Medium-Density Fiberboard (MDF) is made by breaking down of wood as conifer wood thinnings and wood processing industry residues including sawdust, which is glued and pressed together, and is widely used as a building material. Woody residues from production of MDF (MDFres) is a large and available ...

Biocarbon is a promising alternative to fossil reductants for decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing sustainability of the metallurgical industry. In comparison to conventional reductants (i.e., coke and coal), biocarbon has low density, poor mechanical strength and high reactivity. Dens...

A zero-dimensional mathematical model for downdraft gasification of biomass in fixed or slowly moving bed gasifiers was developed and implemented in Engineering Equation Solver (EES). The proposed model does not consider the gasification process as a black box, it takes into account the main gasific...

The isoconversional (or model-free) methods cannot provide meaningful kinetic description for most samples in thermal analysis. Nevertheless, they can serve as empirical models. A usable empirical model should describe well the observed data and should be suitable for predictions, too. For this purp...

The ZEB Lab project, coordinated by SINTEF and NTNU, aims at building a ZEB (Zero Emission Building) in Trondheim (Norway) in 2019, to be used both as office building and living laboratory. An innovative latent heat storage (LHS) unit using phase change material (PCM) will be integrated in the centr...