Project

An CETPartnership project with the aim to enhance shared mooring system design for floating offshore wind farms.

Abstract:
The worldwide climate change is caused by the increased greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration in the atmosphere. To achevie the Paris Agreements 1.5 °C pathway the GHG carbon dioixde (CO2) must be reduced. Therefore according to the UN’s Climate Panel IPCC, a crucial tool to achieving the Paris Agreement is Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) which would be challenging to achieve without. CCUS is a technology where the CO2 emissions are reduced by capturing the CO2 and storing it in a geological site or utilising it for green fuel production. However, the CO2 cannot be stored or utilised if there is no connection between the capture site and the storage or utilisation site. Three primary forms of transportation are by trucks, ships or through pipelines. Pipeline transportation is the main way of transporting CO2. However, impurities like H2O, H2S, NOx, and SOx can compromise the transportation and cause corrosion or scaling, leading to huge economic costs, underlining the need for proper pipeline material selection and monitoring of these impurities. Furthermore, it is desired to limit the need for purification of the CO2 without having the risk of corrosion, becoming a cost balance between material and purification cost.
This PhD project will study the material integrity of the Carbon Capture Storage transportation infrastructure, focusing on the impurities and their negative impacts on the transportation infrastructure. Additionally, measure corrosion and monitor the impurities inside the CO2 transport pipeline.

When it comes to climate change, it will become more frequent and stronger every year. Cities and rural areas on both sides of the border need to adapt to both more rain and rising sea levels on our coasts, but also to the fact that rain may not occur for longer periods, resulting in a high drought index.

ClimatePol's focus is to make us more aware of existing structures and create alliances and cooperation across the border, so that we engage both cities, regions and all other actors who can contribute to climate adaptation measures at all levels and across the border.

The project is funded by Interreg Deutschland-Denmark and the European Union and runs from 2024-2027.

The region of Southern Denmark has had a long historical tradition for a strong involvement in the maritime sector, but the region has for the last 50 years been especially known for its deep involvement in the offshore sector, with Esbjerg as a key location in Northern Europe. The sector is now well-established and continues to grow, currently undertaking a radical transformation. This development is influenced by different factors, including an increase in offshore oil and gas decommissioning, as well as the rapidly growing offshore wind farms and plans for building large energy islands. These islands will serve as electro fuel production and bunkering facilities but will also become hubs that facilitate better connections between the energy generated from offshore wind constructions and the zero emission energy systems ashore. These developments all lead to important challenges and opportunities for the maritime sector. For instance, a strong focus on the maritime offshore sector is essential to realize the plans for developing the energy offshore sector and the connected goals for costs, efficiency, sustainability, performance etc. in all stages of the life cycle, from design, construction, operation, and maintenance to the final decommissioning. The maritime offshore activities will therefore be essential for reaching the United Nations (UN) 2030 and 2050 climate targets. The idea of the project is to investigate multiple aspects of this transition.
The project portfolio consists of six interconnected work packages (WP 1-6) that serve as part of a holistic collaboration platform that will significantly energize the maritime research at SDU. The topics are interdisci-plinary and cover a wide range of maritime disciplines, such as:

• Sustainability, safety, and risks
• Energy efficiency, maintenance, propulsion technologies and fuels
• Business history
• Business and Logistics
• Regulation
• Human factors, health, socio-economic issues
• Naval architecture and maritime operations

All work packages, though separate in their research focus, are interconnected and important to the project, as the breadth and interdisciplinarity of the initiative is what makes it unique in a Danish context.

The project aims to facilitate the transition from fossil fuels to greener energy sources in Danish ferry shipping. The new and rebuilt ferries have, among other things, increased automation and innovative changes, which change the roles of crew members and require different skills.
A tailored method for job requirement analysis will be developed, with the Molslinjen as
a test platform, to identify competence gaps and optimize the distribution of tasks between people and technology.
The goal is to strengthen the ability of crews to handle the increased complexity of modern shipping and promote efficiency in the industry.

The decision to build the world's first two offshore energy islands (or hubs) is a cornerstone in reaching Denmark's climate targets and a beginning of a new era for green Danish technology export. With an estimated value of DKK 210bn, the offshore energy islands will create significant business opportunities for Danish stakeholders. In the Offshore Energy Hubs (OEH) project we develop technical solutions for:
a) tools and control solutions for stable and resilient hub operation,
b) cost-efficient design of wind power plants (WPPs) and
c) hub-optimized offshore Power-to-X (PtX).

The value creation of the OEH solutions is both direct and indirect. The developed solutions will reduce capital costs by DKK 20bn just for the first 10 GW islands, and, most importantly, will enable a future-proof expansion of the energy islands. This opens up immense global market opportunities for the technologies developed by the top Danish industry, who are partners to this project. Therefore, the technical solutions developed in the OEH project contribute to ensuring the profitability of the OEH, while also ensuring the stability of the hub and the connected power systems.

The OEH's execution ensures timely contributions to the partners' strategy and roadmaps. OEH will deliver a framework for Bornholm as a large-scale development and demonstration center for offshore energy island technology, supporting Danish industry in maintaining its first-mover position.

To further develop existing theoretical understanding on the concept of sustainable biomass with GHG neutrality when applied with a holistic integration across sectors

To coordinate the use of novel solutions to negative emissions (carbon storage solutions) across different sectors based on carbon captured in biomass, from point source emissions, and directly from the atmosphere

To develop crosscutting society system analysis methodologies, tools, and models allowing for an overarching holistic co-optimization of the carbon balance across all sectors of agriculture, forestry, energy, transport, industry, buildings, waste management, and materials

To use these models on the assessment and development of a sustainable co-optimized carbon management strategy for green fuels in the green transition of Denmark

To create an understanding of sustainable biomass availability and of the holistic carbon balance of a net zero society on the global scale to reveal the techno-economic feasibility of solutions, models and system designs and their scalability and applicability as models for a global climate solution.

SDU Maritime research platform is an interdisciplinary research platform with researcher from four different faculties at SDU (Health, Humanities, Social Science and Engineering). The work is related to research in the maritime part of the offshore sector. The topics cover a wide range of disciplines as e.g., sustainability, safety, risk, human factors, history, logistics, business, regulation, naval architecture, energy, and maritime operations.

“Green Transitions in Port of Aalborg” is a collaboration between the Port of Aalborg and Aalborg University Business School. Both organizations share from different angles—practice and research—the interest in green transitions; that is, how business operations and strategies can be designed such that they ensure an ecologically sustainable economy. As business operations vary widely, this strategic initiative comprises three main foci, looking at business operations within the port, at how the port interacts with its external environment, and at the port as one player in the broader regional environment (i.e., Greater Aalborg), always through the lens of identifying and solving problems in relation to green transitions.

The shipping industry is responsible for around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and this is expected to increase as global trade and shipping activity continues to grow. As such, reducing emissions from shipping is an important part of global efforts to tackle climate change.