The jacking system is widely used in all kinds of offshore jack-up platforms, such as jack-up drilling platform, liftboat, wind power installation vessel platform, salvage/drilling/piling/rock-throwing levelling and other construction platforms, inserting piles, pulling out piles, platform ascending and descending, and a set of very complex devices that can fix the platform at a certain height.
The types include rack and pinion jacking system, hydraulic pin jacking system, heavy duty friction winch jacking system. Rack and pinion is divided into electric rack and pinion jacking system driven by motor and hydraulic rack and pinion jacking system driven by hydraulic motor. Hydraulic pin jacking system lifting mechanism has a ring beam form, there are lifting yoke form, according to different lifting action can be divided into single-step type, double-step type and continuous type.
Generally, the platforms which are not deep and need frequent lifting and lowering in offshore water adopt hydraulic pin lifting and lowering system, while the platforms with deeper sea water and infrequent lifting and lowering adopt rack and pinion lifting and lowering system.