Ocean thermal energy conversion cold water pipe preliminary design project. Appendices to final report. TRW has developed a baseline design for each of these configurations. WHK Β« less. This report with the exception of the Introduction and Appendix F was orginally published as Hydronautics, Inc. The appendices encompass a complete user's manual, describing the inputs, outputs and operation of the four componentmore Β» programs, and detail changes and updates implemented since the original release of the code by Hydronautics.
A marine railway approach was chosen for installation of the CWP. Two methods for pulling the track for the railway down the pipe fairway to its final location are presented. The track is permanently fastened to the sloping seabed with piles installed by a remotely controlled cart that rides on the track itself.
Both the marine railway and the shelf mounted platform that houses the OTEC power plant require an anodic or equivalent corrosion protection system. OTEC modular experiment cold water pipe concept evaluation. Volume III. The concept evaluation phase reported involved a systems analysis of design alternatives in the broad categories of rigid walled with hinges , compliant walled, stockade and bottom mounted buoyant. Quantitative evaluations were made of concept performance, availability, deployment schedule, technical feasibility and cost.
CWP concepts were analyzed to determine if they met or could be made to meet established system requirements andmore Β» could be deployed by Fabrication, construction and installation plans were developed for successful concepts, and costs were determined in a WBS format.
Evaluations were performed on the basis of technical and cost risk. A commercial floating megawatt MW ocean thermal energy conversion OTEC power plant will require a cold water pipe CWP with a diameter of meter m and length of up to 1, m. The mass of the cold water pipe , including entrained water , can exceed the mass of the platform supporting it. The offshore industry uses software-modeling tools to develop platform and riser pipe designs to survive the offshore environment.
