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...person died in a fire in a sheltered housing apartment in Trondheim recently. But the authorities and SINTEF are already looking at new ways of saving lives when fires break out in this type of apartment and in the homes of elderly people who live alone. This is how a kitchen may look after a fire, if...

...priority based rule for use during the process of scheduling trains operating on a single track railway line was proposed by the Norwegian railway operator and owner, Jernbaneverket. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the suggested scheduling rule on the scheduled waiting times suffered...

This truck, manufactured by the German company MAN, runs on green hydrogen and can make the journey from Trondheim to Oslo on one tank of fuel. Photo courtesy of the MAN press archive. Standard “Things are moving at last – and at a scale unheard of before”, says Steffen Møller-Holst, who is Vice President...

...heated only by electricity and will start to lose heat very quickly when it gets cold outdoors. In just a few days, many homes will be too cold to be considered habitable for the elderly and those in poor health. So-called ‘passive houses’, installed with good insulation and equipped with smart energy...

NOWIcob is ... wind farm over the lifetime. NOWIcob can serve as a decisison support tool to analyse the consequences of different decisions regarding maintenance and logistic strategy. Find out more. ...

HIV. However, they were confused when the questions turned to the causes and treatment of TB. Some of them did not even know that TB is an infectious disease, while many believed that it affected only people who already have HIV, and some did not know whether or not they had been tested for TB. Grut’s findings...

Energy and Process Technology, take the lift to the third floor, where they settle down in an office. Professor Einar Brendeng is Snøhvit's grandfather. Photo: Lasse Berre Professor Emeritus Einar Brendeng is eighty yearas old and still puts in his eight hours a day at his office. His research and his...

...indicators, such as blood percentages, blood sugar and infections. For other test results, the sample must be sent to a central laboratory for analysis. Improved sensitivity Four years ago, SINTEF began a joint project with Stanford University in the USA and the University of Oslo (UiO). The aim was to build...

...assembled and evaluated. By using Automatic Differentiation (AD), we compute automatically the derivatives of the residual. Examples of use of automatic differentiation can be found in MRST book. The governing equations are the mass conservation equations for the 4 components: He, Ne, CO₂ and water, and the...

...the same degree and knot vector. A polynomial spline curve is a spline curve where each coordinate function is a polynomial spline function from the same spline space. It can be written on the form C(t) = c1B1(t) + c2B2(t) + ... + cnBn(t) where the Bk are the B-spline functions, and the n-dimensional...

...following international workshops. "Negotiating the futures". Workshop om foresight arrangert ved Universitetet i Oslo, 7. juni 2007 "User involvement and representation in e-Government projects". Workshop at the conference NordiCHI'06, Oktober 15, 2006 "User involvement in e-Government developing projects"...

Ship-To-Ship (STS) operation where two ships are together in open waters and transfer the cargo e.g. crude oil, LNG. High skills and experience are required by the human operators as no relevant equipment for determining the relative speeds and distances with sufficient accuracies has been implemented. The officer...

...in four scientific work packages: Computational Fluid Dynamics Experimental Measurements – Visualization Studies Mathematical models Nautical aspects and guidance system design For a detailed description of each work package, click on the link list to the left....

Christian Askeland (right) and Jon Eiesland seen here testing the new needle guidance system in the laboratory. Photo: Thor Nielsen/SINTEF. It looks like a pistol in which the stock has been replaced by a long needle. The tool, called MultiGuide, has been developed by NTNU and is based on an invention...

...in the year than recent releases. We have adjusted our release schedule such that we now aim to release in April and October. The new release comes with some improvements in functionality and minor bug fixes. In particular we would like to highlight the following: Improved Octave support. New functionality...

..."Industrial Applications of Scheduling and Routing I and II" in the stream "Transportation" at the IFORS 2011 conference. 11.06.20 10th anniversary of Distribution Innovation AS. Most project members participated in the seminar and the celebrations. Svein Are Grønsund and Geir Hasle gave invited talks. 11...

...instance definitions and the best known solutions (to our knowledge) for the 1000 customer instances of Gehring & Homberger's extended VRPTW benchmark. The version reported here has a hierarchical objective: 1) Minimize number of vehicles 2) Minimize total distance. Distance and time should be calculated...

...renewable, and full of energy. Waves are capable of providing us with "blue-green" energy for the future, and are a source of energy carriers such as hydrogen. Photo: Thinkstock The idea is as brilliant as it is simple. “In principle, it works almost like a bicycle pump” says engineer and Project Manager...

This means that priority must be assigned to providing universal design in all primary and lower secondary schools. In a recent study, carried out by SINTEF and funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs (Bufdir), researchers have been looking into how the municipalities assess...

...progress to extract mineral samples used to map the field. Photo: REE Minerals AS. Notes Many rare materials are crucial to the green transition, and the minerals that are planned to be extracted from the Fen Field deposit in the Norwegian municipality Telemark will have an important role to play....