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The MERMAID Project: Combining Food and Energy Production Offshore Andrew Brennan a.j.brennan@dundee.ac.uk
@UoD_Geotechnics
Civil Engineering University of Dundee 22 February 2017
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GeoWAVE: Mooring & anchoring for WECs
The GeoWAVE project has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under Grant Agreement no. 287056
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MERMAID: Multi-use Offshore Platforms • Facilities such as offshore wind farms occupy large areas and compete with other users of the maritime space. • Aims to develop novel innovative designs for multi-use offshore platforms and assess the technical, economical and environmental feasibility of constructing, installing, operating, servicing, maintaining, transport and decommissioning • UoD acting as foundation and seabed stability modellers • €7.4M EU funded – FP7 ‘Oceans of Tomorrow’ programme • 28 partner institutes: Universities (11), Research institutes (8), Industries (5) and Small and Medium Enterprises (4 SME's) across EU
MERMAID "Innovative Multi-purpose offshore platforms: planning, design and operation” (FP7-OCEAN.2011-1 Grant Agreement no.: 288710)
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MERMAID: Multi-use Offshore Platforms
Tourism
Fishing Diving
Scientific studies MERMAID "Innovative Multi-purpose offshore platforms: planning, design and operation� (FP7-OCEAN.2011-1 Grant Agreement no.: 288710)
Aquaculture
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Test Sites • Deep water site: Atlantic Ocean – Wind + wave together – but not aquaculture
• Sheltered site: Mediterranean – Wind + sea bream/bass was viable – distance to shore?
• Active bed site: Wadden Sea – Wind turbines + seaweed and/or mussels was viable
• Estuarine Site: Baltic Sea – Perfect site for both wind energy and salmonid cultivation