Mooring structure for ocean wave energy converters
Patent
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OSTI ID:2294004
A mooring system for an Ocean Wave Energy Converters (OWEC) includes multiple structural members such as legs and braces that are linearly extendible and connected using mobile joints, each joint providing two degrees of freedom for rotations about the joint. Mobile joints also attach bottom ends of the legs to mooring points. A jacking system can change lengths of the extensible structural members to adjust depth of the OWEC for operation or for storm safety, to lift the OWEC out of the water for maintenance, or to align the OWEC to an incoming wave direction.
- Research Organization:
- Atargis Energy Corporation, Pueblo, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0008626
- Assignee:
- Atargis Energy Corporation (Pueblo, CO)
- Patent Number(s):
- 11,851,143
- Application Number:
- 17/149,388
- OSTI ID:
- 2294004
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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