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Underwater robot recovery system and recovery method thereof

The invention belongs to the field of underwater robots, and specifically relates to an underwater robot recovery system and a recovery method thereof. The system includes a mother ship, an underwater robot, an automatic line throwing device and a lifting seat arranged on the underwater robot, a butting lifting device and a draw gear. After the underwater robot completes the mission, a haulage rope is thrown out from the ship bow. The staff on the mother ship picks up the haulage rope through a rope picking device, and then the rope is traversed through the draw gear. The underwater robot is driven by the mother ship for navigation to overcome the effects of waves in the sea. A guidance rope is thrown by a remote control command. The butting lifting device is driven by a hoist installed on the mother ship, and falls down along the guidance rope to abut with the underwater robot and clamp. The whole recycling process is realized. The underwater robot recovery system of the present invention has the characteristics of compact structure, convenient operation, safety and reliability, small influence by the sea state, no transform to the hoist, and small requirement to the mother ship, and can achieve the laying and recovering by the same system for the underwater robot under four grade sea conditions.
Owner:SHENYANG INST OF AUTOMATION - CHINESE ACAD OF SCI

Guide device for production risers for petroleum production with a "dry tree semisubmersible" at large sea depths

A system for use in petroleum production at sea includes a guide frame for one or more riser pipes, on a semisubmersible production vessel. One or more main buoyancy member are arranged separately on at least one riser to carry the main part of the riser's weight. Each riser separately carries a Christmas tree on its top, near a main deck of the vessel. The guide frame comprises vertical main elements extending vertically downwards from the deck, through the splash zone and through the upper, more wave- and current-influenced zone of the sea. The guide frame also includes horizontal guide plates comprising vertically open cells formed of a horizontally arranged framework of beams. Lateral stabilization devices guide the risers' and the main buoyancy members' vertical movement relative to the vessel and restrict horizontal movement of the risers with respect to the guide frame. The guide plates are arranged in at least two levels on the guide frame. A lower guide plate is arranged at the lower ends of the vertical main elements', and a guide plate is arranged just below or near the splash zone. At least one main buoyancy member is held on the riser in level with, and guided by, lateral stabilization devices arranged in one or more guide plates below the upper, more wave- and current-influenced zone near the sea surface. The risers are without buoyancy elements through the splash zone, and thus are less exposed to the water forces in the upper zone of the sea.
Owner:PGS OFFSHORE TECH

Method and apparatus for converting ocean wave energy into electricity

A power-generating device located in or on the surface of the ocean for generating power utilizing the energy in ocean wave motion. The device is moored to the bow and stern at ˜45° to incoming ocean waves, and with a yawing capability to adjust to change in wave direction. The device delivers power to a shore grid via a submarine cable from a generator. A rotational driving torque to the generator is produced by two long counter-rotating drive tubes, which are held by bearings in the bow hull and the stern hull of the device. As an alternative, hydraulics may be employed for energy capture and power smoothing and used to provide the rotational torque through a hydraulic motor to drive a generator. The main body is partially submerged and has multiple pod floats connected to the structure by rocker arms with bearings through which the drive tubes pass or double-acting hydraulic rams between the arms and the main body, which capture energy through pod displacement and store it in accumulators. Rotary torque of the drive tubes is produced when the pods move up and down according to motion of the waves and is transmitted to the generator to generate power. In the hydraulic case, energy is stored in accumulators as pressure due to the double-acting hydraulic pistons pumping when the pods move up and down according to the motion of the waves. Hydraulic pressure drives a pump, which provides torque to the generator.
Owner:DEHLSEN ASSOC LLC

Rocking ship propulsion and the rocking propelled ship

For any directed sea waves the rocking propelled ship can reach high speeds if it utilizes an sea waves energy by means of 1. A rocking propulsor, which is a couple of hydrofoils kept elastic cross by pivots on the extreme points of streamline narrow keel-rocker, extended far out off long sizes of the ship and thus wags hydrofoils vertically with a speed and an amplitude being sufficient for its proper work; 2. A "pendulum design" of a rocking propelled ship, described by a light wide body with weight, concentrated in a middle lowest ship's part and having a vertical keel with a heavy bob. This design provides the highest efficiency of an energy transmission from waves to ship rocking. In case of need to increase ship's speed some more its rocker should be rigged by an on-board oscillator, which is a central heavy flywheel, which is alternately twisted up to speed by a serve motor in both directions on cross axle in time (resonance) of ship rocking. In order to accelerate and change revolution directions without energy loss the flywheel is supplied by spring returners. If the ship is assigned to navigate in both sea state cases (high or calm) the oscillator is mounted into the rocking propulsor, which is attached to the ship bottom with a hinger. It can be locked to the bottom to be swinged by a rocking ship hull to propell the ship by wave generated rocking motion. It can be unlocked to be swinged by the board oscillator undependently from the ship hull to propel the ship in case of calm sea.
Owner:RGT UNIV OF CALIFORNIA +1
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