Windfarm access system starts trials

摘要

OSBIT Power (OP) has arranged offshore trials of its innovative offshore wind access system MaXccess. UK-based OP has agreed with Siemens Wind Power and Statoil to conduct trials at Statoil's Hywind floating wind turbine demonstrator in Norway. The MaXccess system has been developed by OP, with the first production unit, MX 11/01, being completed in mid-2011. The system provides a stable platform allowing personnel to transfer safely to and from the boat landing ladders mounted on turbine foundation structures. This stable platform is achieved through a friction-based clamp, which connects the vessel to one of the boat landing tubes by a carefully engineered, patented, linkage geometry that ensures that the bow of the vessel is held stationary while the vessel is allowed to roll, pitch and yaw freely.