International reach: Coppe participates in global Offshore events and MoU signing in Asia
Planeta COPPE / Blue Economy / Energy / Low Carbon / Ocean Engineering / News
Date: 04/07/2024
The month of June was marked by Coppe’s participation in two events that reunited, in Asia, the main international names on the offshore market.
From June 9th to the 14th, a committee of professors and researchers from different programs at Coppe/UFRJ were present at the 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering (OMAE), held in Singapore.
The professors present were Jean-David Caprace; Marcelo Igor; Milad Shadman; Murilo Vaz; and Segen Estefen; Theodoro Antoun (all from the Marine Engineering Program) and Luís Sagrilo, from the Civil Engineering Program. The conference, organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), brought strong bias towards sustainability and energy transition, and Coppe’s researchers did presentations on sustainable decommissioning, offshore power generation, blue economy, carbon capture and storage, pipelines and offshore asset corrosion.
On the 17th and the 18th, professors Jean-David Caprace; Milad Shadman; Murilo Vaz; and Segen Estefen participated in the 3rd China-Brazil Forum on Offshore Technology, held in Shenzhen (China). The professors addressed the research and development works of the Ocean Structures Core Laboratory (NEO), the Simulation Laboratory of Shipbuilding Processes (Labsen), the Offshore Renewable Energies Group (GERO) and the National Institute for Oceanic Research (Inpo).
At the forum, professor Jean-David Caprace presented papers on the role of machine learning in the monitoring of asset corrosion in the offshore industry and on incorporating uncertainties into subsea pipeline decommissioning.
Furthermore, Coppe signed on June 28th a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the China-Latin America and Caribbean Technology Transfer Center (CLTTC). The agreement has a three year long duration and foresees joint activities, like training sessions, conferences, forums, symposia and research projects in several areas, in order to promote the exchange and diffusion of technological innovation.
