Tideland Signal has supplied Statoil ASA with a comprehensive package of aids to navigation to warn shipping in the vicinity of its revolutionary ‘Hywind’ floating wind turbine.
Hywind, the world’s first full-scale, floating wind turbine designed for deployment offshore, is part of a 400 million NOK project. It features a 2.3MW Siemens turbine with three blades of 80 metre diameter, mounted on a spar buoy. It can be located in waters ranging from 120 to 700 metres depth in order to take advantage of optimum wind and environmental conditions, also obviating the need for foundations, which are extremely expensive at depths greater than 30 to 50 m.
The tower, rising to 65 metres above sea level, is marked by three Tideland MLED-155 Syncrolan, single-lift light stations, each with a range of 5 NM. They are mounted on stainless steel pedestals at 120° intervals around the circumference of the tower at a height of 15 metres and are quipped with 48-hour battery back-up.
Tideland’s MLED-155 is designed for use with an external power source, in this case solar, and offers minimal maintenance requirements and a service life of seven years on station in the most demanding environments. Long-life LEDs and high-integrity electronics housed in a tough UV-resistant polycarbonate enclosure ensure that lantern will not need to be opened during its service life and, when buoy-mounted, will even withstand being submerged in salt water. In the Hywind application, it is fitted with a yellow MaxiHalo 60 multi-code LED flasher, sunswitch and on-board GPS to synchronize the flash code.
Information: Tideland Signal
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