develop a novel way of reducing the costs via a hybrid energy harvest system, which incorporates various devices

以具有成本效益的方式收集可再生能源是推广绿色能源的关键一步。该项目旨在开发一种通过混合能源收获系统降低成本的新方法，该系统在共享平台上集成了各种设备，如海上风力涡轮机，波浪能吸收器和潮流涡轮机。为了进一步降低成本，还建议探索重新利用废弃石油和天然气平台安装能源装置的可能性。这种新型混合系统旨在增加有限海洋空间的能源生产，重新利用废弃的石油和天然气平台，并降低能源成本。现有的石油和天然气平台数据将从工业合作伙伴那里获得，用于混合系统设计和建模。博士生将由一个由岩土工程，结构工程，流体动力学和生命周期评估专家组成的团队监督。

Harvesting renewable energy in a cost-effective way is a crucial step to promote green energy. This project aims to develop a novel way of reducing the costs via a hybrid energy harvest system, which incorporates various devices, such as offshore wind turbines, the wave energy absorbers, and tidal current turbines, on a shared platform. To further reduce the costs, it is also proposed to explore the possibilities of re-purposing the abandoned oil and gas platforms to install the energy devices. This novel hybrid system aims to increase the energy production on limited ocean space, re-use the abandoned oil and gas platforms, and reduce the levelised costs of energy. Existing oil and gas platform data will be obtained from industrial partners for hybrid system design and modelling. The PhD student will be supervised by a team consisting of experts from geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, fluid dynamics and life cycle assessment.&