The lack of coordinated global regulation of plastics with drivers such as increasing production and poor waste management continue to bring vast amounts of plastic pollution into our environments. Plastics are transboundary with often a complex value chain in production, use and waste handling and...
The behaviour of the Herschel-Bulkley parameters as function of temperature is shown for an oil-based drilling fluid. It is shown how these parameters vary if a dimensionless shear rate is used. These parameters are easily tabulated. It is also shown a lesser degree of usability of the...
Plant biomass is a promising substrate for biorefinery, as well as a source of bioactive compounds, platform chemicals, and precursors with multiple industrial applications. These applications depend on the hydrolysis of its recalcitrant structure. However, the effective biological degradation of...
We present a fractality study performed in southern Norway ( E, N) using 12,892 low-magnitude intraplate seismic events. The earthquakes were recorded by the Norwegian National Seismic Network (NNSN) between the years 1980–2021. We calculated the multifractal spectrum dimension considering its...
Norway has a well-established seaweed industry based on extraction of alginates from wild harvested brown algae, Laminaria hyperborea (LH). However, further expansion of wild harvest is limited, and cultivated seaweed can contribute to meeting increasing demands for high value compounds in an...
Hydrogen has the potential to make countries energetically self-sufficient and independent in the long term. Nevertheless, its extreme combustion properties and its capability of permeating and embrittling most metallic materials produce significant safety concerns. The Hydrogen Incidents and...
The project will study cancer incidence using register data and exposure estimates, and describe penetration of toxic smoke particles, gases and vapours in small-scale scenarios and in real fire scenarios. In addition, thermoregulatory responses in male and female firefighters will be studied. This...
We introduce adaptive sampling methods for stochastic programs with deterministic constraints. First, we propose and analyze a variant of the stochastic projected gradient method, where the sample size used to approximate the reduced gradient is determined on-the-fly and updated adaptively. This...