Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies

Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies delves into the crucial aspects of risk and reliability, ensuring asset durability and long-term performance while fostering safe operations in the challenging offshore renewable energy systems context. The book starts with an overview of offshore renewable energy systems, followed by a detailed examination of regulatory standards for safety and reliability, environmental impacts, risk assessment and management, human factors, safety culture, infrastructure optimization, asset management, maintenance, and decommissioning. The book further explores reliability and safety in specific areas such as wind farms, offshore hydrogen, wave and tidal energy, and floating PV systems.

It also addresses safety and risk in multi-purpose and co-located offshore facilities, bridging the gap between industry and academia. This comprehensive resource is invaluable for researchers, students, engineers, consultants, industry professionals, and policy makers involved in offshore renewable energy.

About the author

Dr. Rouzbeh Abbassi is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research at the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia. After completing his PhD from Memorial University (Canada) in 2010, he held postdoctoral fellow positions at Memorial University and Princeton University (USA), before serving as a senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania (Australia). Dr. Abbassi is founder and former discipline leader for the Bachelor of Civil Engineering program at Macquarie University. He is internationally recognized for his research in risk and safety engineering and its application to diverse energy operations, authoring over 200 papers in this field, with over 8,000 citations, and holds editorial roles with various journals. Throughout his career, he has led and contributed to various industry-based projects and notably spearheads Macquarie University's involvement in the $329M BlueEconomy CRC, which focuses on offshore renewable energy and aquaculture facilities.
Dr. Ehsan Arzaghi is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Queensland University of Technology, in Australia. Upon completing his PhD at the University of Tasmania in 2018, he held postdoctoral research fellow positions at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and Queensland University of Technology, where he conducted research in risk and reliability engineering within offshore renewable energy applications. He is currently leading a multidisciplinary research team consisting of 7 PhDs and postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Arzaghi’s main interest lies in developing new methods and tools for reliability assessment, risk analysis and decision-making of offshore renewable energy assets and operations, and he currently has over 40 publications in high quality journals and conferences with over 1,000 citations. He is strongly engaged with the Australian Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre, which aims to generate knowledge and technologies to harness energy from renewable resources and support sustainable development of civil infrastructure in the offshore environment.
Dr. Fatemeh Salehi is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Academic Lead, Sustainability in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, at Macquarie University, Australia. Her team aims to develop physical and data-driven models for computational fluid dynamic simulations of turbulent flows to advance clean energy technologies, and she is particularly interested in heat and mass transfer modelling, optimization, energy efficiency, and application of clean fuels. Dr. Salehi’s research was recognized in the NSW Government’s Hydrogen Strategy (2021) and she has over 100 papers to date. She is a member of the Combustion Institute (ANZ), the Australian National Computational Merit Allocation Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board of Blue Economy Corporative Research Centre (CRC), and Working Groups of Standards Australia for the development of hydrogen standards, and program leader of the Enabling Research Program of Scaling Green Hydrogen CRC bid. She has received several prestigious awards for her work.
Dr. Nagi Abdussamie is an Assistant Professor in Marine Engineering at the University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) in Qatar. He is a globally recognized researcher with expertise spanning academia and industry. In over five years in industry, Dr. Abdussamie made significant contributions to shipping companies and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), playing a key role in establishing UDST's innovative Marine Engineering program. He has held several academic roles, notably as Deputy Program Leader of Offshore Engineering & Technology at the Blue Economy Cooperative-Research Centre (2019-2023), spearheading sustainable offshore aquaculture and renewable energy initiatives. Dr. Abdussamie is currently a member of the International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) Specialist Committee V.4 Offshore Renewable Energy. His research interests span offshore renewable energy structures, Computational Fluid Dynamics, wave-induced loads, and risk assessment. Dr. Abdussamie has supervised over 40 students and contributed over 50 articles to high-impact journals.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rouzbeh Abbassi (Editor), Nagi Abdussamie (Editor), Ehsan Arzaghi (Editor), Fatemeh Salehi (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Release: 01.11.2025
• EAN: 9780443334184
• ISBN: 978-0-443-33418-4
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General, SCIENCE / Energy, Energy technology & engineering, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Energy technology and engineering