Electrotechnical laboratories
SINTEF Energy Research operates laboratories for high voltage, high power and climatic testing. Customers are manufacturers, suppliers and users of electric power equipment.
Energy efficiency
SINTEF creates future-oriented and innovative solutions for energy efficiency in industry, transport and buildings.
Energy efficiency is a vital tool for reducing energy consumption and thus the need for new power sources. This is also an important area for reducing greenhouse gas emissions when fossil fuels are the energy source. SINTEF conducts research on energy efficiency in industry, transportation and in the construction industry. An important research area is efficiency in Norway's power-intensive industries, and the utilization of waste heat.
Expertise
- Aerodynamic analysis of wind turbines and windfarms
- Applied superconductivity
- Building Physics
- Building Ventilation
- Catalysis
- CO2 as working fluid
- Combustion processes for CO2 capture technolgy
- Decision support in energy and environmental management
- Drying of food
- Durability and Service Life of Building Materials
- Electric and hybrid marine power systems
- Electrical energy conversion
- Energy Efficiency in Buildings
- Energy flexibility in Buildings
- Ferroalloys
- Ferrofluid and nanofluid heat transfer
- Flow phenomena
- Freight Transport and City Logistics
- Gasification
- Geothermal energy systems
- Heat Exchange
- Heat Pump Technology
- Heat to Power Conversion
- Hydrogen technology and energy storage
- ICT for Transport and Logistics
- Improving energy efficiency in commercial buildings
- KILE – Regulation of quality of supply – Quality dependent revenue caps (CENS)
- Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings (LCA)
- Local heating and cooling plants
- Microgrids
- Oil, Gas, Water Separation
- Physical Internet for freigh transport
- Planning and Building Legislation
- Power Electronics
- Product Documentation - Buildings
- Pyrolysis
- Refrigeration systems for food processing
- Smart Cities ICT
- Smart energy management ICT
- Smart meters
- Sustainable Regional Development
- Torrefaction
- Wood Construction
- Wood stove technology
Laboratories
Thermal engineering
The thermal engineering laboratories is the nation's leading laboratory in the field of combustion, refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump, low-temperature and bio processes and CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) and processing.
Projects
News
Living with zero-emission technology
How does technology change people, and how do people change in response to technology? Sixteen people volunteered to live in a high-tech, zero-emission house to help researchers answer those exact questions.
Building the foundation in Trondheim for the green transition
For the first time, a major European research infrastructure project is being led by a country from outside the EU.
A future for skiing in a warmer world
As the world struggles to make progress to limit climate change, researchers are finding ways to adapt to warmer winter temperatures — by developing environmentally friendly ways of producing artificial snow.