Glasgow (United Kingdom)

38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering

12 Jun 2019

Join us in Glasgow to learn more about The Blue Growth Farm H2020 Project!

We are glad to announce that Fabrizio Lagasco - Corporate R&D Special Operations – will take part in the 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering to present “The Blue Growth Farm”.

Started on 1st June 2018, this project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement number 774426 in order to develop and demonstrate an automated, modular and environmentally friendly multi-functional platform for open sea farm installations of the Blue Growth Industry.

The main challenges to build The Blue Growth Farm platform are:

design for low environmental impact
develop engineering design for the diverse interactions (wind rotor – concrete platform; concrete platform modules connection; concrete platform – cage connections; cage connections – mooring system)
provide sustainable solutions to the different interactions between the installed technologies, fish farm and living sea environment
optimise / maximise production rate and profitability

In the framework of the Symposia dedicated to Ocean Space Utilization taking place on 12 June from 10.30 AM to 12.00 PM, the Project Consortium will present four papers containing all the latest advancements of the project:

“New Engineering Approach for the Development and Demonstration of a Multi-Purpose Platform for the Blue Growth Economy” (RINA)
“Frequency Domain Analysis of a Hybrid Aquaculture-Wind Turbine Offshore Floating System” (Strathclyde University)
“Analysis of the Coupled Dynamics of an Offshore Floating Multi-Purpose Platform: Part A : Rigid Body Analysis” (Strathclyde University)
“Analysis of the Coupled Dynamics of an Offshore Floating Multi-Purpose Platform: Part B : Hydro-Elastic Analysis With Flexible Support Platform” (NOEL)

More information is available on OMAE website.

The OMAE 2019 will be hosted by one of the Blue Growth Farm partners: the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde.