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Floating wind turbine platform with ballast control and water entrapment plate systems
A floating wind turbine platform includes at least three stabilizing columns, where each stabilizing column has an internal volume for containing ballast. The floating wind turbine platform also includes a tower having mounted in vertical alignment over one of the columns, a turbine rotor coupled to an electrical generator mounted proximate to the upper end of the tower, main beams interconnected to the stabilizing columns, and water-entrapment plates attached to the lower ends of the stabilizing columns. The floating wind turbine platform further includes a ballast control system including an alignment sensor configured to detect a rotation of the tower, and a controller coupled to the alignment sensor for directing a transfer of the ballast from an internal volume of one column to another column upon the alignment sensor detecting rotation of the tower to adjust a vertical alignment of the tower.
Floating wind turbine platform with ballast control and water entrapment plate systems
A floating wind turbine platform includes at least three stabilizing columns, where each stabilizing column has an internal volume for containing ballast. The floating wind turbine platform also includes a tower having mounted in vertical alignment over one of the columns, a turbine rotor coupled to an electrical generator mounted proximate to the upper end of the tower, main beams interconnected to the stabilizing columns, and water-entrapment plates attached to the lower ends of the stabilizing columns. The floating wind turbine platform further includes a ballast control system including an alignment sensor configured to detect a rotation of the tower, and a controller coupled to the alignment sensor for directing a transfer of the ballast from an internal volume of one column to another column upon the alignment sensor detecting rotation of the tower to adjust a vertical alignment of the tower.
Floating wind turbine platform with ballast control and water entrapment plate systems
RODDIER DOMINIQUE (author) / CERMELLI CHRISTIAN (author)
2016-09-20
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC:
F03D
Windkraftmaschinen
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WIND MOTORS
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B63B
Schiffe oder sonstige Wasserfahrzeuge
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SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS
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E02B
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
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Wasserbau
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E04H
Gebäude oder ähnliche Bauwerke für besondere Zwecke
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BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES
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H02P
CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS
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Steuern oder Regeln von elektrischen Motoren, elektrischen Generatoren, dynamoelektrischen Umformern
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