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 has been made to Statoil's Snøhvit project. Information Manager Sverre Kojedal received the Einar Brendeng...
...relationship with bacteria. They need us and we need them. We find bacteria everywhere. Most of them are in our digestive tracts, but we also find large numbers on our skin and membranes, and in our saliva. Ideally, bacteria should stay where they belong and this is why we wash our hands after going...
...dTHOR will develop the next generation of a predictive Ship Structural Health Monitoring system based on innovative utilization of sensor measurement and hybrid analysis modelling enabling digital twins with high physical realism. After being selected in July 2022 by the European Commission (EC) under...
Teer Coatings Limited (TCL), Miba Coating Group TCL employs 59 staff in Droitwich, UK. Founded in 1985 TCL was taken over by Miba AG in April, 2010 and is now an integral part of the Miba Coating Group. In total Miba is an almost >€600M turnover, 3800 employee, international company, headquartered in...
Ragnar Strandbakke (left) and Einar Vøllestad are the first scientists to have achieved industrial scale production of hydrogen using high-pressure steam. The results were recently published in the journal Nature Materials. Photo: Georg Mathisen. Standard The research results were published recently...
...with tankers, ferries, coastguard vessels, cruise ships and seismic vessels," says senior research scientist Hans Jørgen Rambech of MARINTEK. This year's winner is called Skandi Africa, and it is an offshore construction vessel owned by DOF and designed by VARD. The vessel was designed for offshore installation...
Trondheim will host the world’s biggest ever conference on greenhouse gas control technologies. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and SINTEF are organising the conference on behalf of the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA-GHG). Leading world experts...
A robot that can move forward and inspect complicated pipe systems is currently under development. The robot can twist its way vertically up pipe walls. The new robot functions as a train in horizontal pipes but manoeuvres sideways into a vertical pipe and twists vertically upwards. (Ill: SINTEF...
...blood-vessels, and it is not certain that the patient would survive such a serious operation. Instead, he is placed in a magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus and a large ultrasonic probe is placed on his abdomen. Within a few seconds, three-dimensional images of his abdominal cavity and liver appear on...
...resulting in considerable variation in the physical quality of commercial feeds. Feed represents more than 50% of the costs in Norwegian fish farming, and the total yearly cost of feed is approximately 7 billion NOK. Thus, even small fractions lost or poorly utilised will amount to large sums. The feed...
Manuel Oliveira, SINTEF-researcher and CEO at KIT-AR, demonstrating KIT's augmented reality functions that gives you the perfect skills - just when you need it. Photo: Thor Nielsen Standard European manufacturing represents approximately 22 percent of the GNP of the EU and provides jobs for 34 million in...
Researcher Andy Booth, SINTEF (behind) and NTNU partner Iurgi Imanol Salaverria-Zabalegui grow algae that will later be "exposed" to micro plastics. Photo: Thor Nielsen. Annually, about 300 million tonnes of plastic are manufactured worldwide and, according the Norwegian Environment Agency, production...
Lundmark Daae The oil industry is heading north. It is said that 30 per cent of remaining gas, and 13 per cent of remaining oil, reserves are to be found in the Arctic. We’re talking about billions. The Snøhvit and Goliat projects are being developed for operation in temperatures of minus 20 degrees. In the...
...robot effortlessly picks up one castor after another from the pile in the box and puts them into the channel. No matter how the wheels are lying, the robot manages to get an exact grip. By Åse Dragland Operations run smoothly and automatically when assembling the various parts of an office chair at the...
Air traffic controllers from Norway and Italy tested new software in a real time validation exercise at research institute SINTEF's premises in Oslo. The software aims to help them make better use of the airspace and reduce flight delays. In front of large screens showing the air traffic over Milan...
...day we paint about 20.000 pieces ready for assembling lines and we supply them to the most important European car manufacturers. In the last years we develop automatic painting applications and integration of robot in automatic spray system and we become a strategic partner of ABB robots. We are also a...
Intensive Qualitative Studies of Activity Limitations and Access to Healthcare WP3 will investigate the experience of health service users, health service non-users and health service providers. This WP will provide an in-depth description of what is happening when people are using the health care services...
...chamber The overall objective of the present project is to establish basic understanding of deep water pipeline repair welding and hot tapping, as studied in both national and international laboratories using pressure chambers to simulate dry hyperbaric welding conditions. In order to accomplish this...
Norway. Photo: Carl Attard (Pexels) Standard “The price of solar-generated electricity continues to plummet, and the technology is taking over as the least expensive form of energy in more and more parts of the world”, says solar cell researcher John Atle Bones at SINTEF. “We’re at an economic tipping...
...collaborative project that brings together several teams comprised of both leading and upcoming researchers, from two European and four African countries. This strong consortium, with established project management and research credentials, is managed by the Project Coordinator at Trinity College Dublin...