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NTNU will lead European sustainability project

13 September 2019

Through the Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods (FME ZEN) in Smart Cities, NTNU has received funding from the EU to research sustainable plus energy neighbourhoods in Europe. SINTEF and OBOS are partners.

Changing the food processing industry

11 September 2019

The iProcess project for a more sustainable food production and to reduce the amount of the climate emissions, the flexible robotic automation technology will enable to increase raw material utilization, reduce food loss and waste, and to cope with biological variation of raw material from fish to wheat.

C-capture to work with SINTEF in Norway to validate its carbon capture technology

04 September 2019

C-Capture, the designer of world-leading and innovative chemical processes for carbon dioxide removal, is to work with Norway’s SINTEF on a new phase of its research and development programme.
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The Potential for Hydrogen in Europe

13 September 2019

This spring, SINTEF and IFP Energies nouvelles has assessed the current knowledge on the potential for hydrogen in Europe. The key question of…

Keeping solar and wind energy stored in the battery: What is the value?

09 September 2019

Co-author: Magnus Korpås, Professor, NTNU It is expected that operation and planning of electricity distribution systems is going to make more use of…

ELEGANCY: From Helmholtz-type Equations of State to Legal Conditions

05 September 2019

ELEGANCY is an ACT (Accelerating CCS Technologies) project with Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK as participating countries, and even project…
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Spreading and potential effects of marine fuel oil spills in the Arctic - Arcticfuels

https://www.sintef.no/en/publications/publication/?pubid=CRIStin+1723113

In the ARCTICFUELS project we studied the effects of dissolved fractions of three fuel oils (MGO500, MGO1000 and IFO-LS) on developing cod embryo and larvae. Of the Three fuel oils tested, the MGO1000 displayed the highest toxicity when comparing toxicity based on dilution (% of initial water accomm...

Authors Hansen Bjørn Henrik Farkas Julia Kvæstad Bjarne Daling Per Snorre Faksness Liv Guri Skancke Jørgen
Year 2019
Type Report/thesis