
Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Rouzbeh Abbassi, Ehsan Arzaghi, Fatemeh Salehi, Nagi Abdussamie
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 4 1 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 4 1 9 - 1
Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energies delves into the crucial aspects of risk and reliability, ensuring asset durability and long-term performance while foster… Read more
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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.
- Provides an in-depth understanding of fundamental principles and methodologies, along with best practice and practical insights
- Supports researchers to understand this multidisciplinary field and to contribute to further advances and improvements
- Equips industry professionals with guidance and tools to facilitate compliance, reduce risks, and ensure effective, sustainably operation
2: Regulatory Framework and Standards for Safety and Reliability of Offshore Renewable Energy Facilities
3. Environmental Impacts of Offshore Renewable Energy Systems and Supporting Operations
4. Risk Assessment and Management in Offshore Renewable Energy
5. Human Factors and Safety Culture in Offshore Renewable Energy
6. Optimizing Offshore Renewable Energy Infrastructure Plans
7. Asset Management and Maintenance Strategies for Offshore Renewable Industries
8. Decommissioning of Offshore Renewable Infrastructure
9. Advancing Offshore Wind Farm Reliability
10. Safe and Cost-effective Offshore Hydrogen Production, Storage and Transportation
11. Reliability of Offshore Wave and Tidal Energy Technologies
12. Developing Reliable Floating PV Systems
13. Safety and Risk in Multi-purpose and Co-located Offshore Facilities
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Rouzbeh Abbassi
Dr. Rouzbeh Abbassi is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, Australia and serves within the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Innovation and Transformation. With over 230 peer‑reviewed publications and multiple books authored and edited, Dr. Abbassi is recognized for his work in risk assessment, safety engineering, corrosion and failure analysis, Bayesian network modeling, and smart energy systems, including hydrogen, offshore wind, and wastewater-based energy recovery. He leads major national and international projects (e.g., BE‑CRC for hydrogen safety), holds editorial roles in top safety and environmental engineering journals, and frequently advises industry partners on offshore infrastructure resilience.
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Ehsan Arzaghi
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.
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Fatemeh Salehi
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.
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Nagi Abdussamie
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.