Restructuring the Ship Repairing Zone of Perama Greece

Invest in New Opportunities and High Technology Projects NEW Technologies

Unsinkable Floating Truss Platform UNFLOP

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Wind - River - Tidal - Wave Turbine Generators  

• Themistoklis Andrew Andrikopoulos – Inventor of the NEW Technologies• Physics & Electronic Engineering, Manchester University, 1976 • President – Managing Director of ΑΤΙΟ Group

• www.atio-andrikopoulos.blogspot.com

Session 3: Advances in Green Shipbuilding MarineTech Summit-2011

Unsinkable Floating Truss Platform

UNFLOP is based on the concept of Truss System-

Technology with Articulated Joints (AJOT) that provide extra

strength-elasticity to the Truss-Space Frame and make Assembly-Disassembly of individual truss

members a very fast easy and safe operation

UNFLOP

comprises individually buoyant water-tight truss members which are interconnected with AJOT

Members can be tubes, hydrofoils or other shapes to match each application

UNFLOP can float free in deep waters and keep the same geographic position using a GPS Dynamic Positioning System or be moored to the

seabed in more shallow waters using loose or taught lines (TLP)

Mooring can be from multiple points of UNFLOP if necessary

For the tourist industries UNFLOP provides options for application in all kinds of possible ...........

..........or IMPOSSIBLE cases!!!

UNFLOP can create NEW CONDITIONS for the high-end tourist market worldwide by providing UNLIMITED

application options in MANY near-shore locations and bring prosperity where it seams not possible

(and NOT ONLY!!)

Such developments though would need IMMEDIATE SUPPORT from all Responsible Authorities and

SMART INVESTORS.....

........with first INVESTOR question: «...How much?...What is the ROI??»…..and first INNOVATOR answer: «its not much…........ It should be like opening the BAR in any good location on land................»........

With such view UNFLOP can be the most wanted..«Floating Real Estate»

Why is UNFLOP Stable in Waves??Waves can slide-by the hydro dynamically shapedtubes through the open space between them and the up-down buoyancy effects cancel each other outand cannot influence the overall system INERTIA

Why is UNFLOP Unsinkable??A 200x200m UNFLOP would comprise some 10.000individually buoyant tubes weighing around 7.000 t. and more than 4.000 tubes must loose buoyancy forUNFLOP to be in any danger of sinking!!!

...even if it’s bombed... UNFLOP does NOT…FLOP!!

Marine Renewable Energy Sources Integrated Applications Platform

MARESINAP

UNFLOP is a most suitable floating structure for supporting WWT-PWT technology of

Wind-Tidal-Wave Generators and operating in open ocean conditions

The concept of Wing & Paddle Wheel Turbine utilizes both fluid dynamics force components Drag AND Lift, to convert the kinetic energy of any fluid to rotational-mechanical energy while also minimising any parts of those forces opposing the turbine rotationThis way efficiencies can be much higher and long term overall product costs much lower than those of other known technologies

This is one WWT prototype Wind Turbine in Wind Tunnel tests at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) fluid mechanics laboratories

Each Wing-Paddle comprises individual Airfoils-Fins that can turn by a reselected angle on their own axis within fixed-preselected limits, using the fluid flow to reach two terminal positions, one best suited to absorb energy from Drag forces while minimising any opposing Lift forces and the other best suited to absorb energy from Lift forces while minimizing any opposing Drag forces. It’s like wind opening-closing doors depending on the direction it hits them, or Wind-Surfers standing on the frame and turning their individual sails in the best positions to harvest more wind energy as they move up or down-wind

Each Wing-Paddle comprises individual Airfoils-Hydrofoils that can turn by a preselected angle on their own axis within preselected limits, using the fluid flow to reach two terminal positions, one best suited to absorb energy from Drag forces while minimising any opposing Lift forces and the other best suited to absorb energy from Lift forces while minimizing

any opposing Drag forces

WWT-PWT products are based on modular multi-section design with independent Airfoils-Hydrofoils in each section

Size 100x100m MARESINAP

Estimated possibilities of Power Generation

Up to 50 units WWT-Wind Turbines each 100 kW at 15m/s wind speed – 4 sections 5m high with 5m Rotor Diameter and 30 m height from platform

Up to 10 units PWT Wave Turbines each 500 kW max – 20 sections 5mlong with 5 m Rotor Diameter and 100m total length Up to 50 units PWT Tidal Turbines each 200 kW at 4m/s water speed – 4 sections 5m high with 5 m Rotor Diameter at useful depth from platform

Total power output estimated up to 20 MW

Existing technology Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines can also be supported on MARESINAP-UNFLOP

MARESINAP - UNFLOP

Size 200x200m MARESINAP

Estimated possibilities of Power Generation

• Possibility for up to 200 units WWT Wind Generators each 100 kW with 5 m Rotor and 60 m height from platform level

• Possibility for up to 50 units of PWT Wave Generators each 100-400 kW • The possibility for installing PWT Tidal Generators cannot yet be

estimated

Total power output estimate up to 40 MW

UNFLOP AND DO NOT FORGET….

…Even if it’ s bombed…...

...UNFLOP does NOT... FLOP !!

What about this 2002 technology of the 4 leg Deepwater Horizon which was

bought for 560 mil USD and was rented by BP for 500 k USD per day

Unfortunately it is SINKABLE..

Deepwater Horizon sunk and destroyed the riser that spilled the oil because it lost 2 of its 4 legs from the fire

All these «column-stabilized semi-submersible» floating rigs, as also Alexander L. Kielland that took 123 people down with it March 1980 in the North Sea, have the same problem, they

sink as soon as they loose even ONE of their 4-5 legs

Would it not be safer to have the 10.000 UNFLOP 200x200m legs ??

And one more thing….Overpopulation

*We are now 7 billion humans on Earth....*By 2050 we will be 10 billion.....*And by 2080 maybe some more........*HOW ARE WE GOING TO FIT ON LAND ???*The sea-side real estate will soon be gone....

*Is it possible to have ON-sea real estate? like.. UNFLOP The «Floating Real Estate»?

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