Professor Maurizio Collu

Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

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I am a Professor in Offshore Renewable Energy Engineering, and I joined the Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering Department of the University of Strathclyde in August 2018.

My area of expertise is applied mechanics, focusing on multidisciplinary, coupled model of dynamics of offshore renewable energy systems.

My research in the areas of analysis and design of floating offshore wind turbines and multi-purpose offshore structures is recognised as excellent at international level. I am also chair of the ITTC Ocean Renewable Energy committee (2021-24), member of the editorial board of the Ocean Engineering and Wind Energy Science journals, member of the scientific advisory committee in major international research projects and several offshore engineering conferences.

I have directly managed ~4.5M£ of public research funding, in projects for a total value of ~28.5M£, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK (EPSRC), Natural Environment Research Council UK (NERC), Newton funds UK, Innovate UK, Royal Society (UK), EETF (Scottish Government), ORE Catapult (UK), Energy FP7 and H2020 (EU).

I have also been working closely with the private sector, with companies ranging from small start-ups to large multinational energy companies. Some examples are:

  • Concept selection and preliminary design of floating support structures for offshore wind turbine farms for offshore wind developers.

  • Design support tool for innovative offshore wind turbine configurations, developing dedicated, advanced aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupled model of dynamics.

  • Due diligence review of novel floating wind turbine support structure designs.

  • Technical feasibility assessment of floating offshore wind turbine configuration with hydrogen production and storage facilities.

Selected list of publicly funded research projects (last years):

  • Co-Investigator and Work Package leader in the 5 years (2021-2026), ~10M£ EPSRC project Ocean RE-Fuel (https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/W005212/1), leading the analysis and design of a floating wind turbine producing hydrogen in the offshore environment.
  • Work Package leader in the 3.5 years (2018-2021), € 10m EU H2020 project “The Blue Growth Farm” (http://www.thebluegrowthfarm.eu/) (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/216067_en.html), focusing on the development and demonstration of a multi-functional platform for open sea farm installations of the Blue Growth Industry. I was in the development of a multidisciplinary, coupled model of dynamics of this multi-purpose platform.

  • Principal Investigator of one of the five EPSRC/Newton funds Joint UK-China Offshore Renewable Energy flagship projects, the 3 years (2017-20), £ 0.8m project INNO-MPP  (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/R007497/1), focusing on the development of multi-purpose offshore platforms for the sustainable development of small/isolated communities, exploiting the synergies among offshore renewable energy and aquaculture industries.

  • Co-Investigator and Work Package leader in the 3 years (2017-20), 3 m£ EPSRC project HOME-Offshore (http://homeoffshore.org/), which focuses on merging Artificial Intelligence, Robotic inspection and Advanced Physics Modelling to lower the cost of offshore wind farm maintenance. My task focused on developing advanced model of dynamics for wind turbines.

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Publications

Design considerations and preliminary hydrodynamic analysis of an offshore decentralised floating wind-hydrogen system
Rodríguez Castillo Claudio A, Collu Maurizio, Brennan Feargal
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Vol 89, pp. 496-506 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.09.340
The impact of LIDAR‐assisted pitch control on floating offshore wind operational expenditure
Russell Andrew J, McMorland Jade, Collu Maurizio, McDonald Alasdair S, Thies Philipp R, Keane Aidan, Quayle Alexander R, McMillan David, Carroll James, Coraddu Andrea
Wind Energy Vol 27, pp. 1450-1461 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2951
A dynamic simulation-based methodology for systematic assessment of workability on floating wind turbines
Lange Johannes, Heine Snedker Thor, Collu Maurizio, Bayati Ilmas
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 2875 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2875/1/012021
Time-domain fatigue reliability analysis for floating offshore wind turbine substructures using coupled nonlinear aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulations
Zhu Fengshen, Yeter Baran, Brennan Feargal, Collu Maurizio
Engineering Structures Vol 318 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.118759
TOPSIS methodology applied to floating offshore wind to rank platform designs for the Scotwind sites
Sykes Victoria, Collu Maurizio, Coraddu Andrea
Ocean Engineering Vol 310 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.118634
Wave induced vibration energy harvesting
Njeri Jane Nyokabi, Collu Maurizio, Coraddu Andrea, Cammarano Andrea
OCEANS 2024 - Singapore OCEANS 2024 Singapore (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1109/oceans51537.2024.10682387

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Professional Activities

SINTEF Ocean (External organisation)
Advisor
1/11/2021
9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering
Participant
2/6/2021
Final UK China Joint Offshore Renewable Energy Conference
Chair
8/12/2020

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Projects

COLLU_OSI_ATLP_DLC12
Collu, Maurizio (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Dai, David (Co-investigator) Li, Shen (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator)
10-Jan-2024 - 28-Jan-2025
Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: development of a multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimisation framework
Collu, Maurizio (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
CONCEPT SELECTION AND PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF A OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE FLOATING SUBSTRUCTURE FOR THE EUREKA OFFSHORE WIND FARM
Collu, Maurizio (Principal Investigator)
29-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024
Hyfloat EEFT Stream I
Collu, Maurizio (Principal Investigator) Dai, David (Research Co-investigator)
24-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
T-omega: follow up test
Dai, David (Principal Investigator) Black, Steven (Co-investigator) Collu, Maurizio (Co-investigator) Zhao, Guangwei (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
Oil States Industries ATLP review and analysis
Collu, Maurizio (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator) Dai, David (Co-investigator) Mehmanparast, Ali (Co-investigator)
16-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023

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Professor Maurizio Collu
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering

Email: maurizio.collu@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3312