Seabed conditions and its relation to Suction Anchor Operation

Dijken, Nick, van (2020) Seabed conditions and its relation to Suction Anchor Operation. Integration Project, Industrial Engineering and Management.

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Abstract

The company Ocean Grazer B.V. has developed a design for a modular, renewable energy source based primarily on wave energy. Additionally, a design was developed that allowed for excess energy to be converted into potential, mechanical energy, promptly named: “Ocean Battery”. The Ocean Battery is to be released into the ocean, where it will sink to the bottom and anchor itself to the seafloor by means of suction anchors. The Ocean Battery will be connected to the main installation by means of numerous cables, which allows the main installation to exist as a floating construction. The Ocean Battery however, will feature a bladder with which excess energy will be captured, using a turbine powered by excess energy to fill this bladder with water. When this energy is required again, the pressure from the ocean above will press the water inside the bladder back through a turbine, regaining the potential energy that was stored. For this design to function properly, the Ocean Battery is to be properly secured and anchored to the ocean floor by means of aforementioned suction anchors. The conditions and configurations required to guide this operation properly, differs based on the location and composition of the ocean floor. Therefore, this thesis aims to analyse a multitude of different seafloor conditions so that guidelines can be formulated for each set of conditions. This will allow the Ocean Battery to be deployed in almost any circumstance.

Item Type:	Thesis (Integration Project)
Supervisor name:	Vakis, A. and Kousemaker, T.M.
Degree programme:	Industrial Engineering and Management
Thesis type:	Integration Project
Language:	English
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2020 11:19
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2020 11:19
URI:	https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/22140

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