Research on time domain simulation of dynamic positioning for a deep water semi-submersible platform

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Lei WANG ◽  
亮 王 ◽  
Pan WANG Liang SUN
2012 ◽  
Vol 204-208 ◽  
pp. 4518-4522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Ping Sun ◽  
Shu Long Cai ◽  
Jing Chen

Semi-submersible plays an important role in ocean oil and gas exploitation. This paper carried out some researches for the dynamic positioning system (DPS) of a deep water semi- submersible. Mathematic modal was made, and a special program was created with M-language for the time-domain dynamic analysis of the dynamic positioning system of the deep water semi-submersible, on basis of the mathematic modal. PID control strategy, kalman filtering theory and optimal thrust allocation method were used in the analysis. Simulation result indicated the DPS of this platform is safe and efficient.


Author(s):  
Xu Yang ◽  
Liping Sun ◽  
Shuhong Chai

DPS (dynamic positioning system) has been widely used in floating structures, especially in deepwater area. Time domain simulation of platforms with dynamic positioning system has great significance to DP capability and riser system. Motion response of a deepwater semi-submersible platform with DPS on time domain was presented in this paper. PID (proportional, integral, derivative) controller and thruster allocation method were applied in numerical simulations of DPS. Wind, current and wave environmental loads were analyzed and limited angular speed was considered as well. Thruster failure analyses were covered and discussed also. Experiments of DPS in deep-water basin of Harbin Engineering University (HEU) were presented and compared with numerical study.


Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Se Kim ◽  
Moo Kim

This research, a new thrust-allocation algorithm based on penalty programming is developed to minimize the fuel consumption of offshore vessels/platforms with dynamic positioning system. The role of thrust allocation is to produce thruster commands satisfying required forces and moments for position-keeping, while fulfilling mechanical constraints of the control system. The developed thrust-allocation algorithm is mathematically formulated as an optimization problem for the given objects and constraints of a dynamic positioning system. Penalty programming can solve the optimization problems that have nonlinear object functions and constraints. The developed penalty-programming thrust-allocation method is implemented in the fully-coupled vessel–riser–mooring time-domain simulation code with dynamic positioning control. Its position-keeping and fuel-saving performance is evaluated by comparing with other conventional methods, such as pseudo-inverse, quadratic-programming, and genetic-algorithm methods. In this regard, the fully-coupled time-domain simulation method is applied to a turret-moored dynamic positioning assisted FPSO (floating production storage offloading). The optimal performance of the penalty programming in minimizing fuel consumption in both 100-year and 1-year storm conditions is demonstrated compared to pseudo-inverse and quadratic-programming methods.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jinhui He ◽  
Haibin Zhang ◽  
Renchuan Zhu

Offshore structures floating at sea should use their dynamic positioning (DP) system to maintain position and heading against environmental loads, including wave loads, current loads, and wind loads. It is difficult to calculate environmental loads accurately and quickly, especially for wind loads due to the shielding effect of different parts on offshore structures. To improve the accuracy of wind load calculation, a new method considering shielding effect is proposed. With the new method, calculated wind force becomes much closer to wind tunnel test than the traditional method. As input data of DP capacity analysis, the environmental loads have critical impact on the design of DP system. A static method and a time-domain simulation method of DP capacity are also proposed, and a case study of drillship is carried out. The results of both static analysis and time-domain simulation of DP capacity show that the new wind load calculation method has improved the accuracy of environmental load calculation and DP capacity analysis. Introduction As the offshore oil and gas exploitation is going further into deep sea, offshore structures are to be used in harsh marine environments, including strong wind, current, and waves. Especially for wind, it can make great effect on the dynamic positioning (DP) system of offshore structures, which is designed to maintain position and heading. Once the DP system is not able to keep the offshore structures’ position and heading, it will cause an accident such as oil leakage and oil pollution in the ocean. Because of the wind shielding effect among all parts on offshore structures, such as deckhouse, derricks, cranes, pipe racks, the wind load is difficult to calculate accurately and quickly.


Author(s):  
Marcio Yamamoto ◽  
Celso K. Morooka ◽  
Seiya Ueno

The present study deals with the dynamics of a semi-submersible platform coupled with a free-hanging vertical rigid riser during the re-entry operation in ultra-deep water. The reentry operation occurs after the drilling phases are accomplished which only use the bare drillstring. The re-entry operation entails positioning the subsurface Blow-Out-Preventer (BOP) above the wellhead and installing it to the wellhead. During this operation, the BOP is suspended by the drilling riser. The placement and installation is time consuming and requires a great amount of accuracy. One challenge is the effects of platform motions on the installation procedure. The present work was carried out with the aim to understand the influence of platform motions during the re-entry operation in ultra-deep waters. Another benefit of this study is the knowledge of the effect of platform motions on the drilling riser and BOP which leads to the possibility of drilling more than one well without the need to raise the BOP to the surface. This could greatly reduce the amount of time needed to drill subsurface wells which in turn, reduces overall operational costs. A numerical simulation in time domain has been carried out using a non-linear model for the platform dynamics. The dynamics of a free hanging drilling riser and a dynamic positioning system (DPS) of the semi-submersible platform are included in the numerical model. Simulation results in time domain of the platform displacements with DPS and riser displacement are shown. A discussion of riser displacement and DPS control is also included.


Author(s):  
Mingjie Zhang ◽  
Ole Øiseth

AbstractA convolution-based numerical algorithm is presented for the time-domain analysis of fluidelastic instability in tube arrays, emphasizing in detail some key numerical issues involved in the time-domain simulation. The unit-step and unit-impulse response functions, as two elementary building blocks for the time-domain analysis, are interpreted systematically. An amplitude-dependent unit-step or unit-impulse response function is introduced to capture the main features of the nonlinear fluidelastic (FE) forces. Connections of these elementary functions with conventional frequency-domain unsteady FE force coefficients are discussed to facilitate the identification of model parameters. Due to the lack of a reliable method to directly identify the unit-step or unit-impulse response function, the response function is indirectly identified based on the unsteady FE force coefficients. However, the transient feature captured by the indirectly identified response function may not be consistent with the physical fluid-memory effects. A recursive function is derived for FE force simulation to reduce the computational cost of the convolution operation. Numerical examples of two tube arrays, containing both a single flexible tube and multiple flexible tubes, are provided to validate the fidelity of the time-domain simulation. It is proven that the present time-domain simulation can achieve the same level of accuracy as the frequency-domain simulation based on the unsteady FE force coefficients. The convolution-based time-domain simulation can be used to more accurately evaluate the integrity of tube arrays by considering various nonlinear effects and non-uniform flow conditions. However, the indirectly identified unit-step or unit-impulse response function may fail to capture the underlying discontinuity in the stability curve due to the prespecified expression for fluid-memory effects.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1092-1093 ◽  
pp. 356-361
Author(s):  
Peng Fei Zhang ◽  
Lian Guang Liu

With the application and development of Power Electronics, HVDC is applied more widely China. However, HVDC system has the possibilities to cause subsynchronous torsional vibration interaction with turbine generator shaft mechanical system. This paper simply introduces the mechanism, analytical methods and suppression measures of subsynchronous oscillation. Then it establishes a power plant model in islanding model using PSCAD, and analyzes the effects of the number and output of generators to SSO, and verifies the effect of SEDC and SSDC using time-domain simulation method. Simulation results show that the more number and output of generators is detrimental to the stable convergence of subsynchronous oscillation, and SEDC、SSDC can restrain unstable SSO, avoid divergence of SSO, ensure the generators and system operate safely and stably


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