Projects per year
Abstract
Despite a number of previous projects aimed at assessing, from a multidisciplinary point of view, the feasibility of multipurpose platforms, it is here shown that the state-of-the-art has focused mainly on single-purpose devices, and adopting a single discipline (either economic, or social, or technological, or environmental) approaches. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to provide a multidisciplinary state of the art review on, whenever possible, multi-purpose platforms, complementing it with single-purpose and/or single discipline literature reviews when not possible. Synoptic tables are provided, giving an overview of the multi-purpose platform concepts investigated, the numerical approaches adopted, and a comprehensive snapshot classifying the references discussed by industry (offshore renewables, aquaculture, both) and by aspect (technological, environmental, socio-economic). The majority of the multi-purpose platform concepts proposed are integrating only multiple offshore renewable energy devices (e.g. hybrid wind-wave), with only few integrating also aquaculture systems. MPPs have significant potential in economizing CAPEX and operational costs for the offshore energy and aquaculture industry by means of concerted spatial planning and sharing of infrastructure.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Article number | 138256 |
Journal | Science of the Total Environment |
Volume | 734 |
Early online date | 15 May 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Sept 2020 |
Keywords
- multi purpose platform
- multi use platform
- marine renewable energy
- offshore wind
- wave
- aquaculture
- social science
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'Offshore multi-purpose platforms for a Blue Growth: a technological, environmental and socio-economic review'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 2 Finished
-
INNO-MPP: Investigation of the novel challenges of an integrated offshore multi-purpose platform
Collu, M. (Principal Investigator), Kalathiparambil Abeendranath, A. (Researcher), Xu, X. (Researcher), Leithead, B. (Co-investigator), Anaya-Lara, O. (Co-investigator), Yue, H. (Co-investigator) & Recalde Camacho, L. (Researcher)
3/07/17 → 2/07/20
Project: Research
-
Investigation of the novel challenges of an integrated offshore multi-purpose platform (Newton Fund)
Collu, M. (Principal Investigator), Anaya-Lara, O. (Co-investigator), Kolios, A. (Co-investigator), Leithead, B. (Co-investigator) & Recalde Camacho, L. (Fellow)
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/07/17 → 30/06/20
Project: Research