EURO-ECO 2007 Hanover 4 - 5 December 2007	Environmental and Engineering Aspects for sustainable living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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Shalaginov A.A.

At present the problem of search for stand-alone electrical energy sources is of particular significance. This especially refers to search for alternative power sources: waterborne (rivers, lakes, water reservoirs, the vast of sea and ocean) where standard solutions can not lead to a necessary result due to remote location from coastline, significant depth, unknown sea-floor relief and a number of other factors.

Thus, stand-alone seaborne power plants (SASPP) are offered as an alternative electrical power supply source, where energy of water is used as impellent power to rotate the generators.

SASPP shall be divided into the following groups:

• Surface floating SASPP (SF SASPP);

• Submerged SASPP (Sub SASPP);

• Combined type SASPP (CT SASPP);

SASPP shall also be classified by the way of supplying impellent power providing for rotation of the generators.

• Wave-type SASPP (WT SASPP);

• Deepwater-type (DW SASPP);

• Combined type SASPP (CT SASPP).

SF CT SASPP represent a catamaran ship with generators, main and radial current leads, distribution cabinets and other switching equipment featuring special explosive containment and waterproof implementation to provide for reliable and failure-free power supply to the users. This type of seaborne power plant provides for continuous generation of electrical power both in case of moderate sea disturbance and fully calm sea independently from weather conditions.

The following users of the power energy from SASPP are possible: ships, offshore oil and gas producing enterprising, various seaborne floating and submerged scientific research complexes and a number of other main sea power energy users.