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The design of a Kuroshio power plant begins with the selection of turbine. Once the turbine is chosen, the turbine anchoring system will be designed accordingly, followed by the designs of construction procedure and relevant equipments. Figure 2.1 shows the conceptual design of the Kuroshio power plant, which was made under a major concern that the design must securely anchor hundreds of turbines in deep ocean under the action of a dynamical force of hundreds of thousands of Newton. This is an unprecedented challenge stemming mainly from the design of an effective anchorage system.
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Chen, F. (2013). Conceptual Design of Kuroshio Power Plant. In: The Kuroshio Power Plant. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00822-6_2
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