Marine Design Project: Kermit

• In order to meet growing energy demands, the world can no longer rely solely onconventional energy sources of the industrialization era. The renewable energy industry isgrowing fast to compensate for the energy deficit, while keeping the negative impact of thisgrowth on the environment to a minimum.The 2014 Marine Design Project client Blekinge Offshore AB has proposed a 700 windmillfarm in the Swedish waters of the Bay of Hanö. As part of this national-scaled project, thedesign and production of a vessel capable of transferring and installing the gravityfoundations as well as the windmills themselves needs to be designed.This report presents a special purpose vessel which uniquely combines principles of heavycargo lifting by ballast water management, winches and the ability to ground The Vesselduring loading of the cargo. The 7983 DWT vessel will shuttle between the coastal assemblysite and the wind farm site at a speed of 10 knots and facilitate the lifting, transporting andmounting of the foundations as well as the already assembled windmill towers. The Vesselitself is designed in such a way to have the smallest possible impact on the environment, asThe Baltic Sea is among the most tightly controlled regions in the world.The vessel is designed with special human factor considerations in order to cater for thesafety and comfort of the crew and the installation technicians, by means of sea keeping andaccommodation considerations. Despite the vessels size and the highly advanced operations itwill be performing, it only requires a crew size of 8 people.Also equipped with state of the art Dynamic Positioning technology, the vessel insuresaccuracy of operations while maintaining the shortest possible time schedule, thusminimizing operational costs.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Farkostteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Vehicle Engineering (hsv//eng)

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