INNOVATIONS
OFFSHORE PERSONNEL TRANSFER SYSTEM AIMS
At Year-round access on far offshore windfarms
Later this year, the blades on the world’s first full-scale floating windfarm will start to turn, harnessing the winds that hurtle from the continental shelf
Hywind Scotland will literally sit on the North Sea, 26 kilometres to the East of Aberdeen. But while big winds make it a perfect site for energy generation, they will often be accompanied by big seas. In the Buchan-Deep, waves of over 1.5m Significant Height will prevail for up to half of the year and ensuring that turbines are productive in this environment will require new solutions to getting maintenance technicians safely and cost-effectively onto and off turbines in high seas.
MOVING FROM 50% TO 80% ACCESSIBILITY AT FAR OFFSHORE WINDFARMS
With this access challenge in mind, Limpet Technology is developing the world’s first heave-compensated personnel hoist and fall prevention system and is partnering with the ORE Catapult to trial the system on its 7MW offshore demonstrator turbine at Levenmouth as the first step towards full sea trials later in 2017.
OFFSHORE PERSONNEL TRANSFER SYSTEM
The Limpet offshore personnel transfer system integrates motion compensated, remote-controlled hoisting with fall prevention and automatic deck-avoidance safety features. The objective is to deliver a solution for safe, easy and reliable technician access to offshore wind turbines in sea states up to and beyond 2.5 metres Significant Height.
By doing so, technicians will be able to access turbines at far offshore sites like the Buchan Deep over 80% of the time instead of only 50%, regardless of the size or type of crew transfer vessel that is being used.
PROTOTYPE
The company built its first prototype system recently, which can be seen on the video QR Code/Link below, and will be moving to sea trials in the next few months.
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