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Award-winning
collaboration uses
3D modelling
Transpower congratulates its
collaboration partners CPB
HEB Joint Venture on their win
at the recent 2019 New Zealand
Workplace Health and Safety
Awards.
Transpower worked with the
Transmission Gully construction
team and developed the 3D
modelling that played a role in
ensuring the safety of the public
and workers on the project.
The project won CPB HEB Joint
Venture the 3M award for Best
use of innovative New Zealand
design or technology to eliminate
or manage a risk.
Transpower GM Projects Cobus
Nel said Transpower is proud to
have been part of the project
that prioritised safety: “This
is a great example of industry
collaboration and clever use of
technology to enable CPB HEB
Joint Venture’s team to operate
safely in a complex and high-risk
environment.”
CPB HEB Joint Venture Structures
Manager Rudolf Joubert said
working with project partners to
develop this innovative solution
to keep workers safe under live,
high voltage powerlines shows
the project team’s commitment
to achieving excellence in health
and safety in New Zealand.
“With a number of challenges
faced by the team working on
Bridge 20, the Transmission
Gully motorway structures
project team should feel proud
of their achievement,” said Rudolf
Joubert.
To ensure the safety of workers
and the public, Transpower’s
engineering team created
3D models of the four-metre
safety envelope (safe operating
distance) around overhead transmission
ABB systems to power Arctic Offshore Farming’s new salmon farming concept
with remote controlled submersible fish pens.
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lines where CPB HEB was
using cranes to erect bridges on
the new Transmission Gully route.
Two crawler cranes were
equipped with dual mast GPS
receivers and the latest Trimble
Marine Construction (TMC)
software that uses real-time
kinematic GPS (RTK) to map
the position of the crane’s main
boom, fixed jib and main body to
within 30mm accuracy.
Onboard, a touch screen shows
the driver a 3D view of the crane
boom’s proximity to the closest
conductor and the closest section
of the safety envelope, ensuring
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ABB undertakes unique aquaculture project
Arctic Offshore Farming is developing a
new concept for salmon farming using
remote controlled and submersible fish
pens based on offshore technology.
ABB will have a comprehensive system
responsibility for electrical, automation,
instrumentation and telecom solutions.
Arctic Offshore Farming is a Norway
Royal Salmon (NRS) project. NRS has
received 7.68 development permits that
allow the company a total of up to 5990
tons of salmon at the fish farm location.
Harsh environment
The offshore farm consists of two large
fish cages that are placed in the Norwegian
Sea outside Troms, in an area
where weather and wave conditions
are far more demanding than inside the
fjords, where traditional farms are located.
Placing the farm offshore reduces its
environmental footprint, while providing
an opportunity to study if this can provide
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a healthier environment for the fish.
But the harsh climate also means stricter
safety requirements are required.
ABB will be responsible for designing
the monitoring and control systems that
will make it possible to operate the plant
safely. This means, among other things,
that there are back-up solutions, or redundancy,
in critical systems such as
energy supply and communication.
The solution is a part of ABB Abilit, the
company’s unified, cross-industry digital
offering — extending from device to
edge to cloud — with devices, systems,
solutions, services and a platform that
enable our customers to know more, do
more, do better, together.
High demands for stability
Pontoons over and under the fish pens
will keep the pens in place in two different
positions. In the service position,
the facility is lifted to allow access to
the equipment. In the normal operating
position, the roof of the cages will lie 10
meters below the sea surface. This will
result in reduced lice impact, while at
the same time lowering the risk of escape.
In ballasting and de-ballasting (raising
and lowering), the fish pens will be partially
submerged.
Among the most critical systems are
the pontoon ballast water systems, designed
to ensure that the pens are stable.
ABB will deliver the control system
with sensors, monitoring, automation
and interfaces for the remote control
of the pumps. The harsh climate in the
Norwegian Sea presents challenges
with fouling and icing, which will cause
time-varying weight changes challenging
the constructions ballast system
supplied by ABB.
Extensive data collection
The system also collects environmental
data including as meteorological conditions,
ocean currents, oxygen level and
sea temperature. It also monitors the pH
at different depths and the amount of
biomass in the cages, amongst others.
“One purpose of awarding a development
license is to find solutions to some
of the challenges the industry has today
so that it can continue to grow in
a sustainable way. The pens will be unmanned
and operate in submerged operation.
The fish pens are remotely controlled
from a feed barge that lies about
400 metres from the pens. Technically,
the fish farm can just as easily be managed
from a control room on land,” says
Lars Wasa Andersen, sales specialist
(Aquaculture) at ABB.
ABB is working to be the most valuable
partner within electrical, instrument,
automation and telecom systems for
aquaculture customers to help improve
efficiency, environmental impact and
productivity across the value chain, including
enabling new solutions for fish
farming offshore and onshore. Fish welfare,
traceability and food safety are key
focus areas of ABB’s support.
“The contract fits perfect with ABB’s
vision regarding aquaculture. With this
project, ABB is entering as a supplier
to the future offshore fish farms, which
places new demands on both safe operation
and technical solutions. ABB has
total responsibility for technical solution
within several disciplines”, says Steffen
Waal, country manager of ABB Norway.
The entire solution will be in place by the
end of Q3 2020.
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