MARLIN AQUA - Sustainable Energy Access for Offshore Aquaculture

用于水产养殖的“MARLIN AQUA -模块化浮动平台”项目旨在通过应用“模块化系统方法”探索/解决海洋水产养殖的挑战，使海上浮动平台的配置能够直接响应客户的操作需求和限制而进行设计、分析、组装和安装。用于水产养殖的浮式海上风力是一个新概念，主要集中在公用事业规模涡轮机的应用上。较小的单个产品是可行的，模块化方法降低了安装成本。重点关注可持续发展目标14——保护和可持续利用海洋和海洋资源，促进可持续发展。对海洋和潮汐河流、河口和三角洲的过度捕捞已经导致宝贵的鱼类资源枯竭，损害了生态系统，并最终意味着我们的海洋将在子孙后代中变得不那么丰富/多产。水产养殖作为“蓝色经济”中的一个部门，为全球人口提供很大一部分粮食的需求正在推动这一发展。在此背景下，有助于加强粮食安全（可持续发展目标2）、促进可持续经济增长（可持续发展目标8）、促进可持续消费和生产（可持续发展目标12）以及加强全球可持续发展伙伴关系（可持续发展目标17）。增长的一个关键领域是苏格兰、挪威、加拿大、智利的大西洋鲑鱼养殖，这些地区都有扩大海上作业的计划（海洋能源系统（OES）参考：海上水产养殖报告，2022年4月）。将作业转移到更深的水域提供了解决实践中与水产养殖相关的挑战的机会，并有可能产生积极影响：*水质管理和疾病控制*对化石燃料的依赖程度*燃料转移期间的海上作业H&S使用NetZero人和地球系统方法，该项目将探索：-与主要利益相关者（养鱼场所有者/经营者，行业，政府，学术界）的挑战，问题，水产养殖部门的压力使其能够根据自己的做法/需要设计一个平台。识别与能源相关的机会，以提高发电设备的安装、运行和维护的成本效益。该项目旨在帮助Frontier技术公司克服该行业转型变革的主要制约因素，将创新投资的动机转变为延长现有系统的使用寿命，因为这些系统本质上已经不再适合使用。通过观察和超越当前实践中固有的问题，允许出现不同系统的潜力，发展当前实践，不仅以系统意识的方式设计，而且以系统转移的方式设计。设计成果将支持投资或未来的资金申请。

'MARLIN AQUA - Modular Floating Platform' for Aquaculture project aims explore/address the challenge of oceanic aquaculture by applying a 'Modular System Approach' enabling offshore floating platform configurations to be designed, analysed, assembled, and installed that directly respond to the customers' operational needs and constraints. Floating offshore wind for aquaculture is a new concept and has focussed on the application of utility scale turbines. Smaller individual products are feasible, and the modular approach reduces installation costs.Primary focus is on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 - Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. Overfishing of the sea and tidal rivers, estuaries, and deltas has resulted in depletion of precious fish stocks, it harms ecosystems and ultimately means that our oceans will be less abundant/productive for future generations. Aquaculture as a sector within the 'Blue Economy' is being driven by the need to provide a significant proportion of food for global populations. In this context, helps efforts to strengthen food security (SDG2), promote sustainable economic growth (SDG8), promote sustainable consumption and production (SDG12), as well as strengthen global partnerships for sustainable development (SDG17).A key area for growth being Atlantic salmon farming in Scotland, Norway, Canada, Chile, all with expansion plans in offshore operations (Ocean Energy Systems (OES) Ref: Offshore Aquaculture report April 2022). Shifting operations to deeper water provides opportunity to address the challenges associated with aquaculture in practice, with potential to positively impact:* Water quality management and disease control* Level of reliance on fossil fuels* Offshore operative H&S during fuel transfersUsing a Design for NetZero people and planet systemic approach the project will explore:-With key stakeholders (fish farm owners/operators, industry, government, academia) the challenges, issues, pressures in the aquaculture sector enabling development of a platform designed based on their own practices/needs.-Identifying energy related opportunities to improve cost-effective installation, operation, and maintenance of the generating equipment.The project aims to help Frontier Technical overcome major constraints to transformational change in the sector, shifting away from motives that investment in innovation goes into extending the lifespan of existing systems that are, at heart, no longer fit for purpose. By looking at and beyond the problems inherent in the current practices allows the potential for a different system to emerge, evolving current practice, designing not only in a systems-conscious way, but a system-shifting way. Design outputs will support investment pitches or future funding applications.