Project description
Innovative concept for safe deck space at sea
The ocean is important for supporting food sustainability and renewable energy. Innovative, flexible and scalable concepts can support fish- and seaweed farms and ocean energy (floating) wind turbines. The EU-funded Space at Sea project will develop a modular, scalable and flexible concept for multiuse platforms that provide safe and cost-effective deck space at sea. It will use standardised floaters with low production costs, each supporting a different function, including housing, renewable energy hubs, aquafarming, and logistics. By combining these floaters, specific islands can be formed, which will be used to validate and demonstrate various applications. The project will create an energy hub in the North Sea, aquaculture facilities in the Mediterranean, and a floating logistics hub in the Black Sea.
Objective
The Space@Sea project aims to develop multi-use platforms with the objective to develop safe and cost efficient deck space at sea. Due to the increasing population and scarce usable space on land, there is an increasing need for sustainable food and renewable energy from the ocean. In the future these will be supplied more and more by fish- and seaweed farms and ocean energy(floating) wind turbines. There are also geographical locations where additional housing or logistic hubs are needed. All these developments need a flexible and scalable concept that can support a multitude of activities at sea.
Space@Sea consists of a group of companies, research institutes and universities that will develop a modular concept for multi-use platforms. Standardised floaters that can be produced at low cost will form the basis. The approach will reduce the cost through standardisation in a similar way that containers reduced the cost of transport in the past.
Each floater can support a different function, such as: housing, renewable energy hub, aquafarming (seaweed, algae and fish farms) and logistics equipment. By combining the applications in different ways, Space@Sea will form islands according to the specifications for the location and function at hand. Three specific islands will be validated and demonstrated as part of Space@Sea: An energy hub in the North Sea, aquaculture in the Mediterranean and a floating logistics hub in the Black Sea.
To develop a safe and economically viable floating island, a floater need to be developed that can meet the requirements of the various applications and environmental conditions. At the same time these requirements will be brought together into a standardized design. Technology developments are required for the floater, the shared mooring system, coupling between the floaters and application specific developments.
The Space@Sea consortium aims to overcome these challenges for a sustainable and cost efficient development of our oceans.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheries
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesoceanography
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsnumerical analysis
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6708 PM Wageningen
Netherlands
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2629 JD Delft
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2629 JD DELFT
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47057 Duisburg
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47057 DUISBURG
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
2628 CN Delft
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1043 EJ AMSTERDAM
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1016 PM AMSTERDAM
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21073 Hamburg
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2132 LS Hoofddorp
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18055 Rostock
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01219 Dresden
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18439 STRALSUND
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6708 PB Wageningen
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45141 Essen
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8010 Graz
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2283JM RIJSWIJK
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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2613 BT Delft
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800025 GALATI
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7970 KOLVEREID
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2070 Zwijndrecht
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