Patent ID: 8444182

Claim:
A water intake pipe of an ocean thermal energy conversion power plant, the ocean thermal energy conversion power plant having a water pump installed at an end of the water intake pipe proximate to a sea surface, characterized in that the water intake pipe is formed by connecting a plurality of connecting sections, each connecting section comprises two flange disks, a plurality of steel ropes, and a flexible tube, and each connecting section being fixed by a corresponding flange disk, and the plurality of steel ropes of each connecting section are coupled around the two flange disks to constitute a cage form, and each end of each of the steel ropes is coupled to one of the flange disks, and disk, and the flexible tube disposed between the two flange disks covers an external side of the plurality of steel ropes, both ends of each of the steel ropes to extending outside of the flexible tube; and the water intake pipe comprises a support means, and the support means includes the plurality of steel ropes with variable size and quantity at each connecting section, the connecting section closer to the sea surface has the steel rope with a higher load-carrying capacity, and the steel rope closer to the sea surface has a greater tension for supporting the flexible tube to be enclosed in a diameter capable of bearing a pressure from pumping of sea water.