Multipurpose modular marine platform

Although marine energy is huge, it is dispersed over very large areas, with only some locations favored. For this reason, the optimal configuration of a marine capture system is a modular, flexible one. Depending on the geography of the respective location, the platform can include a variable number of modules of different types, to constitute a unitary system. Our multipurpose modular marine platform puts together several types of capture systems:

• wave energy capture modules with oscillating columns, folding blade turbines, or point absorber buoys, (also used as compressed air reservoirs, or as gravity capture elements)

• wind energy capture modules (horizontal axis turbines mounted on independent pilars, or on the existing support/floating structure, horizontal axis turbines, or folding blade turbines)

• solar energy capture modules (PV, thermal, or hybrid)

• ocean current turbines energy capture modules

• water thermal energy capture modules

     In addition to some capture systems that are part of the state of the art, the MMP contains some innovative systems, much more suitable for a modular system. In order to achieve a high-performance unitary system, the elements for energy capture jointly use:

• the supporting infrastructure, composed of hollow cylindrical pillars, also used as reservoirs

• the floating infrastructure, composed of tanks filled with gas, sized so as to ensure the buoyancy of the entire system, provided with safe anchoring or displacement systems

• energy storage systems (with electric batteries, ICAES/TES systems, Carnot Batteries)

• systems of conversion, optimal adaptation of output parameters and supply of stored energy.

The highest power density is presented by Carnot batteries with the Ericsson cycle, with two isothermalizers, one hot and one cold tank, with active thermal insulation

Who is waiting for the platform ?

• Power producers who will have at their disposal a highly efficient and safe installation, with beneficial effects on the distribution network, with low costs, using common materials

• Energy consumers in coastal regions, who will receive cheap and "clean" energy in abundance

• Coastal residents, port and tourist facilities, which will be protected against the destructive effects of waves and winds

• The inhabitants of planet Earth, who will be protected from the destructive effects of thermal and chemical pollution