2334 results about "Floating platform" patented technology

Innovative new methods in connection with lighter-than-air (LTA) free floating platforms, of facilitating legal transmitter operation, platform flight termination when appropriate, environmentally acceptable landing, and recovery of these devices are provided. The new systems and methods relate to rise rate control, geo-location from a LTA platform including landed payload and ground-based vehicle locations, and steerable recovery systems.

Innovative new methods in connection with lighter-than-air (LTA) free floating platforms, of facilitating legal transmitter operation, platform flight termination when appropriate, environmentally acceptable landing, and recovery of these devices are provided. The new systems and methods relate to rise rate control, geo-location from a LTA platform including landed payload and ground-based vehicle locations, and steerable recovery systems.

The invention relates to the field of natural gas chemical industry, in particular to a natural gas desulfurization process suitable for an offshore floating platform. The natural gas desulfurizationprocess comprises a reactor, a re-reactor and a centrifugal machine; acid gas coming from a boundary region is directly introduced into the reactor, a trivalent complex iron catalyst enters the re-reactor, the trivalent complex iron catalyst at the bottom of the re-reactor enters the reactor under the control of a valve and a pipeline, a chemical reaction is then carried out, divalent complex ironobtained by means of the reaction is centrifuged, the divalent complex iron is conveyed to an electrochemical regeneration device by means of a regenerative feed pump so as to complete the regeneration, and the regenerated trivalent complex iron catalyst is returned to the re-reactor by means of a circulation pump. The natural gas desulfurization process is simple in technological process, smallin equipment size and compact in structure, and adapts to the condition limit of limited production space of offshore floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG).

A deepwater windpower plant (DWP) has a tension leg-type floating platform with an evacuable base for adjusting its buoyancy for installation at ocean depths ranging from 40 meters up to 1.5 kilometers and more. The DWP has a typical offshore wind turbine assembled close to shore which is then towed to a desired installation site on the ocean, and held in place by a gravity anchoring base (GAB), to which an evacuable portion or space of the DWP platform is anchored. The GAB has upwardly extending mooring tethers and a power cable which are brought to the ocean surface by attached buoys. The GAB is sunk to the ocean floor at the installation site under controlled conditions so that the GAB lands flat on the ocean floor. As the GAB sinks to the ocean floor, the mooring tethers and power cable are pulled to the surface by their respective buoys. The GAB is loaded with heavy ballast material that can be dropped from barges on the ocean surface into the upwardly open GAB below the barges.

A floating offshore wind turbine and a floating offshore wind farm with at least one floating offshore wind turbine are provided. The floating offshore wind turbine includes a floating platform anchored to an underwater ground, a wind turbine mounted on the floating platform, and a drive. The drive is adapted to horizontally move the floating platform. Further a method for positioning a floating offshore wind turbine is provided.

A machine and a process to produce compressed air by sea waves, using the weight of the floating platform with its fixture using its up and down movement to compress air in both directions to absorb the maximum energy of that wave in a direct drive bidirectional pump with a single piston wherein the kinetic energy and wave bouncy force is used to compress ambient air as stored energy. This unique arrangement doubles air volume for compression in both directions in any single wave curve, doubles the energy production in both upper and lower chambers of the pump and multiplies the “psi” based on the float thrust area against the size of the piston in the pump. The preferred embodiment can be used as a stand alone unit as well as in array formation for the desired output 24 / 7.

A machine tool for machining and testing the non-spherical optical part features that its main body has the symmetrical gantry frame structure with X, Y, Z and C axises designed modularly, the milling head or polishing mechanism is installed to the Z-axis bench, and the floating platform equipped with the in-line measuring and error-measuring unit for plane and parallel to Y axis is arranged on main body. Its advantage is high machining precision.

The invention discloses a method for developing natural gas hydrate, which comprises that building developing well, horizontal well and collecting well, building floating platform and natural gas hydrate developer on sea, building sea concentration heater, preparing hot salt water, decomposing natural gas hydrate and collecting natural gas. And the inventive device comprises a sea floating platform, a developing well, a collecting well, a horizontal well, a hydrate recycling system, a fresh water groove, a hot salt water tube, a hot salt water pump, and a seawater concentrating heater. The invention has simple process, low energy consumption and low cost, without pollution.

Subsea wells are drilled and completed with an offshore floating platform in a manner that allows simultaneous work on more than one well. A first well is drilled and cased. Then a tubing hanger is run through a drilling riser and landed in the wellhead housing. Then, with the same floating platform, the drilling riser is disconnected and moved to a second well. While performing operations on the second well, the operator lowers a production tree from the floating platform on a lift line, and connects it to the first wellhead housing. An ROV assisted subsea plug removal tool is used for plug removal and setting operations. Seabed separation is configured upstream of a production choke valve.

Aspects of an embodiment of a check valve turbine assembly include a rotation platform having an axis of rotation, a vertical member concentrically secured to the rotation platform about the axis of rotation, a rotatable sail assembly attached to the vertical member that includes a frame, a hinge beam, and a rotatable sub-sail assembly. The sub-sail assembly includes a stem beam, a sub-sail grid frame attached to the stem beam, and a plurality of flaps rotatably attached to the sub-sail grid frame and configured to move between a closed position and an open position relative to the sub frame. Aspects of a marine check valve turbine include a free-floating platform structure configured with an upper surface at or near a water surface and a vertical member secured to the platform structure about an axis of rotation and configured to extend from the upper surface of the platform structure.

The invention discloses a fully automatic mobile hydraulic lifting platform machine. The machine comprises a chassis, a travelling drive device, a lifting device, hydraulic and electrically controlled systems and a charging device, wherein the lower surface of the chassis is provided with wheels, the travelling drive device and a braking device, the lifting device, the hydraulic system, a steering system, a operation system, a control system, the charging device and a foot device are arranged on the chassis, the chassis and a platform are provided with a safety device and a measurement system, and the lifting device is provided with a floating platform device. The machine of the invention can bear the rated weight according to the demand; and the travelling mechanism thereof can realize forth-back travelling and left-right travelling, 90 degrees of translation and crab motion, and the lifting platform device can move longitudinally and transversely, rotates and go up and down freely. Owning to various movement choices, the degrees of mechanization and automation are high, and the machine can change according to different conditions and accurately and timely position the installation position of the chassis, thus increasing the efficiency, ensuring the satisfy and satisfying the demand of the railway vehicle manufacture and assembly production line.

A method and system of operating a landing string utilized on a floating platform. The landing string is disposed within a marine riser, with the marine riser being connected to a subsea production tree, and wherein the subsea production tree contains internal conduits communicating controls through a series of stab passageways. The method comprises providing a tubing hanger operatively connected to the landing string, delivering hydraulic or electrical controls from the floating platform through a control system umbilical to a junction plate operatively attached to the subsea production tree. The method further comprises landing the tubing hanger into the subsea production tree, establishing control of the tubing hanger by providing the hydraulic controls to the tubing hanger with the series of stab passageways through the subsea production tree, and establishing control of the completion bottom hole assembly with the stab passageways. In the preferred embodiment, the landing string has attached thereto a completion bottom hole assembly that will be placed in the well.

An open-air filtration device cleans swimming pools and hot tubs in an efficient, reliable manner. An open-air filter with a suction chamber unit comprises two scrubbing brushes and an impeller powered by a motor drive. Water containing debris is pumped to a level above the swimming pool or hot tub surface. The debris containing water is discharged through a spout into a filter tube. A filter element associated with the filter tube, and open to atmosphere filters the debris containing water by gravitational forces solely. The spout and filter tube are, optionally, attached to a pole that manually propels the suction unit. They may alternatively be attached to a floating platform that floats on the water surface of the pool or hot tub. If filter efficiency decreases, the water level in the filter tube rises, indicating that the filter element must be replaced. A rise in water level is visually observed or detected automatically and communicated using a visible or audible alarm.

A floating type wave power generation system is characterized in that the system consists of eight sets of lever-type floating bodies and a hydraulic energy accumulation converter with the hydraulic pump function. On a floating workbench 7, eight sets of levers 2 and a floating body 1 are connected through supporting hinge bearers 10 and 11; in this way, the highly undulating displacement caused by waves can be converted to relatively lesser displacement of a piston rod 4, and the minor force that the floating body bears can be converted through the lever to the major force on the piston rod. The piston rod drives a hydraulic tank 3 to switch and transmit the hydraulic energy through a connecting oil pipe5, a high-pressure oil pipe6, a hydraulic oil tank and four no-return valves of each set to a hydraulic motor in a hydraulic power generation control chamber 9; in this way the generator is driven to work. The present system can absorb, convert and accumulate the intermittent unstable wave energy in a highly effective way and can buffer the destructive effect of waves. The floating platform can be suitable to different marine space by adjusting the length of an anchor chain 8. And in various sea conditions, kinetic energy and potential energy possessed by waves in the sea surface can be converted and accumulated as hydraulic mechanical energy by utilization of the wave drop; thus the generator is driven to unremittingly provide electric power.

Disclosed are compliant variable tension risers (106) to connect deep-water subsea wellheads (102) to a single floating platform (104) in wet tree or dry try systems. The variable tension risers (106) allow several subsea wellheads (102), in water depths from 1220 to 3050 meters, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to twice the depth or more, to tie back to a single floating platform (104). Also disclosed are methods to counter buoyancy and install variable tension risers using a weighted chain ballast line (228, 230).

The invention discloses a distributed spacecraft ground simulation system and a method for realizing same, belonging to the technical field of space flight and aviation. The invention aims at solving the problems that the configuration of the simulation platform of a prior distributed spacecraft is solidified and the expandability is bad. The invention adopts a one-dimensional rotational base air floated platform which is based on a plane two-dimensional parallel motion and is perpendicular to a parallel motion plane. By configuring a cooling air thrustor and a counteractive flywheel as an executing mechanism and configuring a high-precision optical fibre gyro, an x-axle accelerometer and a Y-axle accelerometer as a sensing component, the definition of a high-precision relative position and the standardization of an initiate posture can be realized by a high-precision local GPS positioning system, and other hardware systems can be configured according to different tasks, thereby forming a multi-spacecraft ground simulation system. The invention can realize the ground simulation multi-spacecraft system by configuring different practical hardwares or simulators according to the task of the spacecraft, thereby having strong expansion capability and applicability.

The present invention includes a nontwisted composite tether comprising one or more composite rods encased in a jacket and a method for manufacturing same. A portion of the rods may be bundled into one or more strands, provided however that the rods comprising the strands are not twisted into twisted strands in the assembled nontwisted tether. Such untwisted strands, if any, additionally are not twisted relative to each other. Temporary and / or permanent buoyancy may be to the tether. The present invention includes methods for preparing, transporting, and installing a composite tether on a floating platform. The tether, preferably assembled at a waterfront, is launched into the water and towed to an offshore installation site, where the tether is upended and connected via a bottom end connector on the tether to an anchor foundation in the seabed and connected a top end connector on the tether to the floating platform.

A tensioner system for a top-tensioned riser in a floating platform includes a hydro-pneumatic tensioner assembly resiliently mounted to the floating platform, and a riser support conductor surrounding the riser coaxially, wherein the support conductor conveys a pull-type tensional force from the hydro-pneumatic tensioner assembly to the riser through a riser conductor coupling assembly that engages the tensioner assembly and the riser support conductor to convey the tensional force. A riser tension joint support assembly conveys the tensional force from the riser support conductor to a riser tension joint on the riser. The tensioner assembly compensates for relative platform motion including pitch, heave, and yaw. Also a reactive load assembly is mounted to the platform and reacts to a two-point dynamic bending moment imposed on the riser support conductor, while resisting riser support conductor rotation.

A seismic survey system records seismic signals during a marine seismic survey. The system includes first and second clusters, each including a set of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); each cluster being associated with a corresponding first or second unmanned surface vehicle (USV); and a central control unit located on a floating platform and configured to control the first and second USVs. The first USV follows its own path and the first cluster follows the first USV independent of the second USV or the second cluster.

Disclosed are compliant variable tension risers (106) to connect deep-water subsea wellheads (102) to a single floating platform (104) in wet tree or dry try systems. The variable tension risers (106) allow several subsea wellheads (102), in water depths from 1220 to 3050 meters, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to twice the depth or more, to tie back to a single floating platform (104). Also disclosed are methods to counter buoyancy and install variable tension risers using a weighted chain ballast line (228, 230).

A deck mounted pull riser tensioning system for a floating platform or vessel includes at least two cylinders having a cylinder body supported at an upper or lower end on a deck or tensioner support structure of the platform or vessel in spaced apart relation with the cylinder rods extending downwardly from the cylinder body, or vice versa. A load structure member is connected to lower ends of the cylinder rods or bodies and has an opening therethrough for receiving a portion of a riser extending from the seafloor. A vertically adjustable riser attachment supported on the load structure member over the opening attaches to a portion of the riser extending through the opening and generally centrally between the cylinders. The cylinders pull upwardly on the load structure member to exert an upward tensioning force on the riser at the location of the riser attachment.

An ultra-large truss type floating marine platform is composed of floating drums dispersed on water surface, a working platform above water surface, and connecting rods. Its advantage is high stability.

An apparatus for use in offshore oil or gas production in which a plurality of vertical stabilizing columns are supported on a submerged horizontal water entrapment plate is provided to support minimum offshore oil and gas production facilities above a subsea wellhead, or subsea processing facilities, or a submarine pipeline, and whose main function is to provide power or chemicals or to perform other operations such as compression, injection, or separation of water, oil and gas. The apparatus is maintained in the desired location by a plurality of mooring lines anchored to the sea-bed. The respective size and shape of the columns and water entrapment plate are designed to provide sufficient buoyancy to carry the weight of all equipment on the minimum floating platform and mooring lines, umbilical and risers attached to it, and to minimize the platform motion during normal operations.

A portable battery-powered ozone generator, or ozonator, contained in a waterproof housing with an air intake and an ozone discharge conduit diffuses ozone directly into a body of water in a pool, pond or tank. The ozone generator and housing can be part of (1) a buoyant floating platform that is also equipped with solar power collector panels to provide a recharging current for the battery; (2) a robotic, self-propelled pool cleaner; or (3) a skimmer filter assembly that can include a solar panel under a solar transmissive cover that is flush mounted in the walk area alongside the pool.

A riser tensioner system maintains a tensile force in a riser having an axis and extending from a subsea wellhead assembly through an opening in a floating platform deck. The tensioner includes a plurality of tensioner legs having lower ends mounted to the deck, and upper ends having slots formed therein to receive leg attachment plates having an opening therein through which a tubular support ring passes. A plurality of cylinders extend between the tubular support ring and a tensioner ring and couple to the support ring with cylinder attachment plates through which the tubular support ring passes. An upper end of each cylinder pivots about the mounting point, and a lower end of each cylinder adjustably mounts to the tensioner ring.

The invention discloses a water quality automatic monitoring data acquisition device, and relates to the technical field of water quality monitoring. The device comprises a floating platform, whereinthe bottom of the floating platform is provided with buoys, the top of the floating platform is provided with a protective box, the protective box is internally provided with a first motor, a water tank and an air pump, the water tank is located between the first motor and the air pump, one end of the first motor is rotatably connected with a winding wheel through a rotating shaft, the outer wallof the winding wheel is wound with a pulling rope, and one end of the pulling rope is provided with a lifting seat. The device ensures the stability in sampling through introducing negative water pressure into a sampling tube, and avoids a problem of inaccurate data caused by the mixed water quality in subsequent sampling due to the residual water sample in the sampling tube, realizes the functions of water parameter acquisition, analysis, storage, supervision, early warning and display for deep or shallow water areas by adopting an integrated intelligent water quality acquisition control system, and greatly improves the integration and intelligentization degree of the water quality acquisition device and the accuracy of water quality parameter acquisition.

An apparatus for use in offshore oil or gas production in which a plurality of vertical stabilizing columns are supported on a submerged horizontal water entrapment plate is provided to support minimum offshore oil and gas production facilities above a subsea wellhead, or subsea processing facilities, or a submarine pipeline, and whose main function is to provide power or chemicals or to perform other operations such as compression, injection, or separation of water, oil and gas. The apparatus is maintained in the desired location by a plurality of mooring lines anchored to the sea-bed. The respective size and shape of the columns and water entrapment plate are designed to provide sufficient buoyancy to carry the weight of all equipment on the minimum floating platform and mooring lines, umbilical and risers attached to it, and to minimize the platform motion during normal operations.

The invention relates to a power station on a submerged floating platform consisting of a floating structure (1) submerged at a certain depth, where it is moored by means of guy lines (2) with respect to ballasts or mooring buoys (3) located in the aquatic bed, arranging on said floating structure (1) hydraulic pumping mechanisms (5) which are operated by the weight differential of the water column between the crests and the troughs of the waves when such waves pass over them, in combination with a pneumatic system acting as a spring in said mechanisms (5) for operating an electricity-generating turbine (8) through a hydraulic closed circuit.

A wave energy conversion system or device is provided which includes a hull that serves as a float, moving up and down with incoming waves. The power take-off system contained within the hull comprises a longitudinal main rotary shaft upon which a series different diameter sets of dual same-diameter pinions interact with the main rotary shaft through their corresponding freewheels. This interaction only allows the main rotary shaft to rotate in only one direction. A fork-like rod system member that is either fixed directly to a base on the seabed or to a supporting underwater taut moored floating platform. This fork-like rod system member has an alternate rod in permanent contact with each pinion (two rods per each set of dual same-diameter pinions). The device also is capable of self-adjusting its mechanical properties and orientation to take into account the predominant wave frequency and direction over a period of time in a practical way to provide continuous, or multiple level, tuning of the system and is self-orienting for maximum and minimum energy absorption depending on sea conditions.

The invention discloses a sea observation platform for unmanned and automatic navigation. According to upward and downward movement of a water turbine which is arranged under sea and is pulled by a sea floating platform driven by wave, water flow entering into a water turbine casing is enabled to be guided by upper part guide blades and lower part guide blades to act on a one-way rotating rotor, the up and down movement is converted into one-way rotation of the rotor, by the adoption of the rotor, according to a transmission mechanism, and kinetic energy of rotation is transmitted into the rotor of a generation set which is accelerated by a speed shifting mechanism, so that sea wave energy is enabled to be converted into electrical energy; and a power supply system further comprises a solar photovoltaic system, the electrical energy generated by the solar photovoltaic system is taken as an auxiliary power supply for an observation platform, the electric energy converted from the sea wave energy is used as a main power supply for various systems, and a complemented method of the main power supply and the auxiliary power supply is used for providing power source for a propelling system and an intelligent control system. By providing adequate electric energy, the sea observation platform becomes the observation platform with functions of remote control, multi-method communication, visualized remote online monitoring and observing and the like, and the possibility of transparently supervising all sea observation stations in the country is realized.