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SINTEF Industry Sustainable Energy

RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

The transformation of the fossil-based energy sector with large greenhouse gas emission to clean energy is one of the greater global challenges. Our research area in sustainable energy covers technology within CCS, renewables, energy storage, hydrogen and fuel cells. The applied and innovation-driven research aim at making CCS and renewable technologies and energy systems reliable and affordable.

Rune Bredesen
Research Director
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Expertise

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Aerodynamic analysis of wind turbines and windfarms

Battery Materials Characterization

Battery materials development

Biorefinery

Business economics

Ceramic materials

Characterization of silicon for solar cells and microelectronics

Chemical engineering unit operations and process plants

Circular value chain optimisation

CO2 capture – Absorption Processes

CO2 capture and transport

CO2 capture using solid adsorbents at low temperatures

CO2 capture with membranes

CO2-capture: Process modelling and simulation

Data science

Decision support systems

Electrolysis

Fuel cells

Hydrogen purification by adsorption processes

Hydrogen technology and energy storage

Inorganic membranes, membrane modules and membrane reactors

Light harvesting and alternative solar technologies

Li-ion batteries

Materials for wind energy

Metal-air batteries

Modelling of sustainable energy systems

Multiscale Electrochemical Modelling

Optimization

Porous Materials

Renewable energy

Silicon

Silicon wafer sawing

Smart Cities ICT

Smart energy management ICT

Solar cells

Solidification of Silicon for Solar Cells

Sustainability assessment

Synthesis and characterization of inorganic powder materials

Synthesis of inorganic materials

Thermoelectric materials for sensors, cooling and utilizing waste heat

Uncertainty

Laboratories

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High Throughput laboratory - Oslo

The High Throughput laboratory can be divided in three main activates: 1) design and construction of high-throughput equipment, 2) parallel synthesis of materials, and 3) parallel screening of materials properties. We provide automated custom made high precisions equipment for a wide range of applications. Development and application of combinatorial and parallel approaches are used to accelerate the research and development of a large number of industrially relevant processes.

Mass spectrometry - Advanced research-based analyses

We perform research-based mass spectrometric (MS) and high-throughput (HTS) analyses for SINTEF, academia and industry.
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Projects

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eaSi-system - Framework for systematic SDG impacts assessment

16 February 2021

Our ambition is to create a novel and comprehensive methodology that will bring together the technology development process and resulting technological change. Taking the systems perspective on global value chains, the goal is then to identify subsequent impacts that these have on long-term sustainability as measured by the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) towards 2030.

BIG-MAP: Battery Interface Genome – Materials Acceleration Platform

09 October 2020

Batteries play an important role in our daily lives, powering smart phones, computers, and cars. As the world races to reduce CO2 emissions, the development of sustainable and high-performance batteries takes on an even more important role enabling the large-scale storage of renewable energy, electric shipping, and even electric aviation. The BIG-MAP (Battery Interface Genome – Materials Acceleration Platform) project will accelerate the speed of battery development by fundamentally changing the way we invent batteries.

Batmobile - Multi-scale modelling platform

08 July 2020

BATMOBILE is a multi-scale modelling platform to support theory-based design of new batteries in both industry and research.
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News

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StoRIES attempts to build up a unique Storage Research Infrastructure Eco-System in Europe

19 March 2021

To address the European Green Deal challenges in the field of energy storage, a proposal has been submitted as part of EERA Joint Programme on Energy Storage. The consortium includes 16 partners and 31 beneficiaries from 17 countries all having a vast background in all the energy storage technologies (electrochemical, chemical, thermal, mechanical and superconducting magnetic storages).

DLR & SINTEF research cobalt-free electrodes

12 January 2021

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Norway’s SINTEF institute are researching cobalt-free lithium-ion batteries in the EU project HYDRA together with ten partners. They want to test an industry-ready prototype for real-world operation in a ship battery system.

The EU battery research project HYDRA kicks off the development of sustainable, next-generation Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles

19 October 2020

The EU Horizon 2020 battery research project HYDRA kicked off on September 16th, 2020. The virtual kick-off meeting brought together 12 leading partners from the European battery industry and research community to develop the next generation of sustainable, low-cost, energy-dense Li-ion batteries for electric vehicle (EV) applications.
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