A buoyant offshore platform (102) for supporting a renewable energy system (116) in a body of water (104) is provided, the body of water having a surface (106) and a bed (110). The buoyant offshore platform comprises a base portion (118) for submerging below said surface of said body of water; a top portion for remaining above said surface of said body of water; one or more mooring lines (108) for fixing the buoyant offshore platform to said bed of said body of water; and a tensioning means (130) for applying tension to the one or more mooring lines. The buoyant offshore platform further comprises a floating configuration in which the buoyant offshore platform is positioned substantially floating on said surface of said body of water; wherein the buoyant offshore platform comprises a deployed configuration in which the base portion is submerged beneath said surface of said body of water and the top portion remains above said surface of said body of water. In use, the tensioning means is arranged to apply tension to the one or more mooring lines fixed between the buoyant offshore platform and said bed of said body of water such that the buoyant offshore platform transitions between the floating configuration and the deployed configuration. The described platform aims to provide a safer and more efficient mode of deploying a buoyant offshore platform to a partially submerged operating configuration.
BUOYANT OFFSHORE PLATFORM AND A METHOD OF DEPLOYING BUOYANT OFFSHORE PLATFORMS
2023-11-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B63B Schiffe oder sonstige Wasserfahrzeuge , SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS |
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