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SINTEF supports AI-driven design in EU's most ambitious battery research project

01 July 2020

EU invests €20 million to accelerate the development of the next generation of high performance and sustainable batteries.

New research and innovation center to provide climate-friendly value creation on the Norwegian continental shelf

23 June 2020

The Board of the Research Council of Norway decided on June 11 to grant SFI Swipa (Subsurface Well Integrity, Plugging and Abandonment) status as Center for Research-Driven Innovation for the next eight years.

We want to be a driver for the transformation of Norway

12 June 2020

“This is a major and important boost for Norway. The SFI centres aim to create the business and industry of the future. NTNU and SINTEF want to be a driver for the major transformation that the nation is facing,” say NTNU’s Rector Anne Borg and Alexandra Bech Gjørv, President and CEO of SINTEF.
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Wave Energy: The Standardisation of the Industry

07 July 2020

This is a guest article from K2 Management‘s Pauline Laporte Weywada, a participant in the MegaRoller project. The world’s oceans hold vast potential…

Numerical Fluid Mechanics: CFD Made Simple

06 July 2020

Fluid mechanics is a branch of physics that describes the movements and behaviours of liquids and gases (fluids). There is a set of…

TCCS-11 The 11th Trondheim Conference on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage

02 July 2020

The Trondheim CCS Conference is a world leading scientific CCS technology conference, gathering more than 400 CCS-experts from all over the globe every…
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Dynamic analysis of potentially critical contingencies (project memo no. AN 20.12.11)

https://www.sintef.no/en/publications/publication/?pubid=CRIStin+1818875

This project memo documents work carried out on investigating the importance of using dynamic analysis to analyse contingencies that could potentially result in high-impact low-probability (HILP) events. It takes as a starting point a set of potentially critical contingencies in a four-area test net...

Authors Jakobsen Sigurd Hofsmo Sperstad Iver Bakken Solvang Espen Hafstad
Year 2020
Type Report/thesis
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Handling of uncertainties related to high-impact low-probability events in power systems (project memo no. AN 19.12.13)

https://www.sintef.no/en/publications/publication/?pubid=CRIStin+1818874

This project memo describes and illustrates methods for handling uncertainty related to extraordinary or high-impact low-probability (HILP) events in power systems. It documents some of the work carried out in the project “Analysis of extraordinary events in power systems” (the HILP project), within...

Authors Sperstad Iver Bakken
Year 2019
Type Report/thesis