Westermost Rough Pile Gripper
Business Unit Equipment
Introduction
KCI’s Business Unit Equipment creates smart concepts and practical designs
which predominantly find their application on vessels in the Oil & Gas and
Renewables Industry. Our R&D specialists and engineers create and shape
new concepts by fusing innovative thinking with sound engineering knowledge.
Our designs aim to find the best practical solutions for our customers and are
always created in close communication with our customers. We design,
engineer, provide support during fabrication & installation and can even
deliver the equipment as EPCM supplier. Our engineers are often onsite at our
customers’ locations for manufacturing support and offshore for installation
support. This hands-on experience turns them into even better engineers.
Often our clients require a solution on very short notice. Through their flexibility,
experience and skill set, our engineers can always deliver the required response time.
The equipment we design covers the whole spectrum of mechanical engineering systems,
ranging from simple and elegant solutions to entire back-deck layouts.
By-pass bellmouth
Inclined Fall Pipe System
IFPS
The design objective for the Inclined Fall Pipe System (IFPS) was to enable
precision rock placement around the legs of fixed oil & gas platforms and
offshore wind structures such as monopiles and jackets in shallow waters.
With the normal rock dumping fallpipes these locations cannot be reached
as the fallpipe is positioned through a moonpool in the centre of the vessel.
The IFPS, designed by KCI, consists of separate closed fall pipe sections
which are modularly assembled from the aft deck. From the aft of the ship,
the IFPS extends an inclined cantilevered pipe, reaching approximately 20
metres behind the vessel. Through this 50 metre-long pipe of 1.20 metre
diameter, extremely precise rock placement is possible.
1. Equipment/tooling
Stingers
KCI has designed several stingers in various configurations; open and
closed cross-sections, and consisting out of either one, two or three
segments. KCI designs are immediately recognisable by their ingenuity,
tailor-made to the vessel ensuring safe operations. For vessels with
versatile operations, KCI has developed stingers which can easily be
removed and installed again enhancing flexible operational deployment of
our customers’ vessels.
Smart Quadrant
KCI has designed and engineered many ingenious mechanical systems, such as:
Quadrant Handler
On top of that, its performance surpasses all pile grippers available today.
The KCI pile gripper compensates for horizontal movements in longitudinal
as well as transverse directions. The gripper not only properly positions the
pile, it also extracts energy from its pendulum motion during pile lowering to
seabed, preventing excessive loads on the vessel’s crane.
The pile gripper is only connected to the main deck of the vessel, thereby
minimising the interference with avessel structural integrity.
Stinger
Cable lay systems
KCI has developed multiple turntables, static tanks and baskets as well as
cable highways and loading tower systems. Both for onshore and offshore
applications.
2. Mechanical systems
Pile gripper
The KCI pile gripper has been designed to operate on the upper boundary of
monopiles specifications that have been installed up to today.
The biggest advantage of the KCI pile gripper is the simplicity of the design.
With a static welded frame and less moving parts, the KCI pile gripper
provides a reliable and low-cost solution.
Umbilical loading tower
Quadrant handler
KCI has developed a smart quadrant handling system for cable lay ships for
which patents are pending. Where conventional quadrant handling involves
complex manual handling with many simultaneous motions to be
controlled, the KCI quadrant handler allows for safe and easy overboarding
of the quadrant with only one controlled motion, while observing tangency
of the cable to the vessel’s chute.
For various clients KCI has developed different tools and equipment. Most of
these designs have .been developed for a specific project, requiring smart
solutions and short lead times. Some examples of these tools are: chutes,
smart lifting beams, automatic quadrants, bell mouths and reel drives.
Stiff Joint Hydraulic Lifting Beam
Quadrant Handler
Pile gripper
Ferris wheels
KCI is quite famous for designing big Ferris wheels. In fact the world’s
largest wheels are being designed and engineered by us. Operating at the
edge of what is technically feasible is quite exciting. It takes new
approaches and new technologies to meet those challenges. At KCI we are
at our best when pushed into the unexplored and the almost impossible!
Our know-how on Ferris wheel is unparalleled in the world.
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Ferris wheel
3. Deck layouts
As a true back-deck specialist, KCI provides its customers a complete in-house
service encompassing all prerequisites to design, engineer and manufacture
equipment ranging from single components to complete marine handling
systems. Customers like to involve KCI at an early stage to keep design options
open so KCI’s creative and experienced engineers can come up with the best
conceptual solutions. We love to spar with you from first ideas, can quickly deliver FEEDs, basic and detailed designs and
can take care of fabrication & installation management.
KCI has been involved in a large number of cable lay-deck layouts. Ranging from smaller, project specific mobilisations to
generic cable lay vessel deck layouts, such as Boskalis’ NDurance and Van Oord’s Nexus. For both vessels KCI has been
involved from the conceptual stage to the detailed phase of designing equipment and vessel interfaces.
NO102 - Gjoa
Hanjin Pioneer - Qatar
Explorer - Britned
Yew Choon Marine - Java Bali
Boskalis Ndurance
Pompei - Q13
Olympic Taurus - Northwind
Neptune - Thornton Bank
Contact
If you want to learn more about our Consulting &
Engineering services please visit our website kci.nl,
send an email to info@kci.nl or call us at the telephone
number mentioned below.
Pompei - Thornton bank
Van Oord Nexus
KCI the engineers B.V. | De Brauwweg 60 | 3125 AE Schiedam (NL) | +31 (0)10 4270 399 | info@kci.nl | www.kci.nl