FLOATING POWER

STATIONS

By
S.SELVA PRIYADHARSHINI
III-EEE-B
 CONTENTS

 INTRODUCTION
 HISTORY

 DESIGN CONSIDERATION

 WORKING

 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

 ADVANTAGES

 DISADVANTAGES

 CONCLUSION
 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
 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
 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
 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
POWER BARGE DESIGN
 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
 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.
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.
 WORKING OF FLOATING POWER STATION
 The structure of floating power plant can be
divided into
1.floating platform
2.rotor with blades-floating turbine
 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
 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
 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
FPP DIESEL(PHILIPPINES)
SOLAR FPP (JAPAN)
NUCLEAR FPP(RUSSIA)
 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
 DISADVANTAGES

 Infrastructure is costly when working off-shore

 The access to installations is critical when
working off-shore
 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
 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_nu
clear_power_station
 http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renew
ables/japan-building-worlds-largest-floating-
solar-power-plant