Operation, maintenance and investment strategy for offshore energy hub

PhD Candidate Ramon Abritta Aguiar Santos

Main Supervisor Alexey Pavlov

Sponsor: Equinor

The integration of offshore wind power and O&G platforms offers environmental benefits. However, the intermittent wind power cannot provide scheduled and reliable power to the O&G platforms. An energy storage system can be needed. Uncertainties in wind and O&G production processes need to be accounted for. This project will integrate different sources and types of information (e.g., time series, images, results from numerical models based on finite elements approaches) into operations-oriented models, to devise novel control and health monitoring algorithms for the management of hybrid offshore energy hubs. The research will also tackle the techno-economic study of system design that considers both capital and operational costs, along with the possibility for economic benefits from fuel savings and CO2 emission reductions.