Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi to discuss a legally binding, global plastic treaty. Researcher Emily Cowan was present in person representing SINTEF, and after long negotiations, the members reached a resolution to begin discussions for such a treaty. Though we don’t have a treaty yet, this resolution...
...leading SINTEF’s research efforts in this field. “People go out and gather the molluscs along the shoreline. But many of the conditions needed for commercial farming are now in place”, he says. “We’ve succeeded, under laboratory conditions and for the first time in Norway, in hatching periwinkle eggs, raising...
SINTEF/NTNU This new means of delivering drugs has already been successfully tested on mice and rats and, according to researchers at SINTEF, could open the way for entirely new treatments of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. SINTEF researchers have developed a new nanocapsule that exploits the...
...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...
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...
...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...
...this immediately introduces legal restrictions and practical barriers. Stock photo: Ilja Hendel/NTB Viewpoints The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors alone. This article was first published in the financial daily Dagens Næringsliv and is reproduced here with the permission of the...
SINTEF Energy Research can tell you when and where lightning has struck. And the data come straight to your pocket. Warm, damp weather means the start of the thunderstorm season in Norway, with July and August reckoned to be the months in which lightning strikes most often. The record was set in 2003...
...run parallel to the risers (yellow) and are connected to the DEH cables on the seabed. Illustration: Nexans How can we prevent ice-cold plugs from forming in Norway’s arteries on the seabed? Ths question was the backdrop for a joint effort by Norwegian scientists and industry to develop a system for direct...
...first persons in the world to have the idea of capturing CO2 and storing it in geological formations for climatic purposes. Trondheim, 2011: Chief scientist Erik Lindeberg of SINTEF Petroleum Research receives the international “SINTEF and NTNU CCS Award” for his pioneering role in research on storing...
Carlos A. Grande and Silvia Bordiga. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP05905D CO2 Adsorption Sites in UTSA-16: Multitechnique Approach Authors: Alessio Masala, Francesca Grifasi, Cesare Atzori, Jenny G. Vitillo, Lorenzo Mino, Francesca Bonino, Michele R. Chierotti and Silvia Bordiga...
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...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...
...energy. It is also important that the energy is green and renewable. Photo: Sigurd Fandango Standard Surrounded by the sea off the coast of Helgeland in Mid-Norway, lies an island called Myken. This small island has about ten permanent inhabitants, and for more than 50 years has been supplied with electricity...