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The idea being the basis for the first CO₂ patents from SINTEF and NTNU was conceived by Professor Gustav Lorentzen (1915-95). The International Institute of Refrigeration named a biennial conference after Professor Lorentzen.   In the end of May 2006 this conference – ”7th IIR - Gustav Lorentzen Conference...

...errors. Hybrid meshes involving hexahedral elements close to the wall and then tetrahedral meshes elsewhere have more recently become a norm. One reason why these kinds of mesh generators are most commonly used is the ease of their usage and automation. SINTEF ICT recently has been trying to address the issue...

...process control system or the operator fails to keep process parameters within predetermined limits, the process equipment is designed to shut down and prevent adverse development of the situation. With these redundant safety devices, how can accidents occur? It is evident that in order to reach a critical...

...gravity and add IMPES solver and deckformat. Initialize the model bases on "ODEH.data" Compute various quantities needed for the IMPES solver Solve the model Plot bottom hole pressure for the wells Plot producer Gas/Oil ratio Plot accumulated production Set up gravity and add IMPES solver and deckformat...

...is d+1, and their polynomial part on I form a basis of all d-degree polynomial functions on I. Therefore, when evaluating a spline function for a particular parameter value t, it suffices to evaluate the d+1 B-splines that are non-zero in t. The evaluation of B-splines is numerically stable and efficient...

...series, the Norwegian Centre for Dementia Research has provided us with feedback to our assisted living scenarios. The doctor’s appointment scenario and the multimedia assistant scenario involve an elderly woman who is becoming forgetful. The idea of the scenarios is that her son composes services to...

...the modeling equations (in this case mass conservation of oil, water and polymer) are assembled. The function returns the residual vector (one value per cell) and the Jacobians with respect to the main variables (pressure, saturation and polymer concentration). function eqs = equationOWPolymer(state0, state...

...provided in the file fault_dual.mat and was produced by an inhouse algorithm. <!--/introduction--> Contents Load the modules required for the example Define grid Generate the coarse grid Load the corresponding dual grid Visualize the dual grid Define permeability and fluid Add a simple Dirichlet pressure...

...the South Atlantic. Since the department won its first contract with Petrobras in 2001, cooperation with the company has steadily increased in scope, and the Brazilian company is now one of its most important customers. “This is a feather in our cap,” says Research Director Johan Tronvoll, who leads SINTEF...

...have shown that it is possible to double larval lobster survival and boost their growth rates”, says Evjemo. Up to now the problem has been that only relatively few survive the larval stage. The animals are very picky about their food, and will exhibit cannibalistic tendencies if food supplies are low...

...project Activate trapping Interactive spill point analysis of top surface grids This example demonstrates the use of the interactive viewer for viewing and finding structural traps for CO₂ migration. This tutorial is primarily concerned with interactive usage: For general information of trap analysis, see...

...are already in production. According to Sagvolden, they represent a technology which initially can bring solar energy into new areas of utilisation, and eventually can lower the price of photovoltaics. However, these early versions are not very efficient compared to current solar cells made of silicon...

Steel frame structures can have a very complex topology and may be unsuited for representation by linear or low order polynomial elements. Isogeometric analysis and a representation with block structured trivariate NURBS patches may be a better approach than traditional FEA to perform structural analasys...

Ultra-efficient solar cells, based on cheap materials, could be here in a few years. By Ole Martin Løvvik, senior scientist at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry and adjunct professor at the University of Oslo. This article has already appeared in the Norwegian daily Dagens Næringsliv, on August 15, 2014. Sunlight...

...captured. Normally, this process uses heat as its source of energy, and some industries are able to exploit available surplus heat. For others, however, carbon capture requires complicated retrofitting or modifications to infrastructure, and incurs increased fuel costs. Optimising energy consumption A team...

Tieback solutions to existing oil and gas facilities can play a key role for Norway’s ability to meet emission targets while maintaining a competitive industry. However, petroleum production systems often deliver fluids with complex physical chemistry. The innovation project ChemFlow aims to develop...

SINTEF researcher had actually retired. But science needed the help of Schmid. She has spent most of her professional career researching nanoparticles and the properties they can be given. She has also been president of the global research organisation, CRS. The problem:Nanomedicines can save many lives...

...mastersizer, nanosizer, surface characteristics: zeta potential measurements, Various analytical methods are available to follow the catalytic oxidation and to check the property of the solution. For example, concentration change: UV-vis, TOC, detailed analysis, oxidation mechanism: GC-MS, solution properties:...

...the CO₂ injected into Utsira can easy migrate and, given enough time, exit mapped aquifer boundaries. The amount of CO₂ storable in the formation over time thus depends not only on the total available pore space of of the aquifer, but also on the size and exploitability of its various trapping mechanisms...

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