Method for transporting an offshore wind turbine in a floating manner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9297355-B2
Application number	US-201314356605-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 28, 2013
Priority date	Nov 19, 2012
Publication date	Mar 29, 2016
Grant date	Mar 29, 2016

Abstract

A method for transporting an offshore turbine, by which a frame construction is first mounted on the deck of a transportation and installation ship; a pre-made wind turbine foundation is then connected to the frame construction from beneath and temporarily fixed thereon by a steel wire tightened by a hoisting device provided on the ship; on the top of the pre-made turbine foundation a transition segment is connected; and finally, on the top of the transition segment, a wind turbine tower, a wind turbine head and blades are assembled in turn to form a finished wind turbine machine, which is now ready to be transported to an installation site.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for transporting an offshore turbine in a floating manner comprising the following steps:
(1) mounting a frame construction on a deck of a transportation and installation ship, the frame construction being capable of extending and retracing relative to the deck;
(2) mounting a wind turbine foundation, which is pre-made in land, has a top cover with a plurality of hoisting points and is connected with a transition segment, to the frame construction by disposing the wind turbine foundation into water via hoisting, delivering it in a floating manner to the transportation and installation ship, and extending the transition segment out of the frame construction so that the transition segment is above the frame construction while the wind turbine foundation, which is connected to said transition segment, is below the frame construction;
(3) temporarily securing the wind turbine foundation to the frame construction by a hoisting device provided on the transportation and installation ship, from which hosting device a steel wire passes through a locating hole of the frame construction and connects to one of the hoisting point on the top cover of the wind turbine foundation;
(4) hoisting and assembling, in turn, a wind turbine tower, a wind turbine head and blades on the transition segment to form a complete wind turbine machine; and
(5) transporting the complete wind turbine machine carried on the transportation and installation ship to an installation site.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step (3) is carried out by first inflating the wind turbine foundation until the top cover of the wind turbine foundation is tightly pressed against a lower portion of the frame construction and then tightening the steel wire by the hoisting device to temporarily secure the wind turbine foundation to the frame construction.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the frame constructions provided on the transportation and installation ship is 1-10.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the frame construction has a side length between 10-50 meters.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the wind turbine foundation has 3-10 hoisting points and the frame construction has the same number of locating holes corresponding to the hosting points.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the wind turbine foundation is a cylindrical construction with a diameter between 10-50 meters and a height between 4-15 meters.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the wind turbine foundation has 1-20 vent holes on its top cover.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transition segment has an upper end diameter between 4-10 meters, a lower end diameter between 15-40 meter, and a height between 10-60 meters.

Assignees

• Univ Tianjin

Inventors

• Lian Jijian
• Ding Hongyan
• Zhang puyang
• Li Aidong

Classifications

• Y02E10/727

  Offshore wind turbines · CPC title

• F03D11/04

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F03D11/045

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• E02B17/02 Primary

  placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto · CPC title

• F05B2240/95

  offshore · CPC title