半潜式平台动力定位系统推进器失效时域模拟

针对某最新的深水半潜平台,应用PID控制策略和卡尔曼滤波技术相结合的方法对其动力定位能力进行了研究,重点关注在两台推进器于不同时刻分别失效后的平台运动和推进器功率消耗信息。在平台的运动时域分析中,通过采用数值模拟与实验验证相结合的方法来获得平台的水动力数据;而在推力分配过程中,以最小功率消耗为优化目标,并考虑了推进器的机械物理特性及水动力干扰造成的推力损失对推进器的推力进行了分配。结果表明编制的模拟软件具有理想的模拟效果,该平台在指定海况下动力定位能力良好。     

深水半潜式生产平台耦合动力特性对比研究

应用数值模拟与模型试验相结合的方法研究半潜式生产平台系泊状态下的耦合动力特性。建立耦合分析模型,时域内计算求解平台的动力响应,选取缩尺比为1∶60,采用等效截断模型方法对数值模拟结果进行验证。通过对比模型试验与数值模拟结果发现:等效截断系泊系统可以较好地模拟平台的位移响应,但在系泊张力方面却差异较大,此外极端海况下平台的甲板上浪问题也必须得到充分重视。     

LNG-FSRU在软刚臂系泊下水动力特性研究

针对35万立方米超大型LNG-FSRU,采用软刚臂单点系泊系统定位方式,运用模型试验与数值计算两种技术手段开展风、浪、流联合作用下水动力研究。软刚臂系泊系统各构件间的连接方式及Yoke重量模拟是数值计算与模型试验的关键,数值计算对构件间的铰接方式与Yoke重量进行模拟,模型试验同样模拟了系泊系统的相似性,并将数值计算结果与模型试验结果进行对比分析。结果表明,软刚臂系泊系统刚度曲线呈非线性,试验结果与数值结果吻合良好,表明对于软刚臂系泊系统的两种模拟是合理的,反映了LNG-FSRU在风、浪、流联合作用下的运动特性,建立的研究方法可用于软刚臂系统的水动力研究。     

锚泊辅助动力定位系统推力器故障模式影响分析

锚泊辅助动力定位是将锚泊定位和动力定位相结合的一种新型位置控制系统。以某深水半潜式钻井平台为例,通过时域模拟分析了两个推力器失效模式对平台锚泊辅助动力定位系统定位精度、功率消耗及缆绳张力的影响。分析结果可以看出,深水作业时平台同一配电板上两推力器失效对平台水平偏移有很大影响,可通过减小或取消失效推力器相邻推力器的禁止角及拉紧迎风缆并松弛背风缆的方法来减小平台偏移,节约功耗,为动力定位系统的故障模式与影响分析提供了参考。     

新型干树半潜式海洋平台垂荡运动性能研究

在深海油气田开发中,干式采油树比湿式采油树具有更多优势。为减小半潜平台的垂荡运动,使其能够采用干式采油树,对一种深吃水且具有大面积下浮箱的新型半潜平台的运动性能进行了探究。基于势流理论,采用频域和时域相结合的分析方法,计算了平台在多种海况下的运动响应,为新型平台的运动分析和设计提供指导。同时,开展了水池模型试验,将计算结果与试验结果相比较,验证了数值模拟结果的准确性。为进一步探究新型平台的运动性能,研究了下浮箱放置深度对平台运动性能的影响,并进行相应的模型试验。研究表明:下浮箱的存在可大幅改善新型干树半潜平台的垂荡运动性能。综合考虑平台运动性能和工程实际应用条件,确定了最合适的下浮箱放置深度值。     

张力腿平台涡激运动模型试验与数值分析

为揭示张力腿平台涡激运动响应规律,采用数值模拟与模型试验相结合的方法研究了全水深系泊张力腿平台涡激运动响应。根据张力腿平台主尺度参数,按照几何相似制作了水池试验模型,在满足运动相似和动力相似的条件下开展了均匀流、剖面流模型试验,并将模型试验结果与数值模拟结果进行了对比,验证了数值模拟与模型试验结果的一致性。分析结果表明在均匀流作用下张力腿平台涡激运动的锁定区间在5.5<U_r<8.5,来流角对涡激运动影响较大。剖面流作用下平台涡激运动规律与均匀流作用基本一致,但剖面流造流引起的能量分散,使平台在XY平面的运动轨迹变得不规律,系泊系统提供的回复力对涡激运动幅值有抑制作用,来流角和流速对张力腿或立管模态影响明显。论文得到结论对于张力腿平台的工程设计有一定借鉴意义。     

半潜平台锚泊辅助动力定位时域模拟研究

随着海洋油气资源开发逐渐走向深海,浮式结构物的定位能力越来越受到人们的重视。锚的泊辅助动力定位系统是将锚泊定位和动力定位相结合的一种新型海上定位系统。它具有安全性高、定位能力强、消耗功率小的特点。本文以某深水半潜式钻井平台为例,通过建立锚泊辅助动力定位时域模拟程序,分析平台在工作海况下的定位精度和功率消耗,并与相应海况下的动力定位进行比较。分析结果表明,该时域模拟程序能较为准确的地反映实际平台的定位情况。与动力定位相比,锚泊辅助动力定位能够取得更好的定位精度和较小的功率消耗,是更理想的定位方式。     

基于强化学习的锚泊辅助动力定位系统智能决策研究

针对半潜平台锚泊辅助动力定位系统的最优定位点问题,设计了基于强化学习中深度神经网络的Q学习(DQN)控制策略的锚泊辅助动力定位的智能决策系统。该决策系统中DQN方法与比例—积分—微分(PID)控制方法相结合使用,实现系统优化。在基于机器人操作系统(ROS)平台的动力定位时域模拟程序中进行数值仿真,仿真结果验证了该系统在定位点决策问题上的可靠性和有效性,从而使半潜平台在面对未知海况时,均能寻找到最优定位点,在保证锚泊辅助动力定位系统可靠性的同时降低功率消耗,提高经济性。     

台风海况下半潜式钻井平台动力性能监测与分析

半潜式钻井平台在海洋油气资源开发中发挥着重要作用,目前主要采用模型试验和数值模拟方法对其动力性能进行研究,非常缺乏台风等极端海况下半潜式平台动力响应的实海域监测数据。以某半潜式钻井平台为研究对象,构建了一套比较完善的平台动力性能监测系统,并对台风“杜苏芮”过境阶段的监测数据进行了分析。根据平台艏部气隙及运动监测数据推算了平台吃水及环境波高;采用随机波浪的统计分析方法,计算得到短期海况的有效波高、谱峰周期、能量谱等信息,通过与多种典型海浪谱对比发现Jonswap谱与所测波谱吻合较好;对平台的横摇、纵摇及垂荡运动进行了时域统计分析和频域谱分析,得到了台风海况下被测平台波频运动的实际响应特征,对于指导平台抗台作业具有重要意义。     

锚泊辅助动力定位系统艏向控制模式研究

锚泊辅助动力定位系统是一种将锚泊定位与动力定位结合起来的新型定位方式。对该系统的艏向控制模式进行了研究。在该模式下,控制系统将只对平台的艏向运动施加约束。同时对平台在该模式下的定位进行了时域模拟,并与锚泊定位和水平面三自由度均施加约束的全定位模式进行了对比。结果表明,在一般海况下,相比锚泊定位,该定位模式能显著提高平台的艏摇控制精度;相比全定位模式,该定位模式消耗的功率更小、更经济。艏向控制模式是锚泊辅助动力定位系统的一种工作模式,在相应海况条件下采取该定位模式,能够实现精确和经济的定位。     

锚泊辅助动力定位系统单缆失效影响研究

针对半潜式钻井平台锚泊辅助动力定位系统在海上作业时可能会出现的单缆失效情况。以一艘半潜式平台为例,设计锚泊辅助动力定位系统。通过全动态时域模拟,研究不同的单缆失效模式对半潜式平台锚泊辅助动力定位系统功率消耗、定位精度、缆绳张力等的影响。根据分析结果,在极端海况下,松弛锚泊辅助动力定位系统的背风缆有助于降低定位系统的功率消耗,提高定位精度和系统的安全性,从而为锚泊辅助动力定位系统的工程应用提供一些参考。     

用于拆平台的双船协同动力定位试验研究

大型海洋结构物的退役和拆除是油气行业面临的一个巨大挑战。双船起重拆除法提供了一种低成本、高效、灵活的解决方案,该方案采用两艘具有动力定位功能的半潜运输船从平台两侧将平台上层组块托起,随后协同托举运输至第三艘半潜运输船上后转运送至陆地。在这个过程中涉及到两艘及三艘船的协同动力定位作业,这对动力定位系统的同步性具有很高要求。多船近距离协同动力定位会受到螺旋桨与螺旋桨、船体与船体及螺旋桨与船体之间的干扰,动力定位的性能会受到影响。为此开展了相应的水池模型试验研究,对复杂环境下多船协同动力定位性能进行了分析,包括定位精度、功率消耗等,并对动力定位风险点进行了深入研究,验证了双船起重拆除法的可行性,并对实际工程的施工提供一定指导意见。     

精密单点定位技术在海上工程中的应用

结合海上科研工程实践,对GPS精密单点定位模型及数据处理方法进行研究,并采取陆上静动态定位和海上动态定位试验进行了精密单点定位精度统计和分析。结果表明:在超出常规差分定位基线长度限制的广阔海域,采用精密单点定位技术可实现亚米级实时动态定位,为海上高精度实时动态定位应用提供了技术依据。     

Application of data-driven models in the analysis of marine power systems

Utilization of measurements from on-board monitoring systems of marine vessels is a part of shipbuilding industry’s digitalization phase. The data collected can be used to verify and improve vessel’s power system design. Deployment of data-driven statistical models can enhance the knowledge about the power requirements. In this study, we describe a data-driven statistical model that can be used to study and analyze the power requirement of a vessel, which might help to understand the key factors that influence the power and to quantify their contribution. We propose a powerful tool namely, generalized additive model (GAM), which allows us to model nonlinearities. We build the GAM to see the relationship between power consumed and the key influential factors for a power system based on real data from a platform supply vessel (PSV) in a dynamic positioning (DP) mode with diesel-electric configuration. We also describe the importance of feature extraction based on Hilbert Transform to improve the model. In addition, we fit the linear regression (LR) model as a reference model. In the last phase we verify the results of GAM, LR with simulation model from ShipX to show that the data-driven model is within the boundaries of power requirement from simulations.     

Design and reliability analysis of DP-3 dynamic positioning control architecture

As the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas proliferate throughout deepwater area,the requirements on the reliability of dynamic positioning system become increasingly stringent.The control objective ensuring safety operation at deep water will not be met by a single controller for dynamic positioning.In order to increase the availability and reliability of dynamic positioning control system,the triple redundancy hardware and software control architectures were designed and developed according to the safe specifications of DP-3 classification notation for dynamically positioned ships and rigs.The hardware redundant configuration takes the form of triple-redundant hot standby configuration including three identical operator stations and three real-time control computers which connect each other through dual networks.The function of motion control and redundancy management of control computers were implemented by software on the real-time operating system VxWorks.The software realization of task loose synchronization,majority voting and fault detection were presented in details.A hierarchical software architecture was planed during the development of software,consisting of application layer,real-time layer and physical layer.The behavior of the DP-3 dynamic positioning control system was modeled by a Markov model to analyze its reliability.The effects of variation in parameters on the reliability measures were investigated.The time domain dynamic simulation was carried out on a deepwater drilling rig to prove the feasibility of the proposed control architecture.     

Dynamic Response Analysis of the Equivalent Water Depth Truncated Point of the Catenary Mooring Line

The real-time computer-controlled actuators are used to connect the truncated parts of moorings and risers in the active hybrid model testing system. This must be able to work in model-scale real time, based on feedback input from the floater motions. Thus, mooring line dynamics and damping effects are artificially simulated in real time, based on a computer-based model of the problem. In consideration of the nonlinear characteristics of the sea platform catenary mooring line, the equations of the mooring line motion are formulated by using the lumped-mass method and the dynamic response of several points on the mooring line is investigated by the time and frequency domain analysis method. The dynamic response of the representative point on the mooring line is analyzed under the condition of two different corresponding upper endpoint movements namely sine wave excitation and random wave excitation. The corresponding laws of the dynamic response between the equivalent water depth truncated points at different locations and the upper endpoint are obtained, which can provide technical support for further study of the active hybrid model test.     

Impact Analysis of Air Gap Motion with Respect to Parameters of Mooring System for Floating Platform

In this paper, the impact analysis of air gap concerning the parameters of mooring system for the semi-submersible platform is conducted. It is challenging to simulate the wave, current and wind loads of a platform based on a model test simultaneously. Furthermore, the dynamic equivalence between the truncated and full-depth mooring system is still a tuff work. However, the wind and current loads can be tested accurately in wind tunnel model. Furthermore, the wave can be simulated accurately in wave tank test. The full-scale mooring system and the all environment loads can be simulated accurately by using the numerical model based on the model tests simultaneously. In this paper, the air gap response of a floating platform is calculated based on the results of tunnel test and wave tank. Meanwhile, full-scale mooring system, the wind, wave and current load can be considered simultaneously. In addition, a numerical model of the platform is tuned and validated by ANSYS AQWA according to the model test results. With the support of the tuned numerical model, seventeen simulation cases about the presented platform are considered to study the wave, wind, and current loads simultaneously. Then, the impact analysis studies of air gap motion regarding the length, elasticity, and type of the mooring line are performed in the time domain under the beam wave, head wave, and oblique wave conditions.