called monopiles, jackets, tripods or tripiles.
- jackets in the base area are three- or four-sided truss structures made of steel tubes, the upper end of which protrudes from the sea after installation.
- a jacket can e.g. a conventional wind turbine, a transformer platform or a drilling platform are built.
- monopiles are preferably used when founding wind turbines in water depths of up to 35 m, since this type of foundation is less expensive.
- at least one substation of the wind turbine is assigned and positioned in the immediate vicinity of the wind turbine.
- the voltage generated by the wind turbine can be transformed from, for example, 33 kV to 155 kV and rectified in order to be able to be transmitted over large distances with low loss by means of high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmissions.
- HVDC high-voltage direct-current
- monopiles are also used for the establishment of substations, since their installation, as described above, is much simpler than, for example, the installation of a jacket.
- the present invention is therefore based on the object of providing a foundation system for offshore structures, by means of which low-cost and fast offshore structures can be established, and which furthermore have a high degree of stability, so that the offshore founded by means of the foundation system according to the invention Buildings have smaller vibration amplitudes. It is another object of the present invention to provide a low-cost, fast-erecting and stable offshore structure and method for constructing such an offshore structure.
- the foundation system according to the invention for the foundation of an offshore structure comprises a monopile with an anchoring section which can be anchored in the seabed and a connecting section arranged at the opposite end.
- the foundation system further comprises a directly connectable to the connecting portion of the monopile or indirectly via a transition piece connectable and above the water surface anordenba- re platform structure.
- the foundation system according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises at least two stabilizing devices, which can be directly connected to the platform structure or indirectly via the transition piece with the platform structure and brought into contact with the seabed, so that tensile and / or compressive forces between the seabed and the platform structure are transferable by means of stabilizing means.
- stabilizing devices attachment points of the stabilization devices on the platform structure or on the transition piece, together with the connecting portion of the monopile in the mounted state of the foundation system, span a plane with a horizontal extension component.
- the stabilizers can be arranged symmetrically to the monopile or asymmetrically to the monopile. Furthermore, the monopile can be arranged centric or eccentric to the stabilizers.
- the foundation system may comprise at least three stabilization devices, which can be connected to the platform directly or directly to the platform via the transition piece and can be brought into contact with the seabed.
- the attachment points of the stabilizers on the platform structure or on the transition piece then clamp in the mounted state of the foundation system on a plane having a horizontal extension component.
- the attachment points span a horizontal plane or the plane spanned by the attachment points has a horizontal extension component, horizontal swaying movements of the platform structure caused by horizontal forces (wind and waves) can occur. counteracted and reduced by means of the stabilizers.
- the stabilizing devices the intrinsic oscillation frequency of the offshore structure established by means of the foundation system according to the invention is increased in a region which is outside the customary wave frequency spectrum so that resonant rocking of the offshore structure by wind and / or waves is avoided , Further, by providing the stabilizers, it is achieved that even larger offshore structures can be established on monopiles, without having to accept a lower stability of the offshore structure.
- a jacket must be used to establish the offshore structure in order to achieve a desired stability.
- the establishment of an offshore structure with the aid of a monopile is much simpler, less time-consuming and less expensive than the creation of an offshore structure by means of a jacket.
- the mutual distance of the attachment points to each other is preferably greater than the cross-sectional dimension of the monopile.
- increased stabilization forces can be transmitted to the platform structure by the stabilizers.
- the stabilization devices can be indirectly connected to the platform structure via a transition piece, that is to say via a coupling device.
- the foundation system comprises three stabilizers
- the stabilizers and more specifically the attachment points of the stabilizers to the platform structure and / or to the transition piece, are arranged at three vertices of a triangle.
- four stabilizing devices can in plan view of the foundation system, the contact points of the stabilization devices to the platform structure and / or be arranged at the transition piece at vertices of a rectangle or a square or in general a square polygon. Only by the feature that the contact points of the stabilizing devices with the platform structure and / or with the transition piece span a plane with a horizontal extension component, arbitrarily oriented horizontal forces can be absorbed by the stabilizers, so that an excessive movement of the offshore structure by means of stabilization facilities is prevented.
- the stabilization devices run perpendicularly from the platform structure and / or from the transition piece in the direction of the seabed. Due to the vertical extension of the stabilization devices, forces exerted on the offshore structure by means of wind and / or waves can be absorbed particularly effectively by the stabilization devices.
- the stabilizing devices are each designed as stabilizing supports, which are displaceably connected to the platform structure and / or with the transition piece and can be lowered from the platform structure and / or the transition piece to the seabed.
- the stabilizing supports with the platform structure and / or with the transition piece can be locked, so that on the respective stabilizing supports axially extending compressive forces and shear forces can be transmitted to the seabed.
- An appropriate design of the foundation system offers the advantage that no anchoring of the stabilization devices in the seabed or in the seabed are absolutely necessary to counteract fluctuations in the offshore structure.
- the installation of the offshore structure is very simple, because the offshore structure only needs to be set down on the monopile or on a platform held by the monopile and connected thereto, whereupon the stabilization supports, for example, mounted in guide sleeves, rest on the sea. Resboden be lowered to be locked after contact with the seabed with the platform structure and / or with the transition piece.
- the stabilization devices can each be connected to the seabed, so that tensile forces and compressive forces between the seabed and the platform structure can be transmitted via the respective stabilization devices.
- the respective connections can be realized, for example, via anchors.
- the stability of the offshore structure increases again, since a fluctuating motion can be compensated by a pressure-loaded stabilizer and one of these oppositely arranged on train loaded stabilizers.
- the stabilizing devices are each designed as flexible tension elements, which are each connectable to the seabed.
- a pulling element can be an anchor line, an anchor chain or an anchor cable or, in general, a flexible tension element.
- An embodiment of the stabilization devices as tension elements offers the advantage that the platform structure and / or the coupling piece carrying it can be constructed in a structurally simple manner, since no stabilization supports must be displaceably connected to the platform structure and / or to the transition piece.
- the tension elements may be wound on a roll prior to fixation in the seabed, so that after connecting the offshore structure with the monopile or with the platform structure, the tension elements are unwound from the rollers until they are in contact with the seabed, whereupon the Tensile elements are connected to the seabed in a suitable manner.
- the foundation system comprises a number of tie rods corresponding number of foundation piles, each one with a Falling anchors connected to the traction elements and in each case one encapsulation column which is cast in situ within the seabed and extends over a length within the seabed.
- a drop anchor and at least one tension element connected to the fall anchor an anchor point can be placed in the seabed on which the tension element is struck.
- the fall anchor is sized, for example, in terms of its mass and geometry so that it penetrates due to its kinetic energy in free fall to a predetermined depth in the seabed. This takes in the case of this ailing anchorage trunk or the attached to this tension element. On the tension element, one or more Vergussmassetechnischen be attached, which are also taken from the fall anchor.
- a curable potting compound for example a concrete curable under water, is then pressed under pressure into the firing channel, the tension elements simultaneously serving to reinforce the potting mass column thus produced in situ.
- a so-called torpedo pile which has a torpedo-shaped base body with a Eindringpitze, and the end is provided with a plurality of torpedo wings for the purpose of stabilization.
- the torpedo body may for example be hollow and comprise one or more ballast chambers, which can be filled with a ballast.
- the advantage is achieved that a relaxation of the building to be built can be done on one or more tension elements, which naturally leaves a certain amount of space in the placement of the offshore structure, so that the setting of the foundation piles not by a template or the underwater structure of the building is specified.
- a corresponding design of the foundation system eliminates the setting of piles by means of piling.
- the process of setting the torpedo / fall arrester is unique, whereas ramming piles is associated with a recurring sound entry into the marine environment.
- a plurality of traction elements can also be attached to a fall anchor, although the following is a tension element in each case.
- a tension element is a flexible tension element which can transmit only tensile forces, but not compressive forces.
- the fall anchor is designed as a stimulable fall anchor, wherein the fall anchor liquefies in an excited state, the seabed in a vicinity of the fall anchor, so that penetration of the fall anchor is supported in the seabed.
- An excited state of the fall anchor may in particular be a state in which the fall anchor vibrates, so that the seabed is liquefied in the vicinity of the drop anchor.
- the anchor vibrations may be generated by an internally mounted imbalance mass upon impact or impact on the seafloor with an internal suspension within the anchor so that the internal frequency of vibration of the soil excitation frequency is typically in the range 15-45Hz , corresponds.
- the foundation pile comprises a protective casing extending over a partial length of the potting column.
- the foundation pile comprises a sheet pile enclosure which extends over a partial length of the casting slurry column.
- the foundation system comprises a tensioning device, by means of which the tension elements connected to the seabed can be subjected to force.
- a further increased stability of the offshore structure can be achieved.
- the platform structure is designed as a transformer and / or the transformer comprises the platform structure.
- an offshore structure comprising a foundation system as described above, wherein the offshore structure is positioned on and connected to the monopile of the foundation system, the stabilization means being in contact with the seabed. All advantageous embodiments, which are described in connection with the foundation system, can of course also be advantageous embodiments of the offshore structure.
- the object underlying the invention is achieved by a method for establishing an offshore structure, the method comprising the following method steps:
- the method of establishing an offshore structure using a foundation system comprising a number of foundation piles corresponding to the number of tension members, each casting a fall anchor connected to one of the tension members and one each in-situ within the seabed and within the seabed comprising a potting mass column extending over a length, having the following further process steps:
- the displacement channel generated by the fall anchor when immersed in the sediment of the seabed / seabed is called.
- the method has the advantage over conventional pile foundations that a bracing of the building to be erected can take place on one or more tension elements, which naturally leaves a certain amount of freedom in the placement of the offshore structure, so that the setting of the foundation piles is not achieved by a template or the underwater structure of the building is given.
- the potting compound is introduced over at least a partial length of the tension element in the firing channel, wherein the tension element remains in the cured potting compound.
- the tension element serves on the one hand the reinforcement of the potting compound, on the other hand, the bracing of the offshore structure to be built. In this case, the depth to be reached by the fall arrester is reduced, since the necessary for bracing the main structure on the tension element Liehe jacket friction is reduced and is supplied by the Vergussmasse emotions.
- the fall anchor is expediently provided with ballast prior to dropping off, with the ballast mass being chosen such that the fall anchor penetrates into the seabed up to a viable soil horizon.
- the drop anchor is suspended from a discharge line and the dropping takes place by actuating a triggering mechanism on the discharge line.
- the fall anchor is struck in this case both on the discharge line as well as on one or more tension members.
- the drop anchor may be inserted through a protective tube or sheet pile enclosure into the seabed with the protective tube or sheet pile enclosure previously set.
- the seabed may be fluidized below the protective tube or within the sheet pile enclosure prior to dropping the fall anchor by injection of compressed air or water.
- the protective tube is pumped empty before the drop anchor, so that the kinetic energy with which the fall anchor can penetrate into the seabed significantly increases.
- the protective tube which may extend beyond the seabed, for example, can be pumped full of liquid, so that an increased hydrostatic pressure is built up at the base of the tube through the liquid column, which facilitates the penetration of the drop anchor into the seabed.
- the liquid column can be adjusted accordingly, for example, with regard to its specific weight.
- Figure 1 a schematic representation of an established by means of the foundation system according to the invention offshore structure
- Figure 2 An offshore structure based on a foundation system according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention.
- like reference numerals denote like components or like features, so that a description made with respect to a figure with respect to a component also applies to the other figures, so that a repetitive description is avoided.
- FIG. 1 shows an offshore structure 1, which is founded on the seabed U by means of a foundation system according to the invention.
- the foundation system has a monopile 10 with an anchoring section 11 that can be anchored in the seabed U and a connecting section 12 opposite the anchoring section 11.
- the anchoring portion 1 1 is set, for example, by ramming or flushing in the seabed U.
- the foundation system according to the invention further comprises a connectable to the connecting portion 12 of the monopile 10 platform structure 3.
- the platform structure 3 is connected directly to the monopile 10.
- the platform structure 3 is connected to a between the monopile 10 and the platform structure 3 arranged transition piece. A corresponding transition piece is not shown in the figures.
- connection structure 2 is placed in the form of a substation 2.
- Substation 3 comprises a large number of individual components, which allow the weight of the substation to easily rise to over 1000 tonnes.
- connection structure 2 is formed in the form of a substation 2.
- connection structure 2 according to the invention as Windkraf tan leach or be designed as a drilling or production platform.
- the foundation system according to the invention comprises at least two stabilization devices 20.
- the stabilization devices 20 are designed as support feet or as stabilization supports 21.
- the stabilizing supports 21 are each directly with the platform structure 3 connected and lowered to the seabed U.
- the stabilizing supports 21 are already set down on the seabed U. The installation can take place in such a way that the platform structure 3 is placed on the connecting section 12 of the monopile 10, in which state the stabilizing supports 21 in guide sleeves of the platform structure 3 are in an upper position, so that they are not downwardly in Towards the bottom of the sea U.
- the stabilizing supports 21 After connecting the platform structure 3 with the monopile 10, the stabilizing supports 21 are lowered onto the seabed U, so that they are in contact with the seabed U. Subsequently, the stabilizing supports 21 are locked to the platform structure 3, so that on the respective stabilizing supports 21 axially extending thrust forces on the seabed U are transferable. Since the guide sleeves on the platform structure 3 are spaced apart such that they form a plane with a horizontal extension component, in the present example a horizontal plane, and the stabilizing supports 21 are arranged at the four corners of the platform structure 3, horizontal forces, the act on the monopile 10 or on the substation 2, are collected by the stabilizing supports 21. This horizontal force can be caused for example by wind, which acts on the monopile 10 and the substation 2.
- the stabilizing supports 21 also cause the oscillation frequency of the offshore structure to change such that it lies outside the usual wave frequency spectrum.
- the resonant frequency of the offshore structure 1 established by means of the foundation system according to the invention is above 0.25 Hz and usually also above 0.3 Hz.
- FIG. 2 shows an offshore structure 1 that is founded on the seabed U by means of a foundation system according to a further embodiment of the present invention.
- the stabilizers 20 are formed as flexible tension elements 22 which are connectable to the seabed U.
- Tension elements 22 in the sense of the present invention are anchorage 22, anchor cables 22, anchor chains 22 or, in general, flexible tension elements 22.
- Flexible tension elements 22 in the sense of the present invention are tension elements via which tensile forces, but no shear forces can be transmitted.
- the foundation system also includes four drop anchors 31 in the form of four torpedo sections 31 which are each connected to a tension element 22.
- the drop anchors 31 are part of foundation piles 30, which in addition to the drop anchor 31 include potting columns 32.
- the installation of the foundation system is such that, after connecting the platform structure 3 with the connecting portion 12 of the monopile 10, the respective fall anchors 31 are dropped from a predetermined height into the seabed U with tension members 22 connected to them, so that the drop anchors 31 Form shot channel.
- a curable potting compound is introduced, which form the Vergussmasstäulen 32 shown in Figure 2. Consequently, only tensile forces can be transmitted via the tension elements 22, whereby due to the arrangement of the attachment points of the tension elements 22 on the platform structure 3 horizontal forces can be compensated from any direction, since the attachment points of the tension elements 22 on the platform structure 3 span a plane with a horizontal extension component ,
- the foundation system further comprises a clamping device, not shown in Figure 2, by means of which the tension elements 22 can be tensioned, whereby the stability of the founded by means of the foundation system offshore structure 1 increases again.
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