MARLIN AQUA - Sustainable Energy Access for Offshore Aquaculture

“MARLIN Aqua--模块化浮式平台”水产养殖项目旨在通过应用“模块化系统方法”来探索/解决海洋水产养殖的挑战，从而能够设计、分析、组装和安装直接响应客户操作需求和约束的离岸浮式平台配置。海上漂浮风力用于水产养殖是一个新的概念，主要集中在实用规模的水轮机的应用上。更小的单个产品是可行的，模块化方法降低了安装成本。主要重点是可持续发展目标14--养护和可持续地利用海洋和海洋资源，以促进可持续发展。过度捕捞海洋和潮汐河流、河口和三角洲导致珍贵鱼类资源枯竭，损害生态系统，最终意味着我们的海洋对子孙后代来说将变得不那么丰富/生产力。水产养殖作为“蓝色经济”中的一个部门，其驱动因素是需要为全球人口提供相当大比例的食物。在这方面，有助于努力加强粮食安全(SDG2)，促进可持续经济增长(SDG8)，促进可持续消费和生产(SDG12)，以及加强全球可持续发展伙伴关系(SDG17)。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，所有这些都有在近海作业的扩张计划(海洋能源系统(OES)参考：2022年4月近海水产养殖报告)。将业务转移到更深的水域提供了机会，在实践中解决与水产养殖相关的挑战，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*燃料转移期间的离岸运营H&S使用NetZero人和地球系统设计方法该项目将探索：-与主要利益相关者(养鱼场所有者/经营者、行业、政府、学术界)一起探索水产养殖部门的挑战、问题和压力，从而能够开发一个根据他们自己的实践/需求设计的平台。-确定与能源相关的机会，以提高成本效益安装、运营、该项目旨在帮助Frontier Technology克服该部门转型变革的主要制约因素，改变对创新的投资用于延长现有系统寿命的动机，而现有系统在本质上已不再适合使用。通过审视和超越当前实践中固有的问题，可能会出现一个不同的系统，发展当前的实践，不仅以系统意识的方式设计，而且以系统转换的方式进行设计。设计成果将支持投资推介或未来的资金申请。

'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.