By leveraging advanced materials science and insights into superconducting materials, a new SINTEF project aims to develop next-generation sensors that will make quantum technology more...
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Standard The reuse of materials is one of the most effective climate change mitigation strategies available to the building sector. However, used materials have to meet the same requirements as...
Speed, thrills and experiences in nature. But what about sea sickness? Stock photo: iStock Notes We never forget how it feels to be seasick. Or car sick, for that matter. We can all agree that...
A protective shoe, manufactured by Wenaas, cut in half and pictured together with its LCA flow diagram. The diagram illustrates the manufacturing process and serves to identify items for...
Both the glass and aluminium industries cast glass in furnaces that generate large volumes of greenhouse gases. Photo: Shutterstock/Vera Larina Standard SINTEF is a partner in a new EU-funded...
On 12 April, approximately 43 members of the European wave energy community, and associated industries, gathered in Perugia for IMPACT’s second workshop, organised by project partners SINTEF...
Ropes and lines everywhere! A fish farm worker pictured here preparing to count salmon lice at a facility located along the Trøndelag coast. Photo: Trine Thorvaldsen/SINTEF Ocean. Standard...
Research scientist Amaia Igartua at SINTEF Ocean pictured here working with some of the plastic materials investigated as part of the project MicroLEACH. Photo: Thor Nielsen. Standard The plastic...
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Why we need biofuels
Remember that summer day back in 2007 when you could finally fill your car with bioethanol? Photo: Birna Rørslett/Samfoto/NTB Viewpoints The environmental activist organisation Bellona,...
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We use chemicals for more or less ‘everything’. Now we have to find smarter ways of making them
Researcher and blog author Theresa Rücker, pictured here in her lab at SINTEF, where she is helping to develop innovative and eco-friendly methods of chemical manufacture. Photo: Torbjørn...
Project Manager Tor Åmdal at hydropower company Agder Energi Vannkraft is overseeing the upgrade. Photo: Agder Energi Vannkraft/Å Energi Standard “Initially, companies need assistance...
The authors of this article suggest that 3D printing is perfect for reducing both manufacturing costs and greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping sector, but that things are still being carried...
While some people can perform their work assignments effectively working from home, this doesn’t mean that letting employees off the leash completely is without problems for employers. So say the...
Air traffic controllers from Norway and Italy tested new software in a real time validation exercise at research institute SINTEF's premises in Oslo. The software aims to help them make better...
Trondheim, 8 December 2022: a letter of intent has been signed between SINTEF and Sustainable Energy that will guarantee Norwegian industry access to relevant research and testing infrastructure....
Viewpoints Based on an opinion piece by HYDROGENi Centre Director Nils Røkke, “Nå må vi slutte å snakke om naturgassens fortrinn” (“We must stop talking about the advantages of...
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A minute sensor to the rescue
It isn’t often that things go so wrong as to cause the collapse of a wind turbine. However, new sensors can be used to identify defects and ensure that such events are even rarer. “Most big...
Data is often heralded as the ‘new gold’, but it isn’t always easy to reap the benefits. According to SINTEF researcher Jan Tore Fagertun, digital twins using real-time simulation offer a tool...
SINTEF took an active role at Researchers’ Night 2023, from showing visitors inside the engine of a hydrogen car to explaining how CO₂ can be captured and stored in order to reduce our emissions....
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