EP3867454A1 - Procédé et installation pour l'alimentation en eau douce d'un territoire littoral - Google Patents
Procédé et installation pour l'alimentation en eau douce d'un territoire littoralInfo
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- EP3867454A1 EP3867454A1 EP19805132.8A EP19805132A EP3867454A1 EP 3867454 A1 EP3867454 A1 EP 3867454A1 EP 19805132 A EP19805132 A EP 19805132A EP 3867454 A1 EP3867454 A1 EP 3867454A1
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- collection tower
- fresh water
- tower
- resurgence
- freshwater
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
- E03B—INSTALLATIONS OR METHODS FOR OBTAINING, COLLECTING, OR DISTRIBUTING WATER
- E03B3/00—Methods or installations for obtaining or collecting drinking water or tap water
- E03B3/06—Methods or installations for obtaining or collecting drinking water or tap water from underground
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- the invention relates to the field of freshwater supply, and more
- Document EP191 1893 discloses an installation for capturing underwater sources using a rigid enclosure anchored or resting on the seabed and equipped with means allowing continuous overflow and in the open air of a fraction of the flow of the source captured by means of complex regulation making it possible to ensure that the pumping flow rate always remains lower than the flow rate of the captured source. Pipes laid on the seabed connect the installation to a ground pumping station.
- the invention particularly aims to overcome all or part of
- an objective of the invention is to provide a process, an installation and a collection tower for the supply of fresh water to a coastal area; according to one of the claims.
- FIG. 1 schematically represents the steps of a process according to the invention
- FIG. 2 schematically represents the vertical section of an installation according to the invention comprising a collection tower made of reinforced concrete;
- FIG. 3 schematically represents the vertical section of an installation according to the invention comprising a collection tower made of double skin steel.
- FIG. 4 [Fig. 5] and [Fig. 6] schematically represent an example of implementation of the invention.
- a process for supplying freshwater to the coastal territory comprises the following steps:
- a prospecting step 10 which includes the localization in the marine environment of a resurgence 100 of exploitable fresh water. Indeed, many freshwater resurgences are present in the marine environment, and they are
- This first step 10 advantageously comprises a step 12 of chemical analysis of fresh water, a step 14 of evaluation of the volume of flow of fresh water, as well as a step 16 of topographic study of the underwater environment. At the end of this first stage, an exploitable resurgence 100 of fresh water was identified in the marine environment.
- a step 20 of earthwork of the seabed This step consists in preparing the seabed 105 in order to have a perfect flatness around the exploitable resurgence 100 located during the prospecting step 10.
- this step 20 of earthmoving concrete taken at sea, possibly reinforced is used to form on the seabed 105 a strip 1 10 encircling the resurgence 100 and having a flat upper surface.
- the strip 110 has a width of between one meter and three meters, and it has a flat upper surface which has a regular shape such as for example a circle, a square or a hexagon.
- a flat base 110 is present on the seabed 105 around the exploitable resurgence 100.
- This flat base 110 is the first component of an installation 1 for water supply of a coastal area in accordance with the invention.
- the flat base 110 is preferably horizontal, to facilitate the construction of the collection installation, but not necessarily. However it is essential that the surface is as flat as possible.
- the earthmoving step 20 must be carried out with caution, in particular by excluding the use of explosives, in order to avoid the creation of faults.
- the rocky parts which could not be clipped are taken from the mass of concrete constituting the strip 1 10, even if it means significantly increasing the volume of concrete necessary to achieve satisfactory flatness.
- This earthmoving step 20 is therefore an imperative step to which the greatest care must be taken to obtain the expected results in terms of water quality.
- a step 30 of manufacturing a collection tower 120 is manufactured specifically to be installed on the flat base 1 10 built during the earthmoving phase 20 around the resurgence exploitable 100 identified during phase 10 of prospecting.
- the section of the catchment tower 120 reproduces the shape of the flat base 1 10.
- the height of the catchment tower 120 is calculated as a function of the depth of the seabed 105, of the maximum tidal range of the sea where the resurgence is located. exploitable 100, and a minimum passing height of the collection tower 120 above sea level. This passing height depends on the sea considered, in particular the height of the waves in the event of a storm.
- the maximum tidal range can be of the order of one meter and fifty centimeters, and the overhanging height can be between three meters and five meters.
- any seawater spray during storms will not pass over the top of the catchment tower 120, or at least not in large quantities.
- the collection tower 120 is an essential component of an installation 1 according to the invention for the supply of fresh water to a coastal area, and it will be described in detail later in the present disclosure, as well as its various optional characteristics making it possible to implement the invention in a particularly advantageous manner.
- a collection tower 120 was built specifically to be installed on the flat base 1 10 established during step 20 of earthwork on the seabed 105.
- the collection tower 120 is transported to the site, and deposited on the flat base 110 surrounding the exploitable resurgence 100.
- This particularly complex stage requires the use of powerful tugs for the transport phase of the capture tower 120, and divers or even submarines for the installation phase of the tower 120.
- the collection tower 120 was transported to the site and precisely deposited on the base 1 10 for which it was specifically built.
- steel rods sealed in the base 1 10 make it easier to position the collection tower 120 on the base 1 10, the steel rods being positioned outside the perimeter of the base of the collection tower 120 .
- a step 50 for sealing the base of the collection tower 120 is carried out on the connection between the base of the collection tower 120 and the base 1 10 on which it rests, preferably by means of concrete based on cement taken at sea. When steel rods have been sealed in the base 1 10, they are embedded in the concrete block ensuring the sealing, which increases the efficiency of the installation anchor.
- the connection between the collection tower 120 and the base 110 being ensured, the collection tower 120 is filled with water, which is either fresh water coming from resurgence 100, or sea water.
- a step 60 of equipment installation and connection During this phase, all the equipment of the catchment tower 120 is connected either to elements of the catchment tower 120 itself, or to a pontoon 125 floating on the surface of the fresh water contained in the catchment yard 120 These elements include at least one pump 130, and all the elements necessary for the operation of the pump 130 such as motors, transformers.
- electronic and / or luminous communication, surveillance and / or security, lighting or even accommodation equipment can be installed on the tower 120 or on any floating pontoon 125.
- the collection tower 120 is also connected at a land station on the coast.
- the connection consists in particular in connecting the pump or pumps 130 to the earth station by means of a fresh water drainage network.
- This freshwater drainage network is advantageously made of flexible pipes, possibly reinforced.
- the connection also concerns the power supply of the collection tower 120, and possibly the connection to communication networks by means of waterproof shielded cables.
- the cables and / or the pipes and hoses are submerged and moored and / or anchored to the bottom of the sea.
- connection step 60 the installation 1 for supplying fresh water to a coastal area is operational.
- An operating step 70 the earth station is supplied with fresh water pumped by the pump or pumps 130 in the fresh water contained in the collection tower 120.
- the section of an installation 1 according to the invention is schematically shown in FIG. 2, the scales not being respected.
- the installation 1 comprises a collection tower 120 placed on a base 110, the latter being placed on the seabed 105 and encircling a freshwater resurgence 100.
- the diameter of the resurgence 100 is for example between fifteen meters and forty meters, which is also the order of magnitude of the height of the capture tower 120.
- the complexity of the installation of the capture tower 120 increases according to its height and it is not planned to exceed sixty meters in height.
- the collection tower 120 is constructed of reinforced concrete, advantageously with vertical walls. She is
- the density of the fresh water contained in the structure 120 is lower than the density of the sea salt water, in the embodiment shown the level of fresh water in the collection tower 120 East
- a pontoon 125 floats on the surface of the fresh water.
- the pumping rate is designed to be ten percent lower than the expected fresh water rate, in order to maintain a constant level.
- the overflow of fresh water is discharged by overflowing above the walls of the collection tower 120, or optionally through hatches provided for this purpose in the upper part of the collection tower 120.
- Such hatches are kept closed by seawater which exerts pressure on them, and open automatically when the seawater no longer exerts this pressure. They thus make it possible to maintain a constant difference between the level of fresh water in the collection tower and the sea level, which allows the installation not to disturb the hydraulic balance of the resurgence, in particular by avoiding too large pressure variations at the outlet of the resurgence.
- one or more pumps 130 are connected to the pontoon 125.
- Each pump 130 weighs approximately four to six tonnes with its chassis, its motor and its coupling.
- the pumps 130 go up and down with the floating pontoon 125 when the level of the fresh water varies, they can therefore pump the water through suction strainers positioned at a constant depth, for example between one meter and two meters .
- Each pump can reach a flow rate of the order of two thousand five hundred to four thousand cubic meters per hour, and is connected by means of a distribution manifold to a plurality of flexible pipe pipes whose diameter is of the order from ten inches, and within each of which circulates a flow of ten thousand to fifteen thousand liters of fresh water per minute.
- discharge pumps 130 placed on the collection tower 120 allows installation to be placed several hundred meters from the coast and eliminates the risk of cavitation or defusing of suction pumps which would be installed in a land pumping station.
- the pumps 130 requiring a supply of several hundred kilowatts, the collection tower 120 is supplied with high voltage.
- a container air-conditioned installed on pontoon 125 is sufficient to contain electrical panels, transformers and other electrical equipment.
- the collection tower 120 can be made of double skin steel.
- the mass of the collection tower 120 is then reduced by a factor of between four and ten compared to the mass of a tower made of reinforced concrete, which simplifies the transport and installation of the tower 120.
- the shape of the double-skinned steel collection tower 120 can be more complex than that of a concrete tower.
- the collection tower 120 can have a vertical section of trapezoidal shape, as shown diagrammatically in FIG. 3, which makes it possible to reduce the surface of the fresh water at the top of the tower 120 and therefore to facilitate the installation of equipment, such as for example a pump 130 on a pontoon 125 floating on the surface of the fresh water.
- the collection tower 120 can also have a horizontal section of a shape adapted to the shape of the resurgence for which it was specifically manufactured.
- Such a double-skinned steel collection tower 120 is
- the invention also relates to any collection tower 120
- fresh water supply according to the invention or in an installation 1 for fresh water supply according to the invention.
- the collection tower 120 has the shape of a pyramid of square section, surmounted by a platform.
- the length of the side of the square is about fourteen meters at the top of the pyramid, and forty-four meters at its base.
- the height of the pyramid is about thirty-two meters.
- the pyramid is constructed of twelve sheet steel millimeters thick. It comprises two shells separated from one another by a distance of between one and two meters and connected to one another by spacers not shown.
- the space between the two shells is closed in a sealed manner, still by means of steel sheet.
- the volume of air between the two hulls ensures flotation which facilitates transport by reducing the number and volume of the buoys or tubes used.
- the tower is therefore solid, light and easy to transport using ships and / or tugs.
- the outer and inner hulls have an identical slope, but this is not essential or limiting: what is important is that the volume of space between the two hulls is in accordance with the calculations carried out to facilitate transport of the collection tower 120.
- the shape of the pyramid makes it possible to contain a large volume of fresh water, while limiting the surface exposed to waves and bad weather.
- the height of the pyramid is calculated so that the top of the shell
- the top of the inner hull is higher than the sea level at high tide by a height determined by the maritime conditions of the place in question. In this case, it is the Mediterranean Sea with about one and a half meters of tidal range, and the top of the inner hull is extended by about two meters and fifty centimeters above sea level at high tide.
- a fixed platform which is advantageously also made of sheet steel, is placed at the top of the inner shell.
- On the platform are installed containers in which the pumps, and electrical or communication equipment are located.
- a railing is placed on the periphery of the platform, more than one meter high, in this case two meters. The railing limits the amount of spray that can reach the platform, and it can advantageously have a curved surface to serve as a deflector in the event of a storm, as shown in the figures.
- the platform protrudes from the inner shell and extends to plumb with the top of the outer shell. Openings or hatches are placed in the part of the platform that protrudes from the top of the inner hull, in order to allow spray and rainwater to escape.
- a path of sheet steel plate and preferably substantially horizontal closes the space between the top of the outer shell and the inner shell. Poles are placed around the perimeter of the path, between the path and the platform, to strengthen the structure, but also to serve as a breakwater.
- the path is not shown, so as to better distinguish the pyramidal shape from the lower part of the inner shell.
- the inner shell has a slope identical to the outer shell to the top of the latter, then it is vertical to the platform.
- other forms are possible within the scope of the invention.
- the collection tower 120 is positioned on the flat upper surface of a concrete base surrounding the resurgence over a width of between two and three meters, depending on the spacing chosen between the two shells at the base of the tower.
- the base is shown horizontal, but this is not imperative, what is essential is that the surface of the base is flat, so as to be able to ensure a good seal.
- the fresh water is collected in a closed enclosure - the inner shell - which protects it from any
- This enclosure has a shape limiting wave shocks which are also broken by breakwater poles.
- the tower equipped with discharge pumps, is several hundred meters from the coast. All its equipment is protected but remains easily accessible, and sealing is facilitated by the construction of a concrete footing forming a band around the resurgence having a flat surface on which the collection tower 120 rests. Steel rods are sealed in the concrete base, and embedded in the concrete block used to seal the junction of the base / collection tower 120.
- An installation 1 according to the invention is generally located at a
- distance from the coast in the order of a few hundred meters, up to more than a kilometer, and is indicated by day and night light signals.
- a method or an installation 1 according to the invention thus makes it possible to supply fresh water to a coastal area in a particularly simple and economical manner while minimizing the impact on the environment.
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PCT/EP2019/025351 WO2020078588A1 (fr) | 2018-10-17 | 2019-10-17 | Procédé et installation pour l'alimentation en eau douce d'un territoire littoral |
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FR2785001B3 (fr) | 1998-10-21 | 2001-01-12 | Hydro Logic | Dispositif de captage de resurgences sous-marines d'eau douce |
EP1911893A1 (fr) | 2006-10-13 | 2008-04-16 | Joel Fontaine | Système de captage de sources sous-marines |
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