Design and evaluation of a sustainable entropy-weighted and VIKOR-based method for offshore oil collecting

With the expansion of marine oil exploitation, offshore oil leakage has become an urgent problem that cannot be ignored in marine ecological protection. To address the problem, this paper proposes a comprehensive design and evaluation approach aiming at the design of offshore oil collection. This approach combines the entropy weight and VIKOR method with three principles of sustainable design. Specifically, to establish the evaluation model, this paper transforms these principles of sustainability into three aspects of practicality, economy, and environmental protection, thus constructing a multi-level evaluation index system. Subsequently, entropy weights are then used to decline the one's own element in the decision maker's weights. Besides this, the VIKOR method is applied to acquire the optimal ranking of design alternatives for offshore oil collection to choose the optimal product design strategy. According to the obtained experimental results, the proposed design method combining the entropy weight and the VIKOR method is feasible and reasonable. To be exact, it improves the comprehensive index of the product in the design concept stage by over 20%, and it effectively optimizes the resource allocation of the design process.