Deep-sea multi-energy integrated platform for complementary power generation, production, living and exploration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing offshore platforms are limited in their functionality, lacking integration of multiple energy sources, space expansion, and environmental sustainability, which restricts the development of deep-sea aquaculture, tourism, and resource exploration, leading to increased operational costs and environmental pollution.
Innovation Solution
A deep-sea multi-energy integrated platform that combines wind, solar, tidal current, and wave energy generation with a semi-submersible structure, incorporating a triangular platform design with netted mariculture zones, energy storage, and adaptable stabilizing features, enabling comprehensive energy harvesting and versatile use for production, living, and exploration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single offshore power generation mode is used, then the platform structure is simple, but economic benefits and sustainable development are restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple power generation modes (wind, solar, wave, tidal current) into a single integrated offshore platform, merging previously separate functions into one unified structure that achieves both structural efficiency and enhanced economic benefits through diversified energy production
Solution Approach 2:
The offshore platform is designed with multi-functionality, serving as both a power generation facility and a base for deep-sea aquaculture, tourism, and resource exploration, thereby expanding productivity beyond single-purpose energy generation
2Ease of operation
If mariculture is concentrated in short shallow sea, then the operation is convenient, but spatial resources are limited and water quality environment is severely polluted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions mariculture from shallow coastal areas to deep-sea environments, utilizing the vertical and horizontal space beneath and around the offshore platform structure, thereby expanding spatial resources while maintaining operational accessibility through the platform's integrated design
3Productivity
If existing tourism development mode is used, then the tourism industry develops rapidly, but industrial integration is low and characteristic is unremarkable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges tourism with deep-sea exploration, aquaculture observation, and multi-energy power generation activities, creating an integrated industrial complex that enhances adaptability and versatility while maintaining rapid tourism development through differentiated characteristic experiences
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The platform utilizes renewable energy sources for sustainable power generation, reduces operational costs, enhances energy efficiency, and integrates multiple functions such as aquaculture, tourism, and research, promoting environmental protection and efficient resource utilization.
Implementation Method 1
a wind-driven generator disposed on an end of a top surface of the upper platform housing to convert wind energy into electric energy
Implementation Method 2
a solar panel disposed above a middle portion of the top surface of the upper platform housing to convert solar energy into electric energy
Implementation Method 3
a wave power generation apparatus disposed among the current guide columns to convert wave energy into electric energy
Implementation Method 4
several tidal current power generation apparatuses disposed on a top surface of the lower platform housing to convert tidal current energy into electric energy
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AI summary
A deep-sea multi-energy integrated platform for complementary power generation, production, living and exploration includes a platform body and a sustainable power supply system, where the platform body includes a column cabin, an upper platform housing, a lower platform housing and a current guide column; the column cabin, the current guide column, the lower platform housing and the upper platform housing are mutually connected to form a triangular platform with a hollow cavity, and a net is disposed in the hollow cavity to form a mariculture zone; the sustainable power supply system includes a wind-driven generator disposed at an end of a top surface of the upper platform housing, a solar panel disposed above a middle portion of the top surface of the upper platform housing, a wave power generation apparatus disposed on the current guide column, and several tidal current power generation apparatuses.