Kelasidi. “I thought it would be quite simple and straight forward to use the same technology in aquaculture as in oil and gas, but I got a serious wake-up call during my first visit to a fish farm,” says Eleni Kelasidi. She had a PhD in snake robotics for the oil and gas industry, when she became a researcher...
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 Pettersen Blog The demand for innovative and greener chemical manufacture has been clear for some time and represents...
...later, and Goliat in autumn 2000. The reason for the paucity of discoveries is probably erosion during earlier epochs. “Post-glacial rebound” and erosion have taken place at different times and from a variety of causes. The past ten million years has seen several periods of glacier formation, and their...
...question, their condition, maturity and the cost of the technology”, says Kjetil Midthun at SINTEF. “Then we can generate a database, and after that develop a planning tool designed to reduce costs. The industry and consultancy companies are showing great interest and we have 19 stakeholders participating...
...are important in collision detection and robot navigation. One innovative aspect is to combine rigorous algebraic tools, such as resultant theory and methods from Real Algebraic Geometry, with fast approximate numerical computation, including iterative methods and approximation techniques. We expect that...
...industry will collaborate in the SecurEL research centre over the next eight years to strengthen the power grid, ensuring it can withstand new challenges and support the transition to a net-zero emissions society by 2050. This week marked the launch of SecurEL—a new centre financed by the Norwegian government...
...75 talks, 10 popular- and 7 scientific articles, 10 reports and 1 book chapter have been disseminated, and the knowledge platform has contributed to 55 media articles and produced 4 movies. The project educates 6 PhD and 9 MSc-students. 3 prototypes of seaweed cultivation equipment, a model for kelp...
Infrastructure Fund. The Institute won in fact 10 per cent of the total of MNOK 500 made available. Sixteen laboratories were successful in this funding round, and MARINTEK was one of only three that won MNOK 50 or more. In a comment in connection with the funding results, the Research Council of Norway described...
...basic idea of the MsMFE method is to use a mixed finite-element method on a coarse scale with special basis functions that satisfy local flow problems and thereby account for subgrid variations. This way, an approximate fine-scale solution is constructed at the cost of solving a coarse-scale problem Tutorials...
...human exposure to electromagnetic fields have been considered by a number of international organisations, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Commission for Non-ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). Other relevant organisations are ILO, IRPA, ISO, CENELEC, IEC, CIE, IEEE...
...across the world. But the industry is known for challenges related to safety, both in the form of frequent field accidents, and fish that escape the enclosure. Farmed fish on the loose and the resulting spread of unwanted gene material to vulnerable wild salmon flocks is a known problem. In addition, the aquaculture...
...look in greater detail at whether children and young people in contact with the child welfare system are receiving the health care they need. Stock photo: iStock Standard New research is shedding light on the major challenges and barriers faced by children and young people in the welfare system who need...
...neodymium (Nd) and dysprosium (Dy) is increasing much faster than production. These metals are used in technologies such as the generators that store power in wind turbines, and the electric motors that propel electric and hybrid cars. But they are also used in everyday products like computers and mobile phones...
M. Pal, and K.-A. Lie. A multiscale method for modeling flow in stratigraphically complex reservoirs. SPE J., accepted H. M. Nilsen, K.-A. Lie, and J. R. Natvig. Accurate modelling of faults by multipoint, mimetic, and mixed methods. SPE J., accepted. In journals: K.-A. Lie, J. R. Natvig, and H. M. Nilsen...
Department of Microsystems and Nanotechnology has performed numerous feasibility studies and designed various microdevices, including inertial sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes), gas sensors (microacoustic, photoacoustic, microoptical), a variety of pressure sensors and microfluidic/biomedical elements...
Division of Ghent University, Belgium, focuses its research on the behaviour of ships in shallow and restricted navigation areas (channels, canals, harbours). Research topics are manoeuvring, interaction with banks and other ships, interaction with mud layers, probabilistic access policy. This research is mostly...
A major challenge linked to land-based facilities for fishfarming is the adequate control of microbial conditions and chemical water quality. The project DigRAS will look into this. This is how future land-based fish farms are going to look like. Illustration by AKVA Group Standard In order to promote...
CO2 has become the symbol of human consumption and industrial production. The gas that pours out of cement factory chimneys and belches out of exhaust pipes and combustion plants is the reason behind the biggest environmental challenge of our age. “If we want to inject gas underground or beneath the...
...manufacturing in a high-cost country like Norway is possible, and what it takes to improve global competitiveness. The research centre has had a good start-up period. – I am very pleased to see how our strong consortium of industrial- and academic partners is developing SFI Manufacturing into a vital...
...transport system of the future – and enjoy it! Illustration courtesy of SINTEF Standard The world’s first fully electric high-speed ferry has arrived! It was launched only recently in Stavanger in south-western Norway, where it will be transporting the inhabitants to and from the islands that lie north...