...directly to humans who are bathing in the sea or taking part in other recreational activities. “The bacteria contained in sewage and wastewater discharged from households, hospitals and factories will form biofilms on plastic surfaces in the sea”, explains Gunhild Hageskal, who is a Senior Research Scientist...
SINTEF Petroleum Research and Institutt for Energiteknikk (IFE) have entered into agreement with seven companies on a new and exciting data collection project. The recently upgraded laboratories at Tiller and Kjeller now go directly into industrial use. In 2012, the newspaper Aftenposten acknowledged...
Using open international standards and new technology will contribute substantially to a sustainable development of the Norwegian construction industry. The board of Catenda AS (From the left: Founder of Catenda AS, Håvard Bell, Research Director at SINTEF Building and Infrastructure Kim Robert Lisø, Chairman...
...with a fully carbon-negative approach. The role of biogas in reducing CO₂ emissions in the EU by 2050 is crucial, especially as demand from industry and the energy sector is expected to rise significantly. Therefore, prioritising biogas production through waste-to-hydrogen conversion is essential. Using...
...obtaining both the scarcer metals and those for which we have a plentiful supply. However, the recovery of metals from the minerals we mine results in by-products that all too often end up as waste. This waste may also have major local and global impacts on nature and the environment. Some of the research...
JORUNN SKJERMO (43) PhD in aquaculture, 1996. Joined SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture as senior scientist. Has taken initiative to, and led, national and international projects for the Research Council of Norway, the EU Commission and StatoilHydro, among others. Senior scientist Jorunn Skjermo is the driving...
...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...
...refurbished – and partly newly built – square metres. SINTEF researcher Lars Skjelstad was a specially invited guest of honour at the opening ceremony. With the support of funding from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Skjelstad and his SINTEF colleague Torbjørn Netland designed the internal logistics and organisation...
...2009-09-01: microBUILDER represented by poster and lecture at COMS 2009 Lecture: In Vitro Diagnostic Platforms of the Future - Technological Challenges and Possibilities July 2009: Third release of the microBUILDER Design Handbook is now available from the consortium. The design handbook enables experienced...
Accepted/In Press Nordbotten, J.M. and H.K. Dahle (2010), Vertically averaged capillary fringe models for CO2 storage, Water Resources Research Gasda, S.E., H.M. Nilsen, H.K. Dahle (2013), Impact of structural heterogeneity on upscaled models for large-scale CO2 migration and trapping in saline aquifers, Advances...
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...
...anthropologist and SINTEF researcher Emil A. Røyrvik (39) SINTEF’s Award for Excellence in Research. The award, which is worth NOK 150 000, can be given to current SINTEF Group employees. Brought out by prestigious publishing house Røyrvik, a senior scientist at SINTEF Technology and Society, was awarded...
...emissions from aircraft and ships by developing advanced and cost-effective biofuels. Advanced biofuels have the potential to decarbonize the transport sector by saving several gigatons of CO2 emission per year. With a blending mandate of 63 percent for sustainable aviation fuels, and a 70 percent reduction...
...substations and the analysis of data traffic were on the agenda at the National Smart Grid Laboratory in early November. Nineteen participants from five different grid companies as well as Statnett, NVE, and NTNU, took part in the course organised by the ECoDiS project (Engineering and Condition monitoring...
Laboratory Manager Jørn Stenebråten (right) and researcher Lars Erik Walle at SINTEF Industry demonstration the Polyax Rocker. Photo: Thor Nielsen Standard Oil reservoirs occur in geological formations and, like all other subsurface rocks, are subject to physical forces, including various stresses...
...24-year-old women from Tromsø and Hamar in Norway were offered free hormonal contraception for a year. The result was that the abortion rate in the trial cities was halved. The project came to an end in December 2009, and the results obtained by the SINTEF Technology and Society scientists were quite...
...without generating harmful emissions. SINTEF and NTNU are among the leading research institutions in the world in the field of the capture and storage of the greenhouse gas CO2. Their research is being carried out in close collaboration with the industry and other leading research institutions. Researching...
...saving 200 lives every year. This is why in February last year, Health and Care Services Minister Bent Høie launched the national “Saving lives together” campaign. About the project As part of its subsidiary project, the Norwegian Heart and Lung Association (LHL) will be reaching out to 629,300 pupils in 2...
The more the bumper and front of the car deform, the better it is for the people inside a car during a car crash. That is how NTNU experts evaluated the car that cross-country ski racing star Petter Northug drove off road on 4 May last year. Photo: Henrik Sundgård A good car collision should look like...
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...