Dr Marcin Kapitaniak

Funding and Grants

As Principal Investigator:

1. Kapitaniak, M., Terrero Gonzalez, A., Olatunde, M. & Neilson, R., ORE Catapult, Floating offshore wind major component exchange, Project value £51,453, Project duration: December 2024 – March 2026.
2. Kapitaniak, M. & Olatunde, M., Interface, Virtual prototyping of safe anchorage areas for floating wind applications, Project value £7,497, Project duration: January 2025 – March 2025.
3. Kapitaniak, M. & Terrero Gonzalez, A., Interface, Virtual Prototyping Of A New Spar-type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine, Project value £7,496, Project duration: September 2024 – November 2024.
4. Kapitaniak, M., Stone, M., Olatunde, M. & Neilson, R., CNR International UK Ltd, Novel methods for topside removal: Phase 1 Feasibility Study, Project value £8,109, Project duration: April 2024 – June 2024.
5. Kapitaniak, M. & Terrero Gonzalez, A., EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub, Maximising potential of shallow ports for floating offshore wind deployment, Project value £49,992, Project duration: March 2024 – February 2025.
6. Kapitaniak, M., Terrero Gonzalez, A. & Neilson, R.,  Dublin Offshore, Floating Wind Mooring Lines Load Reduction Device: Modelling and Optimisation, Project value £36,902, Project duration: 19th June 2023 – 15th October 2023.
7. Kapitaniak, M. & Vaziri, V., Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Simulations of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Project value £65,664, Project duration: 1st October 2023 – 30th September 2026.
8. Kapitaniak, M. & Terrero Gonzalez, A., Interface, Virtual Prototyping of a Novel Vertical Wind Turbine Concept, Project value £4,978, Project duration: 1st June 2023 – 30th July 2023.
9. Kapitaniak, M. & Terrero Gonzalez, A., Interface, Simulations of Offshore Vessel Charging System, Project value £4,978, Project duration: 1st June 2023 – 30th July 2023.
10. Kapitaniak, M., Martinez, R. & Neilson, R., T-Omega Wind Ltd., T-Omega Wind: Floating Wind Towing & Maintenance Feasibility Studies, Project value £7,804, Project duration: 1st May – 30th June 2022.
11. Kapitaniak, M., Costa, D. & Vaziri, V., iVDynamics Ltd., Resonance Enhanced Scale Milling Technology, Project value £58,525, Project duration: 1st June 2022 – 31st August 2023.
12. Kapitaniak, M. & Neilson, R., Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Floating Wind: Optimisation, De-risking & Development, Project value £90,000, Project duration: 1st March 2022 – 28th February 2026.
13. Kapitaniak, M., Martinez, R. & Arnau, S., Energy Technology Partnership, ETP KEN: Optimization Of Towing Configuration For Floating Wind Farm Anchors, Project value £9,480, Project duration: 15th January – 15th April 2022.
14. Kapitaniak, M. & Neilson, R., Skua Marine Ltd., C-DART System Simulation, Project value £ 6,715, Project duration: 1st February 2022 – 28st February 2022.
15. Kapitaniak, M. & Neilson, R., EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub, Cost Effective Methods of Installing Offshore Wind Infrastructure, Project value £ 99,935, Project duration: 1st June 2021 – 31st July 2022.

As Co-Investigator:

1. Martinez-Felipe, A., Kartal, M., Siddiq, A., Sharifi, A., Kapitaniak, M., Underhill, J., Varnagiris, S. & Urbonavičiusz, M., UK-HyRES (UKRI), MHYSTIC: New Materials and methods for HYdrogen transportation and STorage: repurposing the eConomy future of the North Sea, Project value £ 232,478, Project duration:  January 2025 – July 2027.
2. Cauvin, S., Gormley, K., Stone, M., Kapitaniak, M. & Neilson, R., Chevron, Visualisation of Chevron Angola assets and potential reefing sites, Project value £32,900, Project duration: August 2024 – November 2024.
3. Sriramula, S. & Kapitaniak, M., Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Risk based inspection and management of offshore pipelines for energy transition, Project value £65,064, Project duration: February 2024 – January 2027.
4. Neilson, R., Stone, M., Kapitaniak, M., Maheri, A., Martinez-Felipe, A., Sriramula, S., Vaziri, V., Hastings, A., Gormley, K., Sripada, G., Leontidis, G., Paterson, J. & Kemp, A., Net Zero Technology Centre, Data for Net Zero, Project value: £992,000, Project duration: 1st June 2022-31st May 2025.
5. Neilson, R., Kapitaniak, M. & Vanconcelos, W., National Decommissioning Centre, Decommissioning Management in Subsea Energy Transition and Integration (PhD project for student Yasser Hegy), Project value £9,300, Project duration: 3.5 years from 17th March 2021.
6. Vaziri, V., Kapitaniak, M. & Starkey, A., READ Cased Hole, Applying AI techniques to well integrity logging data (Phase 3), Project value £ 298,865.00, Project duration: 1st February 2021 – 31st January 2023.
7. Vaziri, V. & Kapitaniak, M., iVDynamics Ltd., Advanced shock tool, Project value: £ 80,665, Project duration: 1st September 2020 – 28th February 2022.
8. Vaziri, V., Kapitaniak, M. & Starkey, A., READ Cased Hole, Applying AI techniques to well integrity logging data (Phase 2), Project value £15,000, Project duration: 1st June – 31st August 2020.
9. Wiercigroch, M., Vaziri, V. & Kapitaniak, M., Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC)/Welltec, Design and Test of Resonance Enhanced Scale Milling for Hard Scales (Phase 2), Project value: £402,579, Project duration: 1st July 2019 – 30th June 2020.
10. Wiercigroch, M., Starkey, A., Vaziri, V. & Kapitaniak, M., Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC)/READ Cased Hole, Applying AI techniques to well integrity logging data, Project value: £166,737, Project duration: 1st July 2019 – 28th February 2020.
11. Wiercigroch, M., Kapitaniak, M. & Vaziri, V., Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC)/VBPR, Experimental Testing of RED Technology for Coring Bit Applications, Project value: £31,854, Project duration: 1st November 2018 – 28th February 2019.
12. Wiercigroch, M., Kapitaniak, M. & Vaziri, V., Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC)/Varel, Drilling: Hybrid Drill-Bits With Shearing and Gouging (PHASE 2), Project value: £395,567, Project duration: 15th June 2018 – 28th February 2020.