OTEC mooring system development: recent accomplishments. Technical report

Technical Report · Thu Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5086701

Ross, J M; Wood, W A

The mooring system for a floating OTEC platform consists of a seafloor foundation, a platform foundation, and a connecting line. This paper introduces the OTEC mooring system with a brief historical overview, reviews developmental work accomplished during the past year, and then presents a new look at life cycle costs for an example mooring system. Since June 1980, a significant effort within the OTEC Program has been directed toward the further development of mooring systems. The effort has included work leading to a better understanding of anchoring capabilities and problems, refinement of an existing mooring analytical model, a review of OTEC past mooring designs, and the production of a mooring system technology development plan. A major finding of the past year was a new upward estimate of mooring system lifetime costs as a result of downward-revised estimates of wire rope service life.

• Research Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Rockville, MD (USA). Office of Ocean Technology and Engineering
• OSTI ID: 5086701
• Report Number(s): PB-82-156878
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140800* -- Solar Energy-- Ocean Energy Systems
42 ENGINEERING
423000 -- Engineering-- Marine Engineering-- (1980-)
ANCHORS
COST
FOUNDATIONS
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
MOORINGS
OFFSHORE PLATFORMS
ROPES
SERVICE LIFE
SUPPORTS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
WIRES