Deployment, release and recovery of ocean riser pipes

Details Deployment, release and recovery of ocean riser pipes Deployment, release and recovery of ocean riser pipes

1978-08-21

1980-11-18

Taylor, Dennis L.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Marine structure or fabrication thereof

405 52, 405188, 114264, F02D 2100

Patent

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042342694

ABSTRACT:
An ocean thermal energy conversion facility includes a long pipe assembly which is supported at its upper end by the hull of the floating facility. Cold water flows to the facility from deep in the ocean. The pipe assembly comprises an elongate pipe construction and a weight connected to the lower end of the construction by a line of selected length. A floatation collar is connected to the construction at its upper end to cause the construction to have positive buoyancy and a center of buoyancy closer to the upper end of the construction than its center of mass. The weight renders the entire pipe assembly negatively buoyant. In the event that support of the pipe assembly should be lost, as by release of the assembly from the facility hull in an emergency, the assembly sinks to the ocean floor where it is moored by the weight. The pipe construction floats submerged above the ocean floor in a substantially vertical attitude which facilitates recovery of the assembly.

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