This project follows the successful completion of the MoorPower Scaled Demonstrator Project in 2024 (Project 1.21.001). Building on the lessons learned from the demonstration and in close collaboration with future end users, the project aims to deliver the required [...]
Adaptations to educational programs are necessary as relying more heavily on seafood and marine energy production will reshape the economy and training programs of the future workforce. One of the Blue Economy CRC objectives is to educate a new [...]
Model Tests, Concept Qualification and Design Optimization In Phase 1 of the Novel Offshore Fish Pen Design, the multidisciplinary project team comprising architects, structural engineers, geotechnical engineers, offshore engineers and researchers, and fish farm operators developed a conceptual design [...]
This project aims to enhance seaweed farming using Marine Permaculture (MP), a technique that utilises submersible platforms to access deepwater nutrients, ensuring seaweed growth despite warming temperatures. In collaboration with the University of Queensland, the project will model and [...]
The main objectives of this research project are to undertake a feasibility study into the maturity of hydrogen and ammonia powered vessel technology, to consider the near-term market for such vessels operating in Australian waters and for overseas vessel [...]
In salmon aquaculture, fish feed represents one of the major costs of the business. Fish are fed whenever possible and useful, using remote feeding control systems with sophisticated monitoring and sensors. Fish feed pellets are conveyed from the feed [...]
The purpose of this scoping study is to understand the likely requirements of the service vessels needed to efficiently and sustainably operate and maintain offshore/high energy aquaculture farms and potential offshore/high energy multi-use platform operations in the future. Developing [...]
Aquaculture will increasingly require both routine and event-driven environmental monitoring. Autonomous systems will play an enabling role in these operations, fundamentally improving sustainability at existing sites and the assessment of new sites. The move to complex offshore environments envisaged [...]
This study will scan the literature for offshore/high energy fish pen designs. It will identify operating envelopes, failure modes and knowledge gaps, and present recommendations for future studies. It will also review the performance of existing inshore fish pens, [...]
There is an identified need to develop a Code of Practice (COP) specific to offshore aquaculture vessels for use in the growing blue economy sector. The National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV), existing rules and regulations of Australian Maritime [...]
With fish farming moving from onshore to offshore, a novel fish pen design is needed. The scoping study “Review of Fish Pen Designs and Mooring Systems” by C. M. Wang et al. (2020) provided an overview of current challenges [...]
Globally, as the aquaculture sector moves operations further offshore, the sector is encountering new challenges to access clean and reliable energy. Without shore-based power, energy-intensive offshore aquaculture operations such as feeding barges become reliant on diesel generators with many [...]
The mechanism for attaching fish farming nets to floating cages in the current inshore farming environment has been identified as a weak point of the structures in a high energy, offshore farming environment. This project will develop a new, [...]
Making offshore fish farms and renewable energy systems safe and financially viable means a step-change in the adoption of new technologies. One important class of technology is autonomous marine systems that can perform monitoring and intervention activities in a [...]
Towards Biofouling-free Aquaculture and Off-shore/High Energy Renewable Energy Generation: State-of-the-Art and R&D Priorities. Problem statement Biofouling is a notorious problem for the Blue Economy industry on a number of levels: Operation/maintenance: mitigating biofouling incurs large operational costs due to [...]
Multi-use (purpose) offshore/high energy platforms can be an appealing alternative to the traditional land reclamation technique in creating space on the sea for a wide range of offshore/high energy applications such as floating breakwaters, floating renewable energy installations (e.g., [...]
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