Method for transporting hydrogen from a floating wind turbine to a watercraft
AssigneeCruse Offshore GmbH
InventorJens Cruse
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Abstract
A method (100) for transporting hydrogen from a floating wind turbine (10) to a watercraft (11) is proposed in order to transport environmentally friendly energy generated by an offshore wind turbine from the offshore wind turbine to land in a simple and safe manner, wherein hydrogen is provided in a holding tank (31) of a floating wind turbine (10), wherein a watercraft (11) with a transportation tank (36) is positioned at the floating wind turbine (10), wherein the hydrogen is conveyed from the holding tank (31) to the transportation tank (36) by means of a line (35) configured to convey the hydrogen.
Claims18
A method for transporting hydrogen from a floating wind turbine to a watercraft, wherein a liquid carrier medium enriched with hydrogen is provided in a holding tank of a floating wind turbine, wherein a watercraft with a transport tank is positioned at the floating wind turbine, wherein the enriched carrier medium comprising the hydrogen is conveyed from the holding tank into the transport tank by means of a first line configured to convey the hydrogen, wherein the liquid carrier medium is a liquid organic hydrogen carrier, wherein a second line is provided, wherein during the transportation of the enriched carrier medium from the holding tank to the transport tank, a non-enriched carrier medium is simultaneously transported from the watercraft to a support tank of the floating wind turbine, wherein the wind turbine is a self-aligning wind turbine, wherein the wind turbine is being or is anchored to a seabed with at least one of a mooring rope or an anchoring rope, and wherein the wind turbine comprises a single point mooring device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.