In cooperation with IHC and research partners MARIN and ECN, a scale model of a first device comprising the technology, an offshore access bridge has been tested.
The research project indicates balanced heave compensation enables a range of potential benefits compared to currently available solutions.
An active heave compensation system adds an active component to a traditional passive heave compensation system in order to counteract these residual forces / in order to counteract load amplification, in effect minimising the movement of the load.
In BHC systems, load amplification is unlikely to occur since the mass is substantially balanced in the whole range of movement of the spring.
Residual forces are minimized and therefore unexpected conditions such as variations in the wave pattern have a negligible effect on the working principle.