World's Largest Single-Unit Capacity Floating Wind Power Platform 'Mingyang Tiancheng' Sets Sail
TapTechNews August 12th news, according to the official news of Mingyang Group, on August 11th, the Mingyang Tiancheng floating wind power platform with the largest single-unit capacity in the world set sail from Nansha, Guangzhou, and headed to the Mingyang Qingzhou Four Offshore Wind Farm in Yangjiang, Guangdong.
It is introduced that the working journey of the Mingyang Tiancheng is about 191 nautical miles, and the towing time is about 72 hours. After departing from the Nansha port basin in Guangzhou, the Mingyang Tiancheng sailed into the estuary of the Pearl River along the outbound shipping lane of Guangzhou Port, and after meeting with the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, it sailed out of the Lingding Ocean. Subsequently, the Mingyang Tiancheng will continue to move westward, passing through the Zhuhai, Jiangmen and Yangjiang Nanpeng Island Offshore Wind Farm, and finally heading to the destination.
TapTechNews learned that the Mingyang Tiancheng was independently developed by Mingyang Group, with two towers arranged in a V shape and equipped with two 8.3-megawatt offshore wind turbines, with a total capacity of 16.6 megawatts, which can be applied to the global extensive sea areas with a water depth of more than 35 meters. The highest point of its rotor is 219 meters, and the maximum width in the air is about 369 meters. The overall towing design draft is 5.5 meters, and the total drainage of the platform is about 12,000 tons, and when it reaches the site and is ballasted to the operating condition, the total drainage of the platform is about 15,000 tons.
Mingyang Group disclosed that the Mingyang Tiancheng has achieved a number of global firsts. Its floating foundation is the first in the world to be made of ultra-high performance concrete material with a compressive strength of more than 115 MPa, and the strength of this concrete material is about 4 times that of ordinary concrete. The fiberglass shell + XPS core material + protective coating material scheme used by the pontoon is also a world first, breaking through the limitation of traditional pontoons using pure steel structure or steel-concrete structure. In addition, the design of the wing-shaped twin towers, twin main engines, and twin wind turbines, as well as the application of the cable system are all global firsts.