Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre Pte Ltd

Keppel Fels Limited

Bernard Voon Ee How

Kok Seng Foo

Xuan Wang

Wey Lii Lee

Shaikh Afshar Hussain

Rajinee Kuna

The invention provides a power storage and supply method and system for a drilling rig. The system comprises a primary common direct current (DC) bus, at least one secondary DC bus, at least one bi-directional DC-to-DC converter connected between the primary common DC bus and the secondary DC bus, at least one motor group each connected to the secondary DC bus through a DC-to-AC inverter, and an Energy Storage System (ESS) configured to be charged by regenerative energy from at least one motor group and discharge power to at least one motor group through the primary common DC bus and the bi-directional DC-to-DC converter. The system may further comprise a bi-directional AC-to-DC converter between the primary DC bus and an AC bus, wherein the ESS is further configured to be charged by regenerative energy generated during lowering operation of a jacking system for the drilling rig, wherein the jacking system is connected to the AC bus.

Power storage and supply method and system for a drilling rig

A cargo transfer monitoring system at least comprises at least one vessel motion sensor, one pair of wireless modems, a central data processing unit with decision-making module, a rugged display panel as the operator station, and communication coupling. The cargo transfer operation will be carried out by a crane operator sitting in the crane cabin on the primary vessel. The transfer will take place either from target vessel to primary vessel or from primary vessel to target vessel. The sensor(s) collect the real-time motion of vessels, which is carried over to the central computer through data cable or wireless radio link. The decision-making module predicts the motion of the vessels for a subsequent time period. Based on the predicted value, the decision-making module projects the expected or predicted impact force on the payload if the operation is started at the particular time. If the predicted impact force on the payload is below a predetermined threshold, the system recommends the crane operator to resume the landing operation. The system can predict the motion and hence the rope tension for lifting operations and make similar recommendation to resume the lifting operation if the predicted rope tension falls below a predefined threshold.

System and method for guiding cargo transfer between two bodies

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