Abstract
Triton Systems is working toward lowering the levelized the cost of energy (LCOE) for the marine renewable energy (MRE) industry by focusing on one of the costliest portions of offshore energy field development: anchoring.
Triton’s Helical Anchor Group Installation System (HAGIS) is designed to target soil and mooring conditions that current anchors fail in. Specifically, HAGIS is being developed to provide an anchoring solution for high-uplift mooring conditions. Triton’s collaboration with Texas A&M University (TAMU) and the Offshore Technology Research Center (OTRC) is focused on developing a viable new anchoring solution for the MRE industry. This anchor will accurately secure MRE converters to the seafloor without a need for vast amounts of mooring components in the water and on the seafloor that can cause severe environmental and fishing industry impacts. OTRC, with its thirty-plus years of mooring and anchoring testing expertise, will provide Triton Systems with soil-structure computational and numerical modeling capabilities to analyze and develop an anchor in realistic soil profiles and loading conditions.
Specifically, this test will quantify the effects on holding capacity in normally consolidated clay profiles of four issues: monotonic load capacity of the combined helical piles and skirt system, installation disturbance effects and corresponding set-up times, anchor performance under cyclic loading, and creep effects on HAGIS.