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SINTEF’s work helps safeguard the value of Norwegian gas in the international market. We have world-leading research expertise in natural gas liquefaction, gas transport in demanding areas over long distances and process and component development.

Contact person

Mona Jacobsen Mølnvik
Research Director
930 08 868

Expertise

CCS Value Chain

CCS chains are case and scenario sensitive, and each case often requires individual design for reaching the optimal solution. The main objective is to develop a consistent and transparent methodology and simulation tool for integrated techno-economic and environmental CCS chain assessment. The ambition is to enable selection of the most promising alternatives for CO2 chains and reduce uncertainty by improving knowledge and by developing adequate solutions for managing risk in CCS
Amy Brunsvold
Senior Research Scientist
930 02 419

CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics

The CFD group at SINTEF Energy Research has more than 30 years of experience in performing numerical modelling of chemically reactive processes in laminar and turbulent flows consisting of single-phase (gaseous fuels combustion) or multi-phase (solid fuels combustion) configurations. Depending on the specific needs and time constraints of our customers, we are able to perform numerical simulations that boast a wide range of accuracies, geometric complexity and computational cost.
Andrea Gruber
Senior Research Scientist
905 52 134

CO2 as working fluid for refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pump systems and power cycles

CO2 has gone through a renaissance as refrigerant due to the need to replace the chemical refrigerants with highly negative environmental impact. The main applications where CO2 systems has been commercialized so far are heat pump water heaters (heat pumps for heating of sanitary water), refrigeration systems for supermarkets and within small size commercial refrigeration. SINTEF-NTNU initiated this development in the end of the 1980s. More than 4 million systems are installed to date, corresponding to a turnover of more than 200 billion NOK.
Petter Nekså
Chief Scientist
926 06 519

CO2-capture: Process modelling and simulation

Modelling is important for understand the mechanisms associated with the separation of CO2 from large point sources such as fossil fuel power plants, steel works and similar. Modelling tools can be used for plant design process optimization and system improvement. SINTEF has developed a simulation software package, CO2SIM, for simulation of absorption based CO2 capture, tailored for this purpose.
Finn Andrew Tobiesen
Senior Research Scientist
982 83 947

Hydrogen technology and energy storage

Hydrogen will be an important supplement to electricity as an energy carrier in future sustainable energy systems. In addition to being fuel for the transport sector, hydrogen will contribute to increased utilization of renewable energy sources. The need for energy storage will increase dramatically, and hydrogen will be the preferred option for large amounts of energy, and storage over longer periods.
Steffen Møller-Holst
Vice President - Marketing
926 04 534

Laboratories

CO2 laboratory, Tiller

The CO2 laboratory at Tiller is a highly equipped test facility for development of post-combustion CO2 capture technologies, as well as a research lab for flue gas pre-treatment analysis and emission research.

ECCSEL Norway CCS RI

– the Norwegian node of ECCSEL RI

Gas conversion laboratories

The gas conversion laboratories at SINTEF consists several customizable units for investigating catalytic reactions at industrially relevant conditions. Project activity has been ongoing for more than 30 years in close collaboration with the industry and academia.
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Projects

CleanExport

04 September 2020

Norway's position as an energy-exporting country is changing due to decarbonization of the European energy market. To fulfil the Paris Agreement, CO2 emissions must be reduced in all parts of the energy value chain from generation to end-use. There is a surge to replace fossil-fuelled energy generation with carbon-free alternatives and renewable generation, and a need to ramp up deployment of CO2 capture and storage (CCS). This ongoing transition of the energy system creates both opportunities and challenges for the utilization of Norway's fossil energy and renewable electric power resources.

PredictCUI

28 August 2020

Prediction of water liquid and vapour migration for mitigating corrosion under insulation

ANDWIS

01 March 2021

Big jacket structures on the Norwegian shelf are now reaching the limit of their estimated service life, but new discoveries and improved production methods make prolonged operations desirable. There is therefore an increasing need for underwater condition control for offshore steel platforms, but also in connection with offshore wind and fish farming facilities.
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News

LowEmission's first annual report: A message from the Acting Director

14 April 2020

The LowEmission research Centre is well underway and we are all working towards a common goal – zero emission oil and gas production on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) by 2050.

Updates from the Mont Terri experiment: Studying Caprock and Fault Sealing Integrity

17 October 2018

The geological storage of CO2 is an essential component for enabling the efficient generation of emission-free hydrogen (H2) as a transport fuel. The large volumes of CO2 produced in the natural gas reforming H2 manufacture require a coupling with direct CO2 separation techniques, and safe geological storage.

SINTEF Energy/NTNU article included in prestigious collection

04 June 2018

Ph.D candidate Ailo Aasen has together with myself (his supervisor) and Edgar M. Blokhuis, a research partner at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, published a new article in the well reputed Journal of Chemical Physics.
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