Offshore platforms have had diverse applications in the marine industry, for example, oil or gas platforms can provide facilities to store the oil and gas before transport those to refineries. Offshore wind turbines are another well-known use of the offshore platform for generating power. As platforms encounter various strong forces from water and wind currents, the materials used for these structures are mainly steel or concrete. These platforms are classified into different types, according to the depth of water and their applications. In addition, offshore platforms, as artificial reefs may be used for decades at different marine conditions. Consequently, their design and maintenance are very important, otherwise, they can cause irreparable damage to the environment. This paper presents the latest and most significant design and monitoring methods, such as the optimal probabilistic seismic demand model, multi-objective optimization, dynamic response assessment, robust fault-tolerant control, etc., under different environmental and geographical conditions. Moreover, the effective factors on the life and failure of these offshore structures are comprehensively introduced to enhance awareness of them, which can be very helpful to improve the design and construction of more reliable and durable structures.

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Herein, optimal configuration and microgrid's energy control based on day-ahead planning is proposed. For this purpose, fossil fuel resources are equipped with carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies, and INVELOX turbines are proposed in microgrid's planning. The microgrid's overall contamination and cost are considered as objective functions. To encourage the consumers to utilize renewable resources, obtained profit from CCUS is assigned as incentive programs for buying their extra energy. Also, the problem is modeled as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), and the epsilon constraint and fuzzy satisfying approach are utilized to tackle and accomplish the best and optimal solution. The outcomes show that overall costs and contamination are

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