Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of assembling a floating wind turbine platform
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Application No.: US15116623Application Date: 2015-02-06
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Publication No.: US10336404B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Habib J. Dagher , Anthony M. Viselli
- Applicant: University of Maine System Board of Trustees
- Applicant Address: US ME Orono
- Assignee: University of Maine System Board of Trustees
- Current Assignee: University of Maine System Board of Trustees
- Current Assignee Address: US ME Orono
- Agency: MacMillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC
- International Application: PCT/US2015/014750 WO 20150206
- International Announcement: WO2015/120227 WO 20150813
- Main IPC: B63B9/06
- IPC: B63B9/06 ; B63B5/18 ; F03D13/25 ; F03D1/06 ; F03D3/00 ; B63B1/10 ; F03D13/10 ; B63B21/20 ; B63B21/50 ; B21D47/00 ; B63B35/44

Abstract:
A method of assembling a floating wind turbine platform includes assembling a keystone having a hollow central cavity from pre-formed concrete sections, and assembling a plurality of buoyant bottom beams from pre-formed concrete sections. Each bottom beam is attached to, and extends radially outward of the keystone to define a base assembly. Each buoyant bottom beam includes a ballast chamber therein. The keystone is post-tensioned to each bottom beam along a longitudinal axis thereof. A center column is assembled upwardly and perpendicularly on the base assembly from pre-formed sections of the center column, the outer columns are assembled on a distal end of each bottom beam from pre-formed sections of the outer columns, and the center column and the outer columns are longitudinally post-tensioned to the base assembly. A tower is assembled on the center column from pre-formed sections, and a wind turbine is assembled on the tower.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160340000A1 Method Of Assembling A Floating Wind Turbine Platform Public/Granted day:2016-11-24
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