...from SINTEF are launching a new wiki-website that lists tools and measures available to make hydropower more fish-friendly. The project draws on the concept of environmental design, which integrates technical, economic, environmental and social aspects when developing or re-designing energy projects...
Fisheries and Aquaculture are developing software for the design of energy efficient ships. The software can roughly be said to consist of two layers. The bottom layer is a mathematical model for the on-board energy systems. This model describes the components that produce energy, i.e. the engines, and any...
...proposed the term "Shipping 4.0" to describe the rapidly increasing digitalization and automation in merchant shipping and to link it to similar developments on land, called Industry 4.0. The recent news that IMO and its Facilitation Committee made great progress in digitalization of shipping is in...
...fertilisation period for cattle and pigs and give more babies. There are currently two methods for artificial insemination: bull semen can be frozen to a temperature of -172 °C and may be stored indefinitely. However, pig semen must be diluted and stored liquid, and the storage capacity is only a few...
...image-processing system could prove to be an important tool for Norwegian agriculture and for the thousands of farmers who spray their fields with weed-killer every year. The program can distinguish between weeds and useful plants in real-time during spraying, making it possible to spray only the plants...
The application of new technologies will enable companies to gather and analyse data from their production processes and use them to reduce the likelihood of manufacturing defects. Stock photo: iStock Notes Computers were integrated into Industry 3.0 to reduce the use of manual labour. Industry 4.0...
Hello everybody! I am Martin, 22 and I am a French student coming from Mines Saint Etienne, which is a Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, member of Institut Mines-Télécom and ranked among the top 15 engineering school in France. This summer, I am doing three months internship in Trondheim...
IT Funk is a Norwegian R&D program on information technology for disabled people. IT Funk targets businesses and institutions that research, develop, produce and distribute ICT-based products and services of importance for accessibility in society. The customization capabilities that will be provided by...
...through its THERMIE and 5th Framework Energy programs and the KLIMATEK program of the Norwegian Research Council. Research in the SACS project is predominantly carried out by BGS BRGM GEUS IFP NITG-TNO SINTEF Petroleum Research Participants with observer status are Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing...
Project 3.1 Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems Project Leader: Senior Researcher <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"/????> Jørn Stene , SINTEF Energy Research. Simultaneousness analysis for heating and ventilation systems Development of a computer...
...is to create an efficient and cost effective multi-scale simulation platform based on free and open-source codes. This platform will connect models spanning a wide range of scales from the atomic scale through the particle and cluster scales, the industrial equipment scale and the full system scale. To...
There is a massive potential for reducing both traffic noise and fuel consumption linked to conventional cars by combining low-noise tyres and the right kind of road surfacing. This photo is taken during the tests. Photo: SINTEF TRAFFIC NOISE: Current growth in the use of electric cars is providing...
...between aircraft and ground will help deal with the doubling of air traffic in the coming years. Photo: Thinkstock . Today, most communication between an aircraft and air traffic controllers takes place verbally. But aircraft are also able to utilise a data link system for sending and receiving instructions...
...control dashboard for the pharmaceuticals industry. This enables all pharmacies, wholesalers and manufacturers to check where products are in the supply chain, availability, what stocks the neighbouring pharmacy has and the future prognoses. When a packet of pills is scanned at the pharmacy checkout, information...
...the goal of scientists who have joined forces with the salmon farming industry to develop much longed-for support tools that will help fish farmers and the authorities through the important decision-making phases of the struggle against salmon diseases. The multidisciplinary research group that has taken...
On his way to Brussels and the leadership of EERA, Nils Røkke, Executive Vice President Sustainability – SINTEF in Norway. Photo: Thor Nielsen/SINTEF FACTS: What is the EERA? The EERA is a public research alliance that brings together more than 175 research centres and universities, working together...
...practical support tools and systems to transform shopping centres into energy-efficient architectural complexes. This is the future vision of the shopping center City Syd. The outline is designed by ARC architects from Trondheim. We are spending more and more time in shopping centres, and now that autumn is...
...active in working life than Norwegian women, and less than men with an immigrant background. However, this does not mean that Norwegians’ perceptions of immigrant women as a homogeneous, passive group are correct. Data collected by SINTEF researchers Berit Berg and Tove Håpnes show that many immigrant women...
...most levels of the organisation. The 2012 Diversity Award was handed over by Ahmad Ghazinadeh, State Secretary in the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, in Oslo on December 4th. “I am very pleased that the Award is going this year to a research institute. SINTEF is a high-competence...
...is a transport boat powered by batteries from solar cells. Over the past five years, researchers and engineers from Norway and Tunisia have worked together on the design, engineering, manufacturing and commissioning of the unique solar-electric boat SOLARIS. The Tunisian-Norwegian cooperation project...