EU Grants $2.7M for Research Into Novel Concrete Materials for Offshore Renewables
new floating structures in an effort to reduce cost and CO2 footprint, as well as improve circularity and reliability in the offshore renewable energy sector.The three-year project, starting in December 2023, is implemented by a consortium of research organizations and companies, including RISE, Delft University of Technology, Gdansk University of Technology, Pekabex, PLOCAN, with wave energy developers Carnegie Clean Energy, and Ocean Harvesting Technologies, as well as floating solar company Solar Duck.Concrete structures are said to be low cost, resistant to the marine environment, and are easy and
MTR100: Deep-sea Mining May Prove Pivotal in the Climate Change Discussion
plumes created by DSM in the Pacific, Peacock hopes to determine if the second plume can be returned in the mid-water column or closer to the seafloor, and how this may impact ecosystem processes and organism function.Dr. ir. Rudy Helmons, assistant professor for offshore and dredging engineering at Delft University of Technology, and adjunct associate professor for deep-sea mining at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, is experimenting with the nodule collection process, as well. In a previous EU H2020 project, Blue Nodules, the collection technology was proven as effective, with a hydraulic
Aquaculture: Inside the De Maas’ Offshore Fish Farm
Philip Schreven for insight on the design and operation particulars of their innovation.How did you became involved in this unique niche of the maritime industry?Mark van Leeuwen and I founded De Maas in 2007 as an offshore oil and gas services company. Both Mark and myself did our Master’s at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. After a short while working in Europe we decided to go to China and, together with many colleagues, were part of building Yantai Raffles Shipyard (today CIMC Raffles) from 2001 to 2007, delivering many first-off support vessels, offshore floating platforms and
Dutch Flood Defense, The Natural Way
reinforcement of the Houtribdijk by means of the research and monitoring program now applied on the full, large-scale, solution, which is no longer a small-scale pilot site. The current research and monitoring program on the full-scale solution is being led by Rijkswaterstaat in collaboration with Delft University of Technology.“The knowledge that we are gaining here will be very useful in the Netherlands and beyond,” Meuldijk says.The importance of on-site ADCP monitoringThe extent to which desktop modeling can help on such a pioneering project is limited, given the multiple forces at work
Furgo Taps Heine as New CEO
responsibilities. From 2012 he served as regional director Europe-Africa for the survey division. In 2013 he became director of the survey division, and in April 2015 he was appointed by the shareholders meeting as member of the management board. He holds a MSc in geodetic engineering from Delft University of Technology.Løseth will step down as CEO and chairman of the Board of Management per October 1, 2018 and act as an adviser until the end of 2018. He has been a member of the Board since January 2018 and CEO since April 26, 2018
Heijermans Joins Boskalis Management Board
extensive experience in the offshore industry, having recently served as CEO and board member of subsea services provider DeepOcean. Prior to that, he held various senior management positions at companies including Helix Energy Solutions and Shell. Heijermans has a civil engineering degree from Delft University of Technology
Seismic Software donated to Delft U of T
CGG GeoSoftware has donated its Jason and HampsonRussell seismic reservoir characterization software suites to Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. The donation of a full HampsonRussell suite and the renewal of an enhanced Jason package will enable students at the Department of Geoscience & Engineering to expand their theoretical and practical knowledge of quantitative reservoir characterization and inversion techniques. Myrna Staring, PhD student at TU Delft, said: "A team of students are currently using our new HampsonRussell software suite to take part
Rotterdam Port Tests In-Water Drones
, you can create an environment in which innovation is likely to take place and be in line with the market.” The Port Authority achieves this through an Innovation Eco System. Castelein: “We support research in conjunction with universities, such as the Port Innovation Lab with Delft University of Technology and of course our own Erasmus University in Rotterdam. And we collaborate with contests for students. In addition, we support Dutch start-ups that are relevant to the port, but we also scout worldwide via PortXL; the first accelerator that focuses on port start-ups on a global
Babcock, BMT Support Human-powered Sub Races
, tangible machine. It is also a great way to learn to work together as a team in a pressured environment.” There are nine university teams that have now qualified: Texas A&M, University of Michigan, Rhine Waal University, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, University of Bath, Delft University of Technology, University of Auckland, University of Warwick and University of Washington. Bentely Altizer, Captain of the University of Washington team, commented, “We have a very unique situation where dozens of people get together and rally around a common goal. It's a really
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