Organisation/Company: UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
Research Field: Engineering
Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)
Country: United Kingdom
Application Deadline: 25 Feb 2025 - 00:00 (UTC)
Type of Contract: Other
Job Status: Full-time
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
Salary range: £36,924 - £45,163
FTE: 1.0
Term: Fixed 24 months
Closing date: 25 February 2025
Specific Skills
The role involves advanced structural design and analysis of offshore renewable energy devices, particularly applied to offshore wind and hydrogen infrastructure structural integrity. Responsibilities include using structural analysis specialist software (e.g., ABAQUS or similar), risk and structural reliability analysis, optimization, Non-Destructive Evaluation, and Structural Health Monitoring.
Context
The Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering of the University of Strathclyde is currently leading an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)-funded project, the research flagship programme called “Ocean REFuel.” The Ocean-REFuel project brings together a multidisciplinary, world-leading team of researchers from 5 UK universities to design, analyse, and optimise a whole-energy system to maximise ocean renewable energy (Offshore Wind and Marine Renewable Energy) potential for conversion to zero carbon fuels, focusing on hydrogen.
The project addresses significant questions concerning our energy future:
* How to maximise ocean energy potential in a safe, affordable, sustainable and environmentally sensitive manner?
* How to alleviate the intermittency of the ocean renewable energy resource?
* How ocean renewable energy can support renewable heat, industrial and transport demands through vectors other than electricity?
* How ocean renewable energy can support local, national, and international whole energy systems?
Ocean-REFuel is a large project integrating upstream, transportation, and storage to end-use cases, which will over an extended period address these questions innovatively, developing an understanding of the multiple criteria involved and their interactions.
We are looking for a Research Associate to be integrated into the team working on work package 1, which focuses on the upstream processes in the offshore environment, from extracting the renewable energy source and converting it to electricity, to the conversion of electricity into hydrogen, to its storage and transportation to shore. The main research areas are:
* Offshore structures: design, analysis, and optimisation of a decentralised floating offshore wind turbine equipped with electrolysers.
* Offshore structures: feasibility assessment, design, and optimisation of an offshore hydrogen storage/buffering system.
* Assessment and analysis of the best option to transport the hydrogen to shore.
The core of the methodology is based on the development of a Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis, and Optimisation (MDAO) framework for these innovative offshore platforms, considering the main techno-economic objectives and constraints when designing an offshore renewable energy device, while also addressing the cross-cutting social and environmental aspects, fed by the results of other work packages. From a technical point of view, the focus is on an aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupled model of dynamics for the design and analysis of floating offshore wind turbines.
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