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A heat pump is an invention that dates back more than 150 years. It is based on the relationship between temperature and pressure in a gas or liquid circulating inside a pump (the working...

Following an initiative taken by SINTEF, the EU and China are launching a project with the aim of cutting global emissions of greenhouse gases. The cooperative effort will give Europe emission...

Eivind Grøv (49) of SINTEF has been elected Vice-president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association.   SINTEF tunnel scientist Eivind Grøv has seen much of...

With the aim in mind of recognising persons and institutions that have adopted advanced technology NTNU and SINTEF have founded the Einar Brendeng Technology Prize. The first award of the Prize...

Press release: November 11, 2005 David Lysne, President of SINTEF Petroleum Research, is to leave SINTEF. “I am leaving of my own accord, because I believe that my departure will be the best...

Care dwellings are unsuitable for the most feeble elderly people and those with dementia. This finding emerged from an interview study that SINTEF has carried out in 12 Norwegian municipalities...

The project aims to improve environmental conditions in connection with the spawning and hatching of wrasse eggs, using multiple anti-fouling coatings on spawning mats. Over the last few years...

The electronic quality manual for pelagic fish was designed in the project "Pelagic quality - from ocean to plate," which was a larger collaborative project ended in 2006 with participants...

Iterative software development is highly suitable for the Scandinavian style of working, according to SINTEF researchers Tore Dybå and Torgeir Dingsøyr. Human and social aspects seem to...

Kongsberg Oil &Gas Technologies (KOGT) recently introduced the multiphase flow simulator LedaFlow to the oil and gas industry. The simulator, which KOGT has progressively developed into a...

Contact Project Coordinator of DemoCLOCK, Shahriar Amini A project funded by the European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners aims to demonstrate a cost-effective...

Contact Research Scientist, Stephan Kubowicz The first steps have been taken towards rainwear which repairs itself In co-operation with research scientists and industry colleagues in eight...

The main goal of the project is to establish criteria and solutions for safe and cost-effective application of materials for hydrocarbon exploration and production in arctic regions. 25% of the...

Contact:  Jack Arild Ødegård  Several years of Norwegian research on fracture mechanics have resulted in new numerical modelling tools. The new software means that we can calculate...

The main objective and target innovation of this proposed project is a new and improved coating for metal (stainless steel) bipolar plates for PEM fuel cells, which ensures a lifetime of more than...

Aquaculture is still facing a number of bottlenecks. To further develop aquaculture, the major bottlenecks need to be systematically removed. At the production level, unpredictable larval...

The main concept of piezoVolume is to develop a platform of integrated processes for production of piezoelectric microsystems. The platform will cover the complete microfabrication process chain...

The NanoPV project aims at making a breakthrough step-change in photo-voltaics by the removal of a set of bottlenecks which have been identified to block the application of nanostructures for...

Most Japanese people heat their water using gas. However, some of them have chosen an alternative technology developed in Norway that leads to major reductions in CO₂ emissions. SINTEF’s Petter...

Europe 1992: The term “HDTV” was on the lips of everyone in TV companies and the electronics industry. Meanwhile, Norwegian scientyists were finding a smart way to transmit the new images via the...