SINTEF Industry news

On 27 January 2023, Danish Ambassador to Norway Louise Bang Jespersen visited SINTEF’s offices in Trondheim to discuss SINTEF’s activities in hydrogen and CCS.

The Moon’s atmosphere is entirely devoid of oxygen. If humans want to stay there for extended periods, it will be of great benefit to make breathable oxygen there instead of having to transport it from Earth. But is this at all possible?

Elinor Batteries and SINTEF have entered into a Memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation, aiming to establish a giga-scale factory for production of sustainable batteries in Central Norway.

In the Horizon Europe project ReSoURCE, SINTEF and Norsk Elektro Optikk scientists, together with partners from five countries, develop a sensor-based system for the recycling of refractory products , striving to reduce Europe’s carbon emissions...

Trondheim, 8 December 2022: a letter of intent has been signed between SINTEF and Sustainable Energy that will guarantee Norwegian industry access to relevant research and testing infrastructure. This will be necessary for realising the green shift.

Solar energy is good news for planet Earth – but solar panels are not as climate-friendly as they should be. Researcher Martin Bellmann is using what he calls the ‘black gold’ waste materials from solar panel manufacture to make new panels.

Not only are they high above us – they also offer us great benefits. From SINTEF’s new solar panel laboratory, you can see all across the city of Trondheim. Here, conditions are optimal for research into solar panel performance at Nordic latitudes.

New EU project will help reduce CO₂ from industrial clusters and hubs in Europe using carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS).

The fishing and aquaculture industry in Norway has larger CO₂ emissions than civil aviation, according to a new report (link in Norwegian) presented by ZeroKyst at Nor-Fishing 2022.