...future-oriented solutions to reduce energy consumption. This year’s award went to the Rema Kroppanmarka supermarket, represented by Rema Property and SINTEF Energy Research. The Kroppanmarka supermarket has just been awarded Trondheim’s Energy Conservation Prize. The whole energy chain in the store...
... Smart use of daylight and waste heat “I am quite certain we can put it like that. There is not another free-standing supermarket in Norway whose energy consumption is as low as this,” says Hafner, indicating the interior of the brightly-lit premises, stacked full of food and other necessities. According...
...can be combined with standard Si/glass and polymer processes for enhanced functionality. The combined technologies often involve materials not used in the standard processes. Such mixing of the available microBUILDER technologies allows for improved functionality and higher performance of a variety of new...
The President of SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Karl Andreas Almås, crouches over his laptop, opens one of his presentations and finds an illustration. It shows one red curve and one blue. He then indicates the point where they meet each other, then frowns and says the message he cannot repeat often...
Together with Norwegian and overseas industrial interests, the Research Council of Norway and Gassnova are investing millions of kroner in a new research programme on gas power with CO2 treatment. These efforts make it more likely that Norway will build power stations of this sort in the future, according...
Shallow and Confined Water, Ship-to-ship Interaction, 18-20 May 2011 in Trondheim, Norway, arranged by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Flanders Hydraulics Research and Ghent University – Maritime Technology Division in association with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and MARINTEK...
Information about pipeline integrity is today primarily obtained from two sources: A limited number of sensors (infield pipelines) ROV’s and intelligent pigging These methods have limitations. Most of the sensors used are intrusive. Intrusive sensors have the advantage that very accurate measurements...
...the salmon (e.g. excessively high or low temperatures, low dissolved oxygen, algal and jellyfish blooms, surface aluminium levels, and sea lice) or negatively affect farm structures (e.g. storms, currents, icing, and biofouling; Table 1). Clear instances exist where submerging salmon could avoid mass...
...suffered a cruciate ligament and cartilage injury that will keep him out of action for a year. Photo: Manu Fernandez/AP/NTB Viewpoints Forcing more and more fixtures into their tournaments seems to have developed into a contest in which the international football associations UEFA and FIFA are constantly trying...
...open scientific questions about how a widespread and long-established chemical substance -ammonia- may help the shipping industry to become climate-friendly. It is becoming increasingly evident that ammonia has the potential to be a very convenient and viable alternative fuel for use across a range of...
F.O. Alpak, M. Pal, and K.-A. Lie. A multiscale method for modeling flow in stratigraphically complex reservoirs. SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, The Woodlands, TX, USA, 21-23 February, 2011. S. Krogstad. A sparse basis POD for model reduction of multiphase compressible flow. SPE Reservoir Simulation...
Hydro. To assure the interdicipline perspectives, and to safeguard the integrity of the CRIOP methodology a Steering Committee, a project team and a quality assurance team were established. In addition the project team recieved valuable comments and assistance. In 2004 several improvements have been...
...liquid and the vapour, improves the classical theory. Illustration: iStock Standard Understanding droplet formation in pure water in a controlled lab setting is challenging enough, but in the atmosphere, droplets form in the presence of many other substances. Some of them, like nitrogen, oxygen and argon...
...continue to use our hospitals in the same way as we do now, the health service in 2030 will need to employ every second young person in the country and increase hospital bed capacity by 5000. Recent estimates made by SINTEF hospital researchers indicate that the “flood” of elderly people, which will...
SINTEF Standard Do you like skiing – and especially going fast? Then you know how important it is to optimize your power as a cross-country skier. Maybe you compete and have also wondered how you can gain valuable seconds. Of course, a lot depends on technique and physical conditioning, but research also...
...stations needed. Photo: Shutterstock Viewpoints Norway has achieved a great deal when it comes to the electrification of passenger cars and light goods vehicles, and this is essential if we are to meet our climate change mitigation targets. It only remains now to provide a similar boost to the heavy transport...
...seasonal changes. Authors: Mark Mulrooney, Postdoc NCCS and Peter Betlem, PhD NCCS NCCS researchers are now studying Svalbard's subsurface and outcrops to gain important integrity data that will help to successfully deliver carbon capture, transport and storage (CCS), a critical climate change mitigation...
Cusk is traditionally used for the production of dry stockfish and salted fish. A new project is looking into whether it can be offered to consumers as fillets. Photo: Solveig Uglem/SINTEF Standard “Cusk makes for a delicious fish dinner”, says SINTEF researcher Guro Møen Tveit. “Our study shows that...
...photo: RossHelen/Shutterstock Viewpoints Again and again we hear the same appeal – calling out loud and clear in a number of feature articles: “If we don’t train more realists to provide us with more technology, the green transition will exhaust itself and the health services crumble in the face of an...
...training with a high load and few repetitions can slow the onset of symptoms and, in some cases, even reverse symptoms. Above, we see physiotherapist and exercise physiologist Håvard Haglo PhD with Anne-Margrethe Skorstad. Photo: Myworkout Standard Many of us have tried and given up strength training...