US 11,920,559 B2
Floating platform for high-power wind turbines
Miguel Vazquez Romero, Madrid (ES); Noelia Gonzalez Patiño, Madrid (ES); Elena Martin Diaz, Madrid (ES); Alejandro Perez Caldentey, Madrid (ES); José María Ortolano Gonzalez, Madrid (ES); Raúl Guanche Garcia, Santander-Cantabria (ES); Victor Ayllon Martinez, Santander-Cantabria (ES); Francisco Ballester Muñoz, Santander-Cantabria (ES); Jokin Rico Arenal, Santander-Cantabria (ES); Marcos Cerezo Laza, Santander-Cantabria (ES); and Iñigo Javier Losada Rodríguez, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to DRAGADOS S.A., Madrid (ES); and FHECOR INGENIEROS Y CONSULTORES S.A., Madrid (ES)
Appl. No. 17/418,828
Filed by DRAGADOS S.A., Madrid (ES); FHECOR INGENIEROS Y CONSULTORES, S.A., Madrid (ES); FUNDACION INSTITUTO DE HIDRAULICA AMBIENTAL DE CANTABRIA, Santander-Cabtavrua (ES); and UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA, Santander-Cantabria (ES)
PCT Filed Dec. 28, 2018, PCT No. PCT/ES2018/070839
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/136288, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0065226 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. F03D 13/25 (2016.01); B63B 1/10 (2006.01); B63B 1/12 (2006.01); B63B 5/20 (2006.01); B63B 35/44 (2006.01)
CPC F03D 13/25 (2016.05) [B63B 1/107 (2013.01); B63B 5/20 (2013.01); B63B 2001/126 (2013.01); B63B 2001/128 (2013.01); B63B 2035/442 (2013.01); B63B 2035/446 (2013.01); F05B 2240/93 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A floating platform for high-power wind turbines, of the type including a resistant base, which has a mooring line at each corner through which it is anchored to the seabed, being maintained in a semi-submerged position, on the base of which a central cylinder and at least four peripheral cylinders are constructed, all of them made of reinforced concrete, the central cylinder of which extends vertically in a wind turbine tower, wherein five hollow reinforced concrete cylinders include said central cylinder and said at least four peripheral cylinders, and wherein the floating platform comprising:
a concrete substructure, forming the base of the platform, and consisting of:
a square lower slab forming the base of the platform;
a series of slab/base beams providing structural stiffness to the slab, being attached to and above the same, at the same time that they brace the five hollow reinforced concrete cylinders from below, by remaining embedded in them;
said five hollow reinforced concrete cylinders distributed at the corners and the centre of the lower slab, executed by means of sliding from the slab, once this has been executed and stiffly joined forming a single body with said slab and with said series of slab/base beams which join them; and
a metal superstructure, which supports a concrete substructure and forms the base for connection with the wind turbine tower, being coupled at the centre thereof, consisting of:
metal covers covering each of peripheral cylinders and the central cylinder;
vertical pillars which come out from the covers located on the five hollow reinforced concrete cylinders, which remain linked together by means of superstructure/pillar beams, and
corresponding systems of said superstructure/pillar beams which join, on the one hand, the vertical pillars of the four peripheral cylinders to each other, and, on the other, diagonally join each pillar to the central pillar and to a central metal element, whereon the base of the wind turbine tower is secured, transmitting the load from the base to each of the four pillars, wherein radial beams of said superstructure/pillar beams remain embedded.