Installing equipment in offshore monopile foundations
AssigneeSeaway 7 Engineering B.V.
InventorsAlan John Macleay, Nicolas Houdeville, David John Down
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Abstract
An equipment canister for supporting and enclosing electrical equipment of a wind turbine comprises a housing defining or containing at least one internal platform for supporting the equipment; a lifting interface on a top of the housing; an at least one support formation positioned on or projecting laterally beyond a side wall of the housing. The support formation is capable of supporting the weight of the canister suspended therefrom when the canister is installed within a monopile wind turbine foundation. Various wind turbine arrangements and wind turbine assembly methods incorporating such a canister are also described.
Claims32
A wind turbine equipment canister for supporting and enclosing electrical equipment of a wind turbine, the canister comprising:
- a housing comprising a side wall, a base and a roof, the housing containing at least one internal platform for supporting the equipment within the housing;
- a lifting interface on the roof of the housing;
- wherein the side wall of the housing comprises a cylindrical upper portion and a frusto-conical lower portion that tapers in diameter downwardly from the upper portion toward the base of the housing, and
- wherein the frusto-conical lower portion of the side wall of the housing has an inclination and curvature that is configured to complement and engage with inclined wedge faces of wedge-faced supports extending inwardly from a side wall of a monopile foundation for the wind turbine, such that the frusto-conical lower portion of the side wall of the housing serves as a support formation to support a weight of the canister when the canister is installed within the monopile foundation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.