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INNOVATIVE HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES FOR OTEC PIPES, PLATFORMS AND PLANTSHIPS

(Temps de lecture: 1 - 2 minutes)

IOA News Letters Summary

by
Robert Cohen
Mega Marine Structures, Inc.
U.S.A.

An innovative, low-cost, fiber-reinforced-polymer honeycomb (FRPH) sandwich composite is being introduced for marine applications (cf. Sea Technology, April 1993).   Corrosion-resistant FRPH structural elements are applicable to many components of   land-based and floating OTEC plants, with OTEC cold water pipes (CWPs) being a likely early application.  Prototype 2.5-meter diameter cylindrical underground FRPH fuel-storage tanks - which resemble OTEC CWPs - have been tested by Underwriters Laboratories.  At CWP diameters of about one meter or greater, relatively low-density FRPH CWPs appear to be economically attractive compared to CWPs made of solid FRP.   FRPH CWPs could be built having diameters of 30 meters or greater.  A 10-meter diameter FRPH CWP, for example, would employ outer and inner skins about one centimeter thick.  The outer skin would be filament-wound.  To adjust the FRPH CWP's buoyancy, the nested-wave core, about 15cm thick, would be partially flooded with sea water via pressure-equalizing vents in the top of the pipeline.  Pipe-section lengths ranging from about 20 to 35 meters would probably be employed, although it would be   possible to construct a continuous pipeline without joints by forming it in a "spiral-wrap" operation (much as cardboard tubes are manufactured).

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