159results about "Barges/lighters" patented technology

A landing station can include a package manipulation system, an anchoring system, a climate control system, and / or a convertible storage locker. In some embodiments, a temperature control carrier is used with the landing station. In some embodiments, the package manipulation system includes at least one manipulation rail, at least one finger and / or a set of projections configured to raise and lower from said landing surface. In some embodiments, the landing station includes an elevator. In some embodiments, the landing station includes a lifting ring. In some embodiments, the landing station includes an air curtain blower.

A permanent-temporary combined square block and caisson combined gravity type wharf comprises a land area rear storage yard, a temporary prefabricating yard used for prefabricating square blocks and caissons is arranged on the land area rear storage yard, the temporary prefabricating yard is communicated with square block structural sections through caisson shipping channels, and the square block structural sections are arranged along the coast and serve as caisson temporary shipping wharfs. The caisson shipping channel is used for transporting prefabricated square blocks and caissons; and after the caisson is transported out through the caisson shipping channel and the square structure section, the caisson is arranged to be connected with the square structure section into a whole, and the caisson structure section wharf is formed. According to the wharf, a site does not need to be additionally found to serve as a prefabrication yard and a temporary wharf as a construction site, and the temporary shipping wharf and part of the prefabrication yard are combined permanently and temporarily, so that wharf construction and dismantling cost can be saved.

A system and method for transporting cargo and containers across a body of water having at least one mothership vessel designed to carry at least one deployable and retrievable vessels within a hull portion of the at least one mothership vessel. The mothership vessel is designed to partially submerge its hull to flood its well deck wherein the plurality of deployable and retrievable vessels may be deployed or retrieved, the deployable and retrievable vessels allowed to float when the well-deck of the mothership vessel is flooded. At least one mathematical model is used to find a solution for given routes along one or more legs between ports, the mothership vessel, and the deployable and releasable vessels, the route substantially to manage supply chain optimization of the cargo carried on the mothership vessel and the costs and pace of travel. Machine learning may aid in calculations.

The invention discloses an offshore photovoltaic support loading and unloading type shipping and stacking tool and a lightering operation method thereof. The tool comprises a barge widening and reinforcing tool, a photovoltaic support mounting tool and a stacking tool. The barge widening and reinforcing tool is composed of a plurality of sets of extending mechanisms which are symmetrically arranged on ship boards on the left side and the right side of a barge, and each set of extending mechanism is composed of a plurality of extending assemblies. The photovoltaic support installation tool comprises a plurality of sets of guide assemblies composed of a plurality of guide pipes, the guide assemblies are distributed on the extension assembly and the deck, and supporting legs are further arranged at the centers of the guide pipes. The stacking tool is composed of a plurality of stacking assemblies, each stacking assembly is composed of a plurality of stacking supports, the top sides of the stacking supports are provided with support guide pipes and support supporting legs which are the same as and correspond to the guide pipes and the supporting legs respectively, and the bottom sides of the stacking supports are connected with the guide assemblies. The tool is simple in structural design and convenient to assemble, disassemble and operate, stacking arrangement and fixation of the offshore photovoltaic support in the height direction of the barge can be achieved, the transportation efficiency is improved in the lightering operation, and the cost is reduced.

The invention discloses a pushing boat and barge efficient combination butt joint device which comprises a barge butt joint piece arranged on a barge, the barge butt joint piece comprises a barge butt joint matching piece and a matched butt joint adjusting piece, the barge butt joint matching piece is arranged on the barge and driven by the connected matched butt joint adjusting piece, and the barge butt joint matching piece is arranged on the barge and driven by the matched butt joint adjusting piece; the vertical movement is realized as required; the pushing butt joint piece is arranged on the pushing ship, the pushing butt joint piece comprises a pushing telescopic power piece and a butt joint pushing piece, and the pushing telescopic power piece is arranged on the pushing ship and drives the butt joint pushing piece connected with the pushing ship to be connected with the barge butt joint matching piece in a matched mode, so that the pushing ship and the barge are combined in a butt joint mode. The device is reasonable in structural design, high in automation degree, high in butt-joint success rate of the pushing ship and the barge, high in combined butt-joint efficiency and small in influence of sea surface waves on the combined butt-joint process.

A method of transporting a first vessel having wind turbine components to an offshore installation vessel. The method includes (i) securing the first vessel to a second vessel using a first tow line attached to a front end (or bow) of the first vessel, and (ii) securing the first vessel to a third vessel using a second tow line attached to a back end (or stern) of the first vessel. The method further includes transporting the first vessel to the offshore installation vessel using the second vessel and the third vessel secured to the first vessel via the first and second tow lines, respectively. The method also includes securing the first vessel to the offshore installation vessel. The first vessel can include one or more fender walls. The first vessel can be secured to the offshore installation vessel using one or more mooring lines.

The present invention provides a novel offshore structure, referred to as Super Shallow Water Structures (SSS), designed and manufactured for installation in shallow water depths ranging from 3.5 meters to 50 meters. The said structure is a self-floating structure that can be towed from a fabrication yard or dry dock to an offshore site and lowered into position without requiring heavy lifting vessels or barge-based operations. The structure is equipped with a unique pontoon foundation (1) that facilitates self-floating transport and lowering through controlled water or grout filling. The structure (SSS) serves as an alternative to traditional offshore structures. It also provides a viable solution for replacing jacket and pile foundations for heavy topsides structures.

The utility model provides an offshore floating barge type photovoltaic energy storage power station. A barge is composed of a photovoltaic system arranged on a two-layer deck, an energy storage system and a wireless charging and discharging system arranged on a first-layer deck, and a control protection and energy management system arranged on a bottom-layer cabin. The photovoltaic system can generate power to charge the energy storage system when the barge sails on the sea and is berthed in the daytime; the energy storage system can run to a land power grid with sufficient electric quantity to absorb electric energy to charge an energy storage container, and can also run to power-lacking power grids such as islands or offshore working platforms to discharge electric energy to supply power to the power grids; and the control protection and energy management system is used for control of system switches of the whole station, relay protection and energy flow direction control. According to the utility model, the construction cost of the submarine cable can be reduced, the technical limitation range of the laying length of the alternating-current submarine cable is broken through, the power supply of a deep and far sea working platform is guaranteed, and the working range of an offshore working platform is expanded.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of ship control, and provides a berthing motion control method of a towing system, the towing system, equipment and a medium, the method comprises the steps that state information of the towing system at the current moment is acquired, and the state information comprises the state of a tugboat, the state of a barge and the towing cable pulling force between the tugboat and the barge; generating a state space vector of the towing system according to the state of the tugboat and the state of the barge; inputting the state space vector and the towing cable tension into a pre-established Markov decision process model to obtain an action space vector of the tugboat; and carrying out berthing control on the towing system based on the action space vector. According to the invention, efficient, stable and safe barge dragging system berthing operation can be realized.

The present invention provides a control device and method for the folding and releasing of a barge gangway, wherein the device includes a hydraulic device and a winch device, which cooperate to complete the folding and releasing of the barge gangway; by controlling the hydraulic device to close the rope tension on the winch device to control the hydraulic cylinder to push out the gangway when the gangway is connected to the inner side, the speed of the two winch mechanisms is synchronized, and the turning angle of the gangway is obtained according to the calculated rope, the synchronous speed is adjusted, the speed is reduced at the beginning and end, and the speed is increased in the middle. This application is not limited by the operating level of the personnel, and is fully intelligently controlled.

Some embodiments relate to a power generation system. An example floating power generation system comprises: a vessel, the vessel including: a vessel frame, a hull around the vessel frame and defining fore and aft sections, and a deck supported by the vessel frame. A gas turbine may be provided on the vessel to generate electrical power from combustion of natural gas. An organic Rankine cycle (ORC) generator may be provided on the vessel to generate electrical power from heat recovery. A gas supply line may be provided on the vessel for supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the gas turbine. A power supply subsystem may be provided on the vessel to receive electrical power from at least one of the gas turbine or the ORC generator and to supply power to at least one remote power sink that is away from the vessel.

This application provides a method for the floating deployment of a cylindrical component. First, the cylindrical component is loaded onto a semi-submersible barge, and a buoyancy device is installed on the inner side of the component. After the semi-submersible barge submerges until the bottom surface of the buoyancy device contacts the liquid surface, the air intake and exhaust pipes of the buoyancy device are opened. When the cylindrical component sinks to a preset water depth, air is pumped into the stabilization chamber through the air intake and exhaust pipes until the buoyancy device can float in the water, and then the air intake and exhaust pipes are closed. The buoyancy device is then adjusted to be coaxial with the cylindrical component; air is pumped into the stabilization chamber a second time through the air intake and exhaust pipes until the buoyancy of the buoyancy device is sufficient to lift the cylindrical component and suspend it in the water, causing it to automatically separate from the semi-submersible barge. The cylindrical component can then be towed out of the dock to the deployment position. After the gas pumped into the stabilization chamber is expelled, the cylindrical component begins to sink. After adjusting the verticality of the cylindrical component, it is finally sunk to the bottom of the substrate.

The invention relates to the technical field of underwater caisson construction, in particular to a caisson construction method. The underwater leveling machine is assembled and formed on the supporting platform, and the semi-submersible barge and the sea side of the supporting platform are berthed; the underwater leveling machine walks to the semi-submersible barge, and the underwater leveling machine is transported through the semi-submersible barge; the underwater leveling machine is separated from the semi-submersible barge and reaches the mounting area, and leveling operation is carried out; the semi-submersible barge is berthed with the side, close to the sea, of the supporting platform again, and the caisson is moved to the semi-submersible barge from the supporting platform; and the caisson is transported to the installation area based on the semi-submersible barge, and the caisson is installed. According to the caisson construction method, the supporting platform serves as a launching platform shared by the caisson and the underwater leveling machine, launching transportation of the underwater leveling machine can be carried out through an existing semi-submersible barge used for transporting the caisson in wharf construction by means of the walking capacity of the underwater leveling machine, and therefore cost does not need to be additionally input for hoisting the underwater leveling machine to be launched; therefore, the construction cost is effectively reduced.

The invention provides a marine pollution source recovery ship. The invention relates to a ship comprising a floating object collector, which is used for storing a marine pollution source captured by an oil containment boom into an internal pollution source storage space through a sewage suction port when the ship sails in a marine pollution area so as to quickly collect oil leaked to a site as much as possible. According to the invention, pollutants are prevented from causing marine pollution through evaporation, dissolution, sedimentation, diffusion and the like, and various floating objects entering the internal storage space along with the pollutants in the storage process are effectively separated, so that the removal efficiency of the marine pollution source is improved.

A deck support device for shallow water platform module float-over installation, comprising a slide, a slide shoe, a buffer assembly, a support assembly and a diagonal brace, etc. The support assembly is a split structure, which is connected by electromagnetic suction cups and inserts. The top of the buffer assembly can be connected with the inserts. The load of the platform module is transmitted to the barge through the double-cone contact surface of the support assembly and the buffer assembly. This design can provide higher stability during the operation process. The buffer assembly further provides necessary buffering during the load transfer process of the platform module, avoiding rigid collision. During the float-over installation barge withdrawal process, the platform module can be quickly separated through the split structure of the support assembly. Meanwhile, the gap between the barge and the platform module is increased after the separation of the insert of the support assembly, ensuring the safe withdrawal of the float-over barge and greatly shortening the offshore operation time.

The utility model discloses a floating support installation ship suitable for different notches and double floating supports, and particularly relates to the field of ocean engineering, the floating support installation ship comprises a floating support barge main body, and the top of the floating support barge main body is fixedly connected with a second floating support barge; a mast is fixedly connected to the middle of one side of the top of the second floating barge, and an anemorumbometer is fixedly connected right in front of the middle of the surface of the mast. When the floating barge is used, the floating barge body and the second floating barge are fixedly connected to enhance the overall stability and bearing capacity, the anemorumbometer and the GPS integrated on the mast provide accurate environment and position information for operation, safety and high efficiency are ensured, flexible combination of the multiple barges is achieved through the connecting bridges and the connecting floating plates, and the overall stability and bearing capacity of the floating barge are improved. And the fender device effectively protects the ship body from being collided and damaged, the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic pipeline drive the sliding guide plate to accurately move in the connecting notch, and accurate control and safe fixing in the mounting process are achieved in combination with the locking mechanism.

The application discloses an efficient transport barge for inland river material transfer, relates to the field of logistics transfer equipment, and comprises a ship body, a load carrying mechanism for carrying goods is locked to the ship body, a docking mechanism for receiving the load carrying mechanism is arranged on a target wharf of the ship body, the docking mechanism comprises two parallel docking column units, the load carrying mechanism comprises receiving assemblies located on both sides of the ship body, each receiving assembly is locked with a corresponding docking column unit, and the load carrying mechanism is unlocked with the ship body, the ship body drives away from the wharf to complete unloading, the load carrying mechanism and the docking mechanism are arranged, so that the ship body is docked during approaching the wharf, unloading is completed during driving away from the wharf, and the ship body does not need to stay at the wharf for too much time, thereby greatly shortening the unloading time at the wharf and improving the overall cargo carrying efficiency of the ship body.

The invention describes a barge for assembly of a floating support structure (1) comprising a lower buoyancy section (2) with a lower buoyancy volume VL and a working deck (3) comprising support elements (4) for receiving parts of the floating support structure to be assembled. The barge further comprises a ballasting system (7) for lowering and elevating the barge (1). The barge is characterized by a divisional section (6) holding the lower buoyancy section (2) and the working deck (3) in a vertical distance from each other and having a divisional buoyancy volume VD considerably smaller than lower buoyancy volume VL, such that the ballasting system, by pumping a quantity of water equal to VD in or out, is able to move the barge (1) between a lower position with a bottom side of the working deck (3) in the waterline, and an upper position with the top side of the lower buoyancy section (2) in the waterline.

Some embodiments relate to a power generation system. An example power generation system comprises: a gas turbine to generate electrical power from combustion of natural gas; a gas supply line for supplying vaporised liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the gas turbine; a power supply subsystem to receive electrical power from the gas turbine and to supply power to at least one remote power sink; a vaporiser configured for vaporising the LNG; and a closed loop thermal fluid circuit configured to recover latent energy of the vaporising LNG to cool a thermal fluid in the closed loop thermal fluid circuit. The gas turbine includes an air inlet for the intake of ambient air; and the air inlet is configured such that ambient air passing there through is cooled by the cooled thermal fluid.

A floating LNG storage barge with one or more LNG tanks provides mobile storage for LNG, by obtaining LNG from one or more LNG ocean transport vessels while the LNG storage barge is moored to a land-based jetty, transferring LNG to one or more land transfer trucks, pipelines or railroad tankers using an LNG distribution manifold and flexible hoses between the distribution manifold and the trucks via pumps or pressure differential between the LNG storage barge with the potential for LNG processing adaptive capacity.

The present application relates to a kind of immersed tube transport sinking barge and immersed tube transport sinking construction method, belong to immersed tube tunnel construction technical field.The immersed tube transport sinking barge includes single hull, pair of cantilever beam, and immersed tube lifting and placing device;Pair of cantilever beam is symmetrically arranged in the width direction of single hull, and cantilever beam is cantilevered out from single hull to the outside of the width direction of single hull;Cantilever beam is at least two pairs and symmetrically arranged relative to the center plane of single hull length direction;Immersed tube lifting and placing device includes the sinking equipment corresponding to cantilever beam one by one, and sinking equipment is installed on cantilever beam, and each sinking equipment is connected to the immersed tube below single hull, to transport immersed tube and control the sinking installation of immersed tube;Wherein, the sinking equipment corresponding to pair of cantilever beam is respectively connected to the both sides of the width direction of immersed tube.The width of the immersed tube transported by the immersed tube transport sinking barge can be close to the upper limit of the width of inland waterway, and the width of inland waterway can be fully utilized.

The present invention relates to the technical field of transporting immersed tubes, and discloses a floating device and a method for transporting immersed tubes, wherein the floating device comprises a pontoon 1 and a pontoon 2 which are arranged relatively to each other, and an operating platform is commonly connected above the pontoon 1 and the pontoon 2, and the operating platform comprises a pontoon platform 1, a pontoon platform 2 and a connecting crossbeam, and the pontoon platform 1 has a cantilever platform 1 extending out of the inner side of the pontoon 1, and the pontoon platform 2 has a cantilever platform 2 extending out of the inner side of the pontoon 2, and a single row or multiple rows of pulleys 1 are symmetrically arranged on the cantilever platform 1 and the cantilever platform 2, and the immersed tube is hoisted after the lifting rope connects multiple pulleys 1 in series. The floating device and the method for transporting immersed tubes of the present invention can lift the immersed tubes through the design of series combined hoisting, thereby reducing the requirements of the immersed tube transportation on the water depth of the waterway, and at the same time reducing the navigation height required for the transportation of immersed tubes, and can greatly reduce the water and soil damage and the increase of transportation cost when encountering the transportation road conditions of insufficient water depth of the waterway or the height limit of the bridge hole.

The invention discloses offshore composite beam transporting and erecting integrated construction equipment and a construction method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of bridge construction. Comprising a barge platform, the barge platform is provided with a lifting sling, the lifting sling comprises a vertical truss, one end of the vertical truss is fixed to one end of the barge platform, the other end of the vertical truss is provided with a first truss beam perpendicular to the vertical truss, one end of the first truss beam is fixed to the other end of the vertical truss, and the other end of the first truss beam is provided with a second truss beam perpendicular to the first truss beam. A first truss beam is arranged at one end of the barge platform, a second truss beam is arranged at the other end of the first truss beam, one end of the second truss beam is hinged to the other end of the first truss beam, the other end of the second truss beam is arranged towards the other end of the barge platform, and a bolt hinge is arranged at the connecting position of the first truss beam and the second truss beam. The bolt hinge is used for adjusting the connecting angle of the second truss beam relative to the first truss beam. According to the technical scheme, the transportation and erection construction problem of the offshore composite beam is solved, and integrated operation of the offshore composite beam from transportation to erection is achieved.

The invention relates to the technical field of channel plate laying, in particular to a shoal pavement integral traction operation device and method. The shoal road surface integral traction operation device comprises a tractor and a barge, the rear end of the tractor pulls the front end of a channel plate road surface, multiple sections of channel plate road surfaces are folded and placed on the barge, and each channel plate road surface comprises a plurality of channel plates which are hinged in sequence. The problems that an existing mud flat channel plate is low in laying efficiency and large in labor intensity can be solved.

The present invention relates to a device for pushing four piles into the ground or into a seabed in a square configuration or in a diamond configuration, the device comprising: —a bridge assembly which defines a first, second, third and fourth connecting location arranged in a square or diamond configuration, —four connection assemblies via which in use each of the four piles is connected to the bridge assembly, wherein each pile connection assembly comprises: ∘an actuator comprising an upper actuator part and a lower actuator part, wherein the actuator is configured to extend, ∘a pile connector connected to the lower actuator part, ∘a control device configured for alternately letting each of the actuators extend, and configured for letting the pile which is pushed into the ground or seabed receive a greater force than the opposite pile of the square or diamond configuration, wherein the exerted push force is transferred into the bridge assembly and transferred at least partially from the bridge assembly as a tension force and a bending moment into the two adjoining piles via the two adjoining pile connection assemblies.

The invention discloses a lifting device for a barge and the barge. The lifting device for the barge comprises a lifting steel wire and a lifting device, the lifting bracket is arranged on a deck of the barge and is close to the tail part or the side surface of the barge; the bracket top beam is arranged at the top of the lifting bracket; the supporting beam is located below the end, extending out of the barge, of the support top beam, and the lower end of the lifting steel wire penetrates through the support top beam to be connected with a fixing assembly arranged on the supporting beam; the upper end of the connecting assembly is connected with the joist, and the lower end of the connecting assembly is used for being connected with a target hanging object; the power device is arranged at the end, extending out of the barge, of the support top beam, located above the supporting beam correspondingly, connected with the upper end of the lifting steel wire and used for driving the lifting steel wire to move up and down so as to lift the target lifting object. The lifting device is flexible to install, convenient to use and low in cost, and the operation difficulty of floating unloading of the whole machine is reduced.

The mooring system of the transshipment barge with the self-propulsion system comprises a carrying platform, a plurality of mooring piles are arranged at the top of the carrying platform at intervals, a lifting device is arranged on the front side of the carrying platform, and an anti-collision module is arranged on the front side of a lifting part of the lifting device; the anti-collision module comprises an inflation pump, an inflation control valve, a gas path main path, gas path branches and a plurality of inflation bags which are sequentially arranged at equal intervals from left to right, the gas path branches are used for enabling the inflation bags to communicate with the gas path main path one by one, and the inflation control valve is used for controlling connection and disconnection between the gas path main path and the gas path branches; the relative height of the mooring ship and the carrying platform is constantly changed along with propelling in the working process, so that in order to better protect the mooring ship and the carrying platform, a traditional fender is arranged to be in a controllable lifting mode, and the mooring ship and the carrying platform can be protected. The collision problem in the ship berthing and mooring process is solved.

Disclosed is a jacking apparatus configured to jack up a barge portion of a jack-up barge while adjusting a location of the barge portion along a post fixed to the seabed and to fix the barge portion at a desired location. The jacking apparatus has a rack-and-pinion structure configured to jack up the barge portion of the jack-up barge, wherein the rack-and-pinion structure stably and firmly grips the surface of the post, secures stability when upward-and-downward movement of a platform is performed along the post, and has a simple structure so as to economically provide the rack-and-pinion structure.

The present application relates to the technical field of intelligent load adjustment of a buoyant body on a barge, and particularly relates to an intelligent load adjustment method and system for a buoyant body on a barge. The intelligent load adjustment method for a buoyant body on a barge automatically calculates a barge-on operation scheme of the buoyant body according to a calculation length, a calculation step d, an operation time, an operation duration and buoyant body information, then automatically executes the 0th step to the Nth step according to the barge-on operation scheme, and adjusts the ballast water of the barge-on barge according to each step of the barge-on operation scheme. After the barge-on operation scheme of all steps is automatically calculated and completed, the barge-on operation scheme of each step is continuously and automatically executed. The method has less calculation amount, a continuous process, mainly controls the ballast water of the barge-on barge, is more intuitive in control, and shortens the barge-on period.

The invention relates to a method for inserting and driving a low-clearance steel pipe pile under an overwater bridge, which is operated by a barge capable of shuttling under the bridge and an inserting and driving device on the barge, and comprises the following steps of: driving the barge to a specified position at the bottom of the bridge; the main truss of the inserting and piling equipment slides to the inserting and piling position through the sliding rail; the first crown block and the second crown block lift the steel pipe pile to longitudinally move to the cantilever end; the first crown block and the second crown block cooperate to adjust the steel pipe pile to a vertical state; positioning and guiding the steel pipe piles through a positioning frame, and inserting and driving the steel pipe piles; and after steel pipe pile inserting and driving are finished, the main truss retreats into the projection line of the barge through the sliding rail, the barge travels to the next station, inserting and driving equipment loaded on the barge is used, the main truss of the inserting and driving equipment slides through the sliding rail, the bottom of the main truss is in butt joint with an inserting and driving pile position, and a stable inserting and driving overhanging operation platform is formed.