This document discusses floating power stations. It provides an introduction to floating power stations, noting their ability to supply electricity to districts or facilities temporarily needing power. It then covers the history, design considerations, workings, recent developments, advantages, and disadvantages of floating power stations. In conclusion, it states that floating power stations can have positive environmental impacts by absorbing and utilizing natural energy.

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