Floating type solar power generation equipment stage device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing floating-type solar energy generating systems face issues with stability, ecological impact, high costs, and maintenance due to large, rigid floats that block sunlight and oxygen, are prone to damage, and require inconvenient installation and adjustment.
Innovation Solution
A floating-type platform system using a platform frame with annular hollow floats made from recycled materials, adjustable buoyancy, and connecting frames to form a stable array structure that allows sunlight penetration and easy assembly, while using waste tires for buoyancy and metal couplers for stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If large-area rigid floats are used to provide sufficient buoyancy, then the platform stability is improved, but the contact area with water level increases which blocks sunlight and reduces dissolved oxygen, adversely affecting aquatic ecology
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is divided into multiple modular units, each with its own smaller floats. These modular units can be connected to form a stable platform while maintaining smaller individual float sizes that allow water and light penetration, thus reducing ecological impact while preserving overall platform stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses flexible float materials that can adapt to environmental conditions. The floats are designed with thin-walled structures that provide sufficient buoyancy while minimizing water resistance and allowing light penetration, reducing their harmful ecological impact compared to large rigid floats.
2Device complexity
If rigid HPDE floats are used, then the platform structure is simple, but the floats are expensive and have no resistance to ultraviolet rays, being damaged after 5 years of use
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs composite float structures combining multiple materials with complementary properties. The floats use UV-resistant materials or coatings that protect against ultraviolet degradation, while maintaining structural simplicity. This composite approach extends float lifespan beyond 5 years while keeping the overall structure simple and easy to manufacture.
3Reliability
If broken floats are repaired, then the platform can continue operating, but the repair process is difficult and maintenance is inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The modular platform design allows individual float units to be independently replaced. When a float is damaged, only that specific modular unit needs to be detached and replaced, rather than repairing the entire platform. This significantly simplifies maintenance operations while keeping the platform operational.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs floats as replaceable consumable components. Instead of investing in complex repair processes, the system uses affordable, easily replaceable float units. When a float deteriorates, it can be quickly swapped out for a new one, reducing maintenance complexity and cost.
4Device complexity
If the platform uses fixed buoyancy floats, then the structure is simple, but the overall displacement is large during typhoons or large waves, adversely affecting solar panel assembly stability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates adjustable buoyancy mechanisms that allow the platform to dynamically adapt to environmental conditions. During calm periods, the platform maintains normal operating height for optimal solar panel function. During storms or high waves, the buoyancy can be adjusted to reduce overall displacement and improve stability, protecting the solar panel assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform uses variable buoyancy parameters that can be changed in response to environmental conditions. By adjusting the amount of buoyancy provided by the floats, the system can optimize stability during adverse weather while maintaining operational efficiency during normal conditions, without requiring a completely complex structural redesign.
5Stability of the object's composition
If rigid floats are used, then the platform structure is stable, but the floats will hit the land when water is gone due to drought and directly withstand the weight of solar panels, causing damage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses flexible float materials that can deform and absorb impact forces. When drought causes water level to drop and the platform contacts land, the flexible floats can compress and cushion the impact, preventing direct transmission of the solar panel weight to the float structure, thus avoiding damage.
Solution Approach 2:
The float design incorporates built-in cushioning characteristics that activate before catastrophic failure occurs. The flexible material structure provides progressive deformation that absorbs impact energy during drought conditions, protecting both the floats and the solar panel assembly from sudden shock loads.
6Adaptability or versatility
If the bottom of the pool is not flat, then the installation location is flexible, but the gravitational force causes deformation of floats and solar panels
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible float structure can adapt to uneven pool bottoms by deforming to match the terrain while maintaining buoyancy. This flexibility allows the platform to be installed in locations with non-flat bottoms without causing deformation to the solar panels, as the flexible floats absorb the irregularities in the supporting surface.
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 system provides enhanced stability, ecological benefits by increasing oxygen levels, reduces costs through material reuse, and simplifies installation and maintenance, while maintaining solar panel integrity and aquaculture support.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of floats 2 each being an annular hollow member with buoyance
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AI summary
Provided is a floating type solar power generation equipment stage (10) device, comprising a carrier (1) and a plurality of floating collars (2). The carrier (1) is made of a hard material, and has an outer frame portion (11) in a horizontal direction and a link bar (12) disposed at the center of the outer frame portion (11). Further, the outer frame portion (11) is vertically disposed with a plurality of straight strip-shaped bonding columns (13) downwards, and an adjustment portion (14) for adjusting the buoyancy of the stage is disposed on the carrier (1). Each of the plurality of floating collars (2) is a buoyant hollow ring, and its center has a sleeve hole (114) into which the bonding column (13) can be inserted so that the floating collars (2) can be arranged vertically up and down on the bonding column (13), and the stage (10) can be floated on the water with vertical buoyancy. Moreover, there is a water flow spacing between the vertically arranged floating collars (2), thereby having better floating stability and maintaining ecological functions.