Design and analysis of the mooring system for the box-type inverter-transformer floating platform

In the floating photovoltaic industry, the array layout, geographical location, and topographical conditions can greatly increase the difficulty to arrange the inverter-transformer in the design of a floating photovoltaic power station. Therefore, it is sometimes necessary to arrange the box-type inverter-transformer on the floating platform so that the inverter-transformer can float above the water surface. Thus the cable layout can be optimized and the economic efficiency of the project can be improved in this way. In order to ensure the stability of the inverter-transformer floating system, a specific mooring system should be designed for the floating platform. By now, the design and analysis with respect to the mooring system for inverter-transformer floating platform can rarely be conducted in the industry. In this paper, the design and analysis of the mooring system for the inverter-transformer floating platform is presented, and the related hydrodynamic calculation is performed accordingly. The design and analysis are based on the AQWA software. It can be concluded that the mooring system design presented in this paper can guarantee the stability and anti-overturning ability of the inverter-transformer floating platform. An actual engineering application of this mooring system design is finally introduced.