...for the climate, the environment and people. Illustration is from a planned district at the former airport in Bodø municipality. Illustration: Henning Larsen architects Standard “The most important criteria for a climate-friendly city are the location of homes and the daily commute destinations like...
...silent and deadly threat remains after the war: mines, explosives, and toxic residues. More than 87,000 km² of land in Ukraine is potentially contaminated, an area larger than Austria. For the country’s farmers, this means loss of livelihood, and for Europe, weakened food security. Researchers and students...
How can we reduce food waste and at the same time preserve the quality of Norwegian fruit and vegetables? This is the question that researchers at SINTEF Ocean want to answer this project. The project explores how ozone can be used to extend the shelf life and improve the quality of foods such as potatoes...
...versions of GPT are achieving unprecedented capabilities for assisting humans in the completion of diverse and complex tasks. Despite their extraordinary performance, GPT models remain opaque and prone to hallucinations. Moreover, GPT models are still underperforming when completing complex reasoning...
The ENFIELD project will establish a unique European Centre of Excellence that excels in fundamental research in Adaptive, Green, Human-Centric, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). ENFIELD is an EU-funded project that aims to create a European Centre of Excellence for research withing four...
DYNAPORT will develop new optimization and coordination tools for ports and ships that reduce the ship's fuel consumption and increases port efficiency with at least 10% and ensure implementation by relying on internationally accepted information sharing standards. Whatever the pathway for a sustainable...
...believe that it is good for the immune system and helps to clear the head. Detractors say that the cold simply make us ill. So, what do researchers have to say about the effects of cold on our bodies? Gemini invited SINTEF research scientist, physiologist and low temperature expert Øystein Wiggen to share...
...calculate necessary levels of investments in urban water- and wastewater networks. About SOVAL SOVAL helps municipalities (water utilities) and consultants calculate necessary rehabilitation level, rehabilitation rate and investment need in urban water- and wastewater networks in order to maintain or improve...
A method to generate hourly time series for wind power and solar power production for a number specified locations, covering the 65 year time period from 1950 to 2014. Om The primary purpose of the time series is to be used in simulations using the EMPS multi-area power market simulator where long...
Homepage Objective: To establish the basis to deveping all round environmentally friendly binder systems. Project manager and disciplinary responsible: Harald Justnes PhD: Klaartje De Weerdt and Kien Hoang International advisor: Professor Fred Glasser, University of Aberdeen, UK The project co-operated with...
A webinar on how surveillance and first responders may be enabled to carry out operations together with robots and drones. Webinar This webinar is organized by the project Automated Task planning for Autonomous multi-robot Teams (ATAM), financed by the Research Council of Norway. The project is led...
FME NorthWind, the University of Oslo (Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law) and Ocean Grid invite you to this webinar about congestion and congestion management in the power grid. Webinar The webinar will be held by Stephany Nicole Paredes Pineda, power market analyst at Hafslund Eco, Norway. Overview: The...
This 'double' webinar presented and summarized the work in ELEGANCY on business case development and hydrogen-CCS chains. Webinar <!-- [if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false NO-BOK X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table...
Natural gas can be accessed in large volumes, such as from here in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. A new technology that converts this gas into hydrogen, and which captures CO2 at the same time without using external energy, is now attracting international attention. Stock photo: CreativeNature_nl/iStock ...
At SINTEF, we have research communities with cutting-edge expertise on how to best plan for and utilise distributed energy resources in the distribution grid, and how battery systems can subsequently help mitigate the technical challenges that distributed generation present to the grid. Electricity...
...firefighters, and to study the dual challenge of exposure to heat and carcinogenic compounds exposure and related outcomes, and how this knowledge can be used to establish preventive measures. Webinar: The HERO project - Health risks and health effects of firefighter work Program and registration January...
Biofuels are fuels derived from biological materials that can be used to replace petrol, diesel and other fossil-based fuels. https://blog.sintef.com/sintefenergy/bioenergy/status-of-biofuels-in-norway-and-worldwide-2018/ ...
...that many people are seeing the potential of algae and plankton”, says Centre Manager and Research Director Gunvor Øie at SINTEF Ocean. “Our aim is to contribute towards establishing a new biomarine industry in Norway. Some people believe that algae and plankton will be the new oil”, she says. Seaweed...
...risers there is need for cooperation, improvements and systematic work. The starting point should be an industry consensus of what is the current status and secondly promote and obtain standardization. With this as the background the JIP - Safe and Cost Effective Operation of Flexible Pipes was established...
SINTEF President and CEO Alexandra Bech Gjørv and NTNU Rector Gunnar Bovim. Photo: Thor Nielsen/NTNU Fully 9.1 per cent of all research publications from NTNU are in collaboration with SINTEF, a number that puts the university at the top worldwide with respect to publishing collaboratively, according...