Conductive slip rings required for marine economic development

Conductive slip rings required for marine economic development

Seventy-one percent of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans, and our understanding of the oceans is much less than that of land. In the future, the development and utilization of the oceans will undoubtedly be a major trend in human economic activities, leading some to predict that the 21st century will be the century of ocean development. As we all know, ocean development relies on various specialized equipment, among which conductive slip rings play a crucial role. As an internationally renowned manufacturer of conductive slip rings, JINPAT has developed various types of conductive slip rings for marine development equipment.

From the current level of engineering technology, human ocean development activities can be categorized into several major types: marine fisheries, marine energy exploration and exploitation, offshore wind and tidal energy development, deep-sea reliability, and deep-sea exploration. Taking marine fisheries as an example, in addition to various types of fishing vessels, offshore aquaculture is also very popular worldwide. In the context of nearshore fisheries and aquaculture, specialized conductive slip rings are needed for underwater robotic systems and underwater monitoring equipment reels. Based on the slip ring cases provided by JINPAT, these products include high-protection conductive slip rings and high-tech optical-electrical integrated slip rings.

Compared to the scenarios of fisheries activities, the conductive slip rings used in the marine energy extraction industry are much more complex. Taking offshore oil drilling platforms as an example, they require a variety of equipment that uses conductive slip rings. The conductive slip rings used on different equipment vary greatly. For instance, the deck cranes require conductive slip rings with high power transmission capabilities, which must also meet the explosion-proof requirements specified by national standards for offshore oil drilling platforms. Besides drilling platforms, integrated slip rings in the mooring systems of offshore oil refineries and FPSOs are also high-tech products.

Deep-sea exploration equipment primarily uses integrated conductive slip rings. They are usually installed in the control centers of research vessels to transmit signals and electrical energy between deep-sea detectors and the mother ship. The signal modules in these integrated conductive slip rings generally use multi-channel fiber optic slip rings, and single-mode fiber optic slip rings are used to transmit signals over longer distances. Similarly, to transmit electrical energy to depths of several kilometers in the deep sea, the working voltage of the conductive slip rings is also designed to be relatively high. This design greatly reduces the current passing through the conductive slip rings.