In safety work we have traditionally been concerned with mistakes, failures and why things go wrong. Such a focus will always be important to prevent new accidents, but there is also much to learn why things go well. Why do we succeed in coping with...
Unfavorable exposures for workers in the fishing fleet, such as a cold, noise, heavy lifting, inconvenient working hours, long work days and excessive strain are factors that may negatively affect health and work participation. Combinations of these...
Full Scale Performance Prediction for Energy Efficient Ship Design.
SINTEF is now financing the priority project "Bio-based products from sustainable resources", an interdisciplinary project where three SINTEF institutes collaborates with a common goal – to develop technology for the creation of valuable products...
INTERACT shall develop methods, models and tools for efficient energy interaction between energy demand, surplus heat/cool and thermal storage and third part deliverance to the district heating/cooling.
It is estimated that a large part of the world's remaining hydrocarbon resources are located in the Arctic areas. The climatic conditions make it demanding to explore the resources. Thus, the overall objective of the SMACC-project is to develop...
The objective is to produce tangible evidence of the applicability of Isogeometric representation and analysis by addressing four industrial Use Cases
The aquaculture industry will experience a lack of fish oil for feed production, and there is a need for alternative EPA and DHA sources. Marine microalgae can be a source of marine oils.
Improving Lifetime of Fuel Cells by Smart Control and Prognostics
Supported by Statoil and NFR (Demo2000) SINTEF is developing a real-time decision support application for drilling operations in sensitive areas.
With support from industry actors, the SINTEF has established a research project to learn more about the effects and hazards of underwater gas blowouts and gas leaks.
The project's main objective is to develop patient-specific computer models of the cardiovascular system for treatment planning and therapeutic decisions of cardiovascular diseases. The first objective is to simulate and validate blood flow pattern...
Photovoltaic solar energy is recognized as one of the most promising future sustainable energy sources. Multicrystalline silicon solar cells represent the most cost effective alternative. In this type of solar cells crystal defects and impurities are...
Storvik Aqua is in cooperation with SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Marine Harvest and Lerøy Hydrotech developing a concept for automatic counting of mobile and stationary stages of salmon lice.
Sustainable production of traditional and novel dry meat products
The innovative and economic potential of Manufactured Nano Materials (MNMs) is threatened by a limited understanding of the related Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) issues. NANoREG is the first FP7 project to deliver the answers needed by...
Early in January 2013 the Norwegian Directorate of Health completed a work study of models for municipal co-financing of mental health and drug abuse (TSB).
SINTEF has been commissioned by the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority conducted an activity and capacity analysis of Akershus University Hospital (Ahus HF). The mission has included mapping of activity and capacity for today's hospitals...