Absstract of: WO2025213767A1
Disclosed in the present application is a blade installation system and method for a wind turbine generator in a floating offshore wind power system. The blade installation system comprises a nacelle gripper, a blade gripper and a lifting installation vessel, wherein the nacelle gripper comprises a gripping housing and a plurality of telescopic tightening block assemblies; the blade gripper comprises a gripping cylinder which is arranged on a front outer side surface of the gripping housing and can slide left and right, the inner circumferential surface of the gripping cylinder being provided with a plurality of telescopic driving wheel assemblies; a crane on the lifting installation vessel is configured to hoist the nacelle gripper to or away from a nacelle, and the plurality of telescopic tightening block assemblies cooperate to grip or release the nacelle; and the crane is further configured to hoist a blade root into the gripping cylinder in an open state, the plurality of telescopic driving wheel assemblies cooperate to grip or release the blade root, and the plurality of telescopic driving wheel assemblies cooperate to horizontally drive the gripped blade root from the front to the rear into a mounting hole of a hub. At a working sea area, the blade root can be conveniently mounted in the mounting hole of the hub; the installation difficulty is low.
Absstract of: WO2025215420A1
A floating wind turbine platform is disclosed. The floating wind turbine platform may include a floatable structure having multiple semisubmersible columns. The semisubmersible columns may be interconnected by pontoons, at least some of which may contain a ballast. The floating wind turbine platform may also include a ballast distribution system having a sensor that is usable to detect an inclination of the floatable structure in a body of water. The ballast distribution system can balance the floatable structure in response to a signal from the sensor by operating a pump to distribute the ballast within the pontoons. Distributing the ballast within the pontoons may include selectively adjusting a position of the ballast contained within the internal volume of at least one of the pontoons, or transferring at least some of the ballast between the internal volumes of the pontoons.
Absstract of: WO2025215424A1
A floating wind turbine platform is disclosed. The floating wind turbine platform may include a floatable structure that is deployable to a body of water and includes a plurality of semisubmersible columns. The semisubmersible columns may be interconnected. Each semisubmersible column can define an internal ballast volume. An intake port in each semisubmersible column can place the internal ballast volume of the semisubmersible column into fluid communication with the body of water. A ballast control system may be provided to balance the floatable structure upon a detected inclination thereof. Balancing of the floatable structure may be accomplished by selectively controlling a transfer of water from the body of water to the internal ballast volume of at least one of the semisubmersible columns, and/or by selectively controlling a transfer of water from the internal ballast volume of at least one of the semisubmersible columns to the body of water.
Absstract of: WO2024121391A1
The method of manufacturing a floater (2) comprises the steps of obtaining a plurality of wall portions (12), each wall portion (12) corresponding to an angular sector of an axial section (10) of a sidewall (6) of the floater, and assembling the wall portions (12) such as to manufacture axial sections (10) of the sidewall (6) sequentially. The assembly of the wall portions (12) starts with the assembly of a first axial section (10) onto one of the end plates (8) and at least one wall portion (12) is stiffened and/or at least one of the end plates (8) is stiffened.
Absstract of: WO2025178634A1
Tension-leg platforms for supporting wind turbines are augmented with surge plates. The surge plates increase the amount of water that is displaced when a tension-leg platform is accelerated horizontally, which reduces wave induced accelerations. The surge plates are mounted to the deepest parts of the submerged structure of each platform to minimize wave loading.
Absstract of: TW202446669A
The vessel comprises a float (80) and an intervention assembly on the wind turbine, carried by the float (80). The float (80) comprises a buoyant body (86) and a fastening baseplate (88) protruding relative to the buoyant body (86) along a fastening axis (A-A') on a lower surface of the offshore wind turbine platform. The buoyant body (86) defines a ballast-receiving volume, the vessel comprising a ballast controller configured to control the amount of ballast received in the ballast-receiving volume to raise an upper contact surface (94) of the baseplate (88) to place it in contact with a lower surface of the offshore wind turbine platform, the float (80) being monohull.
Absstract of: EP4631847A1
A floating wind turbine platform is disclosed. The floating wind turbine platform may include a floatable structure having multiple semisubmersible columns: The semisubmersible columns may be interconnected by pontoons, at least some of which may contain a ballast. The floating wind turbine platform may also include a ballast distribution system having a sensor that is usable to detect an inclination of the floatable structure in a body of water. The ballast distribution system can balance the floatable structure in response to a signal from the sensor by operating a pump to distribute the ballast within the pontoons. Distributing the ballast within the pontoons may include selectively adjusting a position of the ballast contained within the internal volume of at least one of the pontoons, or transferring at least some of the ballast between the internal volumes of the pontoons.
Absstract of: AU2024234263A1
A tendon (224) for a tension leg platform (202), TLP, is provided. The TLP comprises a foundation (206), connectable to a bottom (208) of a body of water, and a buoyant hull (216). The tendon has a length, a proximal end (223), and a distal end (225). The tendon comprises a proximal end fitting at the proximal end and a distal end fitting at the distal end. The tendon is connectable with the proximal end fitting to the hull and with the distal end to the foundation to provide a pulling force on the hull. The length of the tendon is at least 300 meters. The tendon comprises basalt fibres for transferring the pulling force from the proximal end fitting to the distal end fitting.
Absstract of: WO2025209633A1
The invention provides a method for handling a wind turbine rotor blade (11) of a horizontal axis wind turbine (1), which wind turbine comprises a tower (14) supported by and fixed to a foundation (17), a nacelle (15) on the tower, and a rotor hub (18) rotatably mounted to the nacelle, the method comprising - fixedly mounting a blade supporting device (21a, 21b) to the foundation and/or to the wind turbine, - lifting the blade to the hub, or lowering the blade from the hub, and - positioning the blade on the blade supporting device (21a, 21b) so as to be supported by the blade supporting device, before the blade is lifted to the hub, or upon lowering the blade from the hub.
Absstract of: US2025314239A1
An offshore floating platform includes a plurality of aeolian generators having: an aeolian tower having a longitudinal extension and provided with a first and a second end; a blade-type aeolian generator positioned at the first end; and an engagement base positioned at the second end; a connection section, which joins two aeolian generators, including at least one connection element; wherein each engagement base is engaged with the connection element in such a way that each aeolian tower can move independently in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of longitudinal development of an aeolian tower.
Absstract of: US2025313305A1
An offshore wind farm includes at least four floating structures designed to receive a wind turbine, with each floating structure having at least three mooring lines, and each mooring line is attached to a mooring point arranged around said floating structure. The mooring lines facing inward from the offshore wind farm form the inner mooring lines of the offshore wind farm and the mooring lines facing outward from the offshore wind farm form the peripheral mooring lines of the offshore wind farm, wherein two adjacent floating structures have at least one of their peripheral mooring lines crossing each other, with at least one of these peripheral mooring lines comprising a buoyancy element.
Absstract of: US2025313310A1
A floating wind turbine installation including an asymmetric floating wind turbine structure that is tethered to the floor of a body of water by a mooring system. The floating wind turbine structure includes a wind turbine mounted on a semi-submersible floating platform, and is oriented such that the wind turbine is positioned on an upwind side of the centre of mass of the floating wind turbine structure when the wind approaches the wind turbine structure in the direction of the prevailing wind at the location of the wind turbine installation.
Absstract of: WO2025212571A1
A floating power generation platform includes a water plane platform having a plurality of hydrodynamically fared columns respectively connected with a plurality of buoyant subsurface hulls. At least one tower extends above the water plane platform and is configured to support at least one power generation system. The at least one tower has a center core capable of hosting a stowed member. A deployable spar is movable between a stowed position, in which the deployable spar is stowed within the center core of the tower, and a deployed position, in which the deployable spar is extended below the water plane platform and each of the plurality of hydrodynamically fared columns.
Absstract of: EP4628398A2
A floating offshore structure of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of columns; and a plurality of pontoons installed at lower ends of the columns, respectively, wherein a polygonal shape is formed by an imaginary line connecting the columns, the pontoons are installed inside the polygonal shape, a cross-sectional area in a direction parallel to sea level of the pontoons is greater than or equal to the cross-sectional area in the direction parallel to the sea level of the columns, and the pontoons may have a shape protruding outward at the lower ends of the columns.
Absstract of: WO2024115474A1
The aim of the invention is to transport energy produced in an environmentally friendly manner by means of an offshore wind turbine to land in a simple and reliable manner. This is achieved by a method (100) for transporting hydrogen from a floating wind turbine (10) to a water vehicle (11), wherein hydrogen is provided in a storage tank (31) of a floating wind turbine (10), and a water vehicle (11) with a transport tank (36) is positioned by the floating wind turbine (10). The hydrogen is transported from the storage tank (31) to the transport tank (36) using a line (35) which is designed to transport the hydrogen.
Absstract of: WO2024115444A1
Process of anchoring a floating platform on a rocky seabed, comprising: - providing a trench portion (20) in the seabed, - installing an anchor structure (22) in the trench portion, comprising a steel reinforcement cage (34) extending in a longitudinal direction (L), and a chain supporting system (36) fixed to the reinforcement cage and including at least one plate (38), - connecting a mooring chain (26) to the chain supporting system, - injecting grout (24) in the trench portion, the reinforcement cage and the chain supporting system being at least partly surrounded by the injected grout, - after curing of the injected grout, connecting the mooring chain to the platform. Corresponding anchoring system.
Absstract of: US2025305483A1
An offshore wind farm includes at least three floating structures designed to receive a wind turbine, with each floating structure having at least three mooring lines, and each mooring line is attached to a mooring point arranged around a floating structure. The mooring lines facing inward from the offshore wind farm form the inner mooring lines of the offshore wind farm, and the mooring lines facing outward from the offshore wind farm form the peripheral mooring lines of the offshore wind farm. A peripheral mooring line includes a first segment able to be attached to the floating structures, and at least one intermediate segment formed of an elastomeric material attached to the first segment and the second segment.
Absstract of: US2025305480A1
A launching and landing guide device is arranged in a floating side unit having a winch and a sail for unwinding and winding the tether. The launching and landing guide device includes a position setting unit that sets a position at which the tether is unwound or unwound, and a launching and landing guide unit that is capable of fixing the kite when the tether is wound and guides the kite and the tether when the tether is unwound or unwound.
Absstract of: US2025304222A1
Disclosed are dense fluids for use in offshore applications, such as wind turbine platforms, oil and gas platforms, gravity anchors, catenary weights as well as other gravity-based structures. The dense fluid can be mixed with low-density fluid and high-density solid particles to form an intermediate dense fluid. The intermediate dense fluid is mixed with intermediate-density solid particles having the same density as the intermediate dense fluid to form a dense fluid with the desired target density. The dense fluid can be produced cost-effectively by selecting intermediate-density particles which are plentiful and can be obtained cheaply.
Absstract of: US2025304223A1
A floating marine platform and a method for manufacturing a floating marine platform by means of templates are provided. The floating marine platform comprises a central column, multiple peripheral columns circumferentially around the central column, and radially extending outriggers from the central column that connect the peripheral columns with the central column. The templates comprise an inner outrigger template, an outer outrigger template, a central column template and a peripheral column template. On a first location under a first temperature a first pair with the inner outrigger template and the central column template is formed, and on a second location under a second temperature a second pair with the outer outrigger template and the peripheral column template is formed. Subsequently the central column, the peripheral columns and the outriggers are formed by means of the templates, under different temperatures.
Absstract of: WO2025206546A1
A device for reducing the tensile load of an offshore floating body is provided. According to embodiments of the present invention, a tensile load caused by a mooring chain can be more efficiently reduced by using a pneumatic cylinder. In particular, through-holes are formed in the upper and lower portions of the pneumatic cylinder, and when a tensile load is applied by the mooring chain, air suction and air discharge can be alternately performed in each through-hole, thereby efficiently reducing the tensile load applied by the mooring chain.
Absstract of: WO2025200096A1
A separable wind turbine mounting system, comprising a separable platform (100), a mother vessel (200) and guide devices (300), wherein the separable platform is of a liftable structure, can ascend and descend relative to the mother vessel, and can fit with the guide devices and is guided thereby so as to combine with the mother vessel and detach from the mother vessel. On the basis of the overall layout of a conventional wind turbine mounting vessel, no big changes need to be made, and a large crane, a lifting mechanism, a deck surface, etc. related to wind turbine mounting form an independent unit, namely, the separable platform. The vessel on which the separable platform depends is the mother vessel, and the separable platform after being combined with the mother vessel is similar to the conventional wind turbine mounting vessel; and when the mother vessel arrives at a wind turbine mounting station for operation, the separable platform can ascend and descend independently, such that the technical defects of the conventional wind turbine mounting vessel can be overcome.
Absstract of: EP4624317A2
A floating offshore structure of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of columns; and a plurality of pontoons installed at lower ends of the columns, respectively, wherein a polygonal shape is formed by an imaginary line connecting the columns, the pontoons are installed inside the polygonal shape, a cross-sectional area in a direction parallel to sea level of the pontoons is greater than or equal to the cross-sectional area in the direction parallel to the sea level of the columns, and the pontoons may have a shape protruding outward at the lower ends of the columns.
Absstract of: WO2025195174A1
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of electronic devices. Provided is a multi-unit control method for an offshore floating platform. The method comprises: determining, when the number of faulty fans of the offshore floating platform is smaller than a threshold value, a fan group to which the faulty fans belong as a target fan group; determining a rotation direction of the faulty fans in the target fan group; and adjusting a rotation speed of normal fans in the target fan group on the basis of the rotation direction. By implementing the method in the present disclosure, when faulty fans exist in the offshore floating platform, the rotation speed of the normal fans in the target fan group can be accurately adjusted on the basis of the rotation direction of the faulty fans, thereby effectively reducing the influence of the faulty fans on the system, and improving the robustness, stability and safety of the system.
Nº publicación: AU2024237151A1 25/09/2025
Applicant:
FERROVIAL CONSTRUCCION S A
FERROVIAL CONSTRUCCI\u00D3N, S.A
Absstract of: AU2024237151A1
The present invention relates to a floating concrete structure for offshore wind applications, comprising a semi-submersible platform which in turn comprises: - an inner column (1), - a plurality of outer columns (2) distributed around the inner column (1) equidistant thereto (1), wherein the inner column (1) or one of the outer columns (2) supports a wind turbine tower, - a plurality of beams (4) connecting each outer column (2) with the inner column (1). The floating structure further comprises a pontoon (3), the inner column (1) and the plurality of outer columns (2) being supported on the pontoon (3) and the plurality of beams (4) comprises first beams (4.1) which extend parallel to the pontoon (3) between the upper end of the inner column (1) to a point of attachment with the outer columns (2).