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This technology will transform you into Superman

07 November 2019

Imagine yourself putting on a suit of extra muscles, seeing with super vision and inspired with new skills – with sensors making sure that you don’t overextend yourself. This is the idea behind the project called “HuMan”, which has recently delivered what looks like pure sci-fi technology to partners including an Airbus factory.

Transportation for the 21st Century

05 November 2019

What will the future transport system look like? SINTEF will contribute to answering this, through participation in the government-designated strategy process Transport21.

Hydrogen plant will make the “whisky island” Myken self-sufficient in electricity

24 October 2019

If this solar and wind-based hydrogen project succeeds, it may become a model for many thousands of other small island communities worldwide.
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SINTEF builds a new Hele-Shaw cell to understand two-phase flow in natural fractures

06 November 2019

SINTEF has built a new Hele-Shaw cell to study two-phase flow in natural fractures in geological formations. The cell built at SINTEF is…

CO2 impurities: What else is there in CO2 except CO2?

06 November 2019

In the IMPACTS project we study the impact of impurities in captured CO2 on transport and storage. Questions we would like to answer…

Consumet: Constructor of surrogate models and metamodels

04 November 2019

Consumet is a program which allows the fitting of reduced order models/surrogate models/meta models. But what exactly are these surrogate models, what are…
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Oda crude oil – Weathering Properties and behaviour at sea - In relation to oil spill response - 2019:01159 A

https://www.sintef.no/en/publications/publication/?pubid=CRIStin+1744174

A weathering study including dispersibility has been conducted on Oda crude oil. This study included a standardized small-scale laboratory testing and a meso-scale flume experiment at 13 °C. The SINTEF Oil Weathering Model (OWM) was used to predict the weathering properties of Oda crude oil if ...

Authors Sørheim Kristin Rist Johnsen Marius Bakken Oddveig Merethe Hellstrøm Kaja Cecilie
Year 2019
Type Report/thesis