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| Title | Repurposing decommissioned oil and gas flowlines to dynamically installed anchors for harnessing marine renewable energies and removing ocean plastics |
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| Keywords | Decommissioning offshore oil and gas infrastructure, Repurposing decommissioned structures |
| Project description | 1700 km subsea oil and gas flowlines will be decommissioned in Australia over the next five decades, posing a waste management challenge as there is limited capacity to process these materials in Australia, and legal restriction to ship abroad. This project will repurpose decommissioned flowlines to novel shaped dynamically installed anchors through rigorous hydrodynamic and geotechnical numerical analyses; and O-tube, centrifuge and field testing. The anchors will be applicable to moor floating wind turbines, wave energy devices, solar panels, oil and gas platforms, aquaculture facilities, and plastic collection barriers. This Fellowship will provide me with a great opportunity to be trained at Woodside and to widen collaborations. |
| Opportunity status | Open |
| Open date | 11 Jul 2024 |
| Contact | Professor Muhammad Shazzad Hossain ARC Future Fellow |
| Specific project requirement | MEng in Geotechnical Engineering, or Structural Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering with a WAM/CGPA of > 80% |
| Course type | Doctorates |
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