Accurate monitoring of microalgae cultures is crucial for long-term research on monocultures as well as for industrial scale-up processes, where maintaining culture quality directly impacts the consistency and success of the final product. Traditional microscope-based counting and sizing is labor...
Standardization committees and their chairs sit at the center of standard development, and have influence over the standards’ scope, level of ambition, and framing. However, little is known about how the standard chairs themselves conceptualize and develop the standards. Situated in the literature...
The increasing urgency of the energy transition drives the interest in demand-side flexibility to alleviate grid congestion and facilitate greener electrification. This work introduces the Smart Grid-Interactive Efficient Building (SGEB) assessment to evaluate demand-side flexibility in buildings...
Reliable data on indoor air quality (IAQ) is essential for design and operation of energy-efficient and healthy residential buildings. This work introduces a standardized methodology to systematically compile, process, and analyze IAQ measurement data, enabling the creation of a harmonized IAQ...
Metals are essential for the green transition and to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The are used in energy supply, transportation, IT and digital technologies, buildings and infrastructure and health care, among others. The Norwegian metals industry is a key supplier of...
Corrosion-induced degradation remains a major challenge in offshore wind energy, impacting reliability, safety, and operational expenditure throughout asset lifecycles. As the sector moves toward larger turbines and deeper installations, substructures are becoming more complex, combining dissimilar...
The presentation introduces the transformative potential of unifying Distributed Computing with Swarm Intelligence through shared, open frameworks and platforms, and examines research and innovation trends to identify where distinct technologies, such as decentralised computing, swarm intelligence...
Materials circularity and zero-emission metal production are closely tied together, as increased circularity is one way of reducing the emissions associated with metal production. Norway is a key supplier of metals and critical raw materials to the European Union. Its metal industry has been leading...
The presentation outlines the evolving reference architecture needed to support the next generation of edge AI, moving beyond simple data processing to complex edge reasoning. It explores the convergence of novel heterogeneous solutions that optimise the hardware-software-AI-data quad required to...
Hydrogen is the leading candidate for achieving the goal of decarbonization and making countries energy-independent in the long term. However, spreading hydrogen in different sectors faces various issues, including safety: its flammability characteristics and the ability to permeate and embrittle...
Buildings are responsible for a significant part of global energy consumption and represent an important source of flexibility for future energy systems. As electricity grids move toward higher levels of renewable generation, upgrading buildings to become active, responsive, and grid-interactive...
Cloud computing has become an increasingly popular choice for businesses and individuals due to its flexibility, scalability, and convenience; however, the rising cost of cloud resources has become a significant concern for many. The payper-use model used in cloud computing means that costs can...
This paper focuses on the design and effectiveness of adaptive automation in Safety-critical systems. Our perspective is to focus on the human agent in the system as part of the Meaningful Human Control (MAS) project, pivoting on how humans will be accounted for in system design to enhance human...
In this work an OpenFOAM-based framework to simulate the evolution of microsilica, which is an important byproduct in the silicon/ferrosilicon industries, is proposed. The framework decouples the combustion reaction of CO and SiO from the microsilica generation based on the assumption that the...
The paper proposes a novel medium-term scheduling model for a hydropower system composed by a pumped storage hydropower plant connected to a traditional hydropower plant subject to three types of environmental constraints; these deal with the maximum water abstraction from the reservoir thought the...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are naturally present in raw materials used as a binder in prebaked anodes for electrolysis of aluminum. Green anodes are baked to about 1200 °C through a cycle of 14–17 days where organic hydrocarbon volatiles contribute to the carbonization process. Off...
In this paper, we extend the pragmatic model for alumina feeding, presented in Johansen et al. Light metals 2022, to treat the associated evolution of bath temperature. The underlying idea of the framework is to reduce its computational overhead to allow for very fast simulation of the dissolved...
Zooplankton are key ecological components of the marine food web. Currently, laboratory-based methods of zooplankton identification are manual, time-consuming, prone to human error and require expert taxonomists. Therefore, alternative methods are needed. In this study, we describe, implement and...
Modelling of the energy system in the countries surrounding the North Sea is performed with a focus on Norway and offshore wind farms situated in the North Sea. The geographically heterogeneous consumption and production distribution in Norway warrants a disaggregation of the country into separate...
Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) have become increasingly popular in urban areas due to their potential to provide zero-emission energy in buildings. BIPVs enable the use of MO of photovoltaic (PV) modules, resulting in multiple generation peaks throughout the day, which can closely match...