John Emeana
PhD entitled Impact of seabed properties on the ampacity and reliability of cables
Hi, I'm John Emeana and I studied within Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute at the University of Southampton.
I obtained an MSc in Oil & Gas Engineering from the University of Aberdeen prior to joining the University of Southampton in 2012 to undertake a PhD project on seismic sediment characterization and geological controls on the performance of sub-seafloor High Voltage (HV) cables.
This PhD project seeks to grow our understanding of the sub-seabed environment experienced by the life of a buried cable and leads to a considerable reduction in the risk inherent in the deployment of large scale high voltage interconnectors. The project is a cross-faculty/multi-disciplinary research, which involves the collaboration of researchers and scientists from the Ocean and Earth Science (OES) and Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) schools of the University of Southampton. The project aims are:
- Acquire, process and interpret high resolution seismic data; core logs; CPT and direct time series of thermal measurements.
- Interpret pre-installation data, to understand the spatial and temporal variability of key parameters such as: mineralogy, grain size distribution, bulk density, porosity, permeability, thermal conductivity, shear bed stress and erodibility.
- Interpret post-installation data, to understand the impact on these key physical parameters due to trenching and back fill as well as due to changing thermal regime along cable routes on the UK shelf.
Supervisors and affiliations:
Dr J. Dix (OES), Dr T. Henstock (OES), Dr C. Thompson (OES), Dr T. Gernon (OES) and Dr J. Pilgrim (ECS)