floating power plant

1. FLOATING POWER
STATIONS
By
S.SELVA PRIYADHARSHINI
III-EEE-B

2. CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 HISTORY
 DESIGN CONSIDERATION
 WORKING
 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGES
 CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION
 The floating power plant can supply electricity to a
district or to a specific facility that temporarily uses
electricity
 It can minimize limitations caused by environmental
regulations
 It can be used as emergency electric power source

4. HISTORY
 In 1940,by the US Army corporation of engineers, a
30 MW power generation facility put into service in
the Philippines is still in operation in Ecuador
 In 2000,which is the largest FPP in the world was
installed in Mangalore on the west coast of India

5. DESIGN CONSIDERATION
 It is designed in such a way that, it operates only
like a ship at ship only requiring fuel for its
generating machinery
 The FPP is designed to sit in waters and move like
a vessel at sea, but rather they are designed for
service in protected inland waters such as rivers,
lagoons or ports
 The completed vessel receives a classification as a
“power barrage”
 Single barrage designs ranged from 30MW up to
530MW

6. FUEL
 The options are often limited in several countries
and one has to use it with available fuels with
irrespective of the cost
 The fuels used in power station in land or sea is
mainly depends on the availability and cost

7. POWER BARGE DESIGN

8. BARGE OPERATION
 The operations are carried out as same as the land
based facilities.
 The fpp is fitted with on board control room with
data acquisition system with machinery and
equipment tools
 Step up transformers, motor controllers, switchgear
are also installed on barge

9. TRANSPORTATION
 One of the more significant differences of a
floating power plant to a land based plant is
it’s transportability.
 It is being capable of moving the unit from
one location to another.
 This is achieved with the use of submersible
heavy lift ships, designed to move very large
structures around the world weighing
upwards of 60,000 tons.

10.  A power barge can be moved from one
location to another in a matter of weeks and
connected to the grid to alleviate local
shortages.

11. WORKING OF FLOATING POWER STATION
 The structure of floating power plant can be divided
into
1.floating platform
2.rotor with blades-floating turbine

12. FLOATING PLATFORM
The floating platform gas various functions:
 It prevents undesirable materials from entering the
rotor of the machine
 It is equipped with submerged lateral guides to
guide the river water
 It permits the adjustment of the height of the
equipment above the surface of water

13. ROTOR WITH BLADES
(FLOATING TURBINE)
 Floating turbine on the surface of the river
with the blades being immersed in the water
 The first change is nothing but the
displacement of river water proportional to
the mass of the floating turbine in its
physical space

14. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
 The recent research has come out with FPP with
more sophisticated, light weight, more efficiency
and more effective
 The latest developments in FPP
• Diesel energy
• Wind energy
• Tidal energy

15. FPP DIESEL(PHILIPPINES)

16. SOLAR FPP (JAPAN)

17. NUCLEAR FPP(RUSSIA)

18. ADVANTAGES
 Independent from soil quality
 Fast supply of electricity to areas with limited
infrastructure
 Provides addition safety in earth quake and flooding
areas
 Short delivery time
 Where land space is limited, large site area not
needed

19. DISADVANTAGES
 Infrastructure is costly when working off-shore
 The access to installations is critical when working
off-shore

20. CONCLUSION
 There are various positive environmental impacts
from the construction of fpp
 It absorbs and utilizes the energy from nature there
by reducing the use of elements which is harmful to
nature

21. REFERENCE
 http://www.floatingpowerplant.com/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powership
 http://www.powermag.com/of-floating-power-
barges-and-ships/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nucle
ar_power_station
 http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewa
bles/japan-building-worlds-largest-floating-solar-
power-plant