Energy-Efficient Future

The SINTEF Conference for Smarter Energy Use

Energitirsdag Arendalsuka 2024

Energitirsdag under Arendalsuka er en dag i regi av SINTEF Energi som er fylt med faglig påfyll og diskusjoner mellom forskere, bransjen og politikere rundt hvordan vi kan løse mange av de store energiutfordringene vi står overfor.

HighEFF Final Consortium Meeting

Welcome to the Final Consortium Meeting in HighEFF 29.-30. May!

FME HighEFF invites you to its Energy Efficiency Conference 2024 in Trondheim

At this conference, we will be updated on Norway's commitments at COP28 (the UN Climate Summit), specifically those commitments that are related to energy efficiency, and how increased utilisation of the available energy will contribute to achieving these goals.

Webinar: Evaluation of turbo compressor performance for a water based HTHP to be utilized in solar assisted heat supply

Heating demands in the Norwegian industry are still to a large degree covered via fossil fuel sources, such as natural gas or oil, or using inefficient electric heaters and boilers.

HighEFF short course on Industrial Energy Recovery

This one-day course (with lectures and voluntary assignments) will be arranged at Scandic Bakklandet from 08:30 to 16:00.

Webinar: Preliminary Testing and Simulations of Pot Integrated Abart (PIA) at Alcoa Mosjøen

As most electrolysis pots in an aluminium potline will have different rates of fluoride losses, while the secondary alumina from the GTC will contain an average fluorine content an imbalance will occur over time leading to instability and require corrections by additions of fluoride or removal of excess bath. The development of the Pot Integrated Abart (PIA) technology from REEL will address this issue by having dedicated dry scrubbers for each pot. A research PIA unit has currently been built and testing was started at Alcoa Mosjøen in Q4 2022.

Webinar: COP28 global stocktake, pledges, F-gas directive, PFAS - how it links to HighEFF activities and energy efficiency in industry

Currently there are a lot of input relevant to our activity in HighEFF from COP28, new EU-directives and corresponding national and international activities. The presentation will try to summarize some of it, and put it in perspective.

Webinar: Espen Wefring, Hydro - Nothing is possible

The session will present how Hydro intend to decarbonize primary aluminium production. The HalZero concept will be presented as part of the pathway towards production of aluminium with zero CO₂-emissions.

Webinar: FME cEFF - Norwegian research Centre for industrial energy EFFiciency

In this webinar, Petter Røkke will present the FME initiative cEFF that was recently submitted, and answer any questions you might have regarding the continuation of HighEFF and the cEFF initiative.

Webinar: Industrial energy transition

Julia Jimenez Romeiro will present her work as a HighEFF PhD student. Industrial energy transition: Optimization-based framework for sustainable design of utility systems

HighEFF Cross-Sector Workshop 2023

Welcome to HighEFF Cross-Sector Workshop 2023.

Webinar: Highlights from SFI Metal Production

Aud Wærnes will present highlights from the research centre SFI Metal production which finishes this year, with particular focus on results relevant for or in collaboration with FME HighEFF.

Potential for surplus-heat-to-power conversion in current and future aluminium production process with off-gas recycling

HighEFF research has included novel production processes and modifications, which can have significant side-effects that alter conditions for energy recovery.

Energy efficiency in the dairy industry: Rørosmeieriet

Dairy processing is energy intensive and require both heating and cooling – perfect for integrated heat pumps!

Webinar: CFD-model based design for improved components in CO₂ refrigeration systems

We kick off the HighEFF webinar series this fall with a talk from former HighEFF PhD student Knut Emil Ringstad

Webinar: Geothermal power production in Norway?

Why doesn't geothermal energy get more attention in the debate about future green energy sources?

Hvordan hente ut 20 TWh fra industrien?

Norsk industri har et stort potensiale for energieffektivisering. Lær om mulighetene og hvordan dette gjøres i et gratis lunsjwebinar.

Webinar: Regulatory implications for uses of CO‐rich off‐gas from ferromanganese production

In this webinar, Tuva Grytli will talk about the fast-changing world of European regulations relevant to ferromanganese production, as outlined in a coming HighEFF report.

HighEFF 2023 Annual Consortium meeting

On Thursday 4 May, we will host the internal part of the meeting, for all HighEFF partners, held in English.

Energieffektivisering: Slik vil industrien frigjøre 20 TWh konfliktfri energi

Siden 2016 har studenter, forskere og industri jobbet sammen i forskningssenteret HighEFF for å redusere spesifikt energibruk i industriens produksjonsprosesser.

Webinar: Integrated CO₂ heat pumping systems for hotels

Welcome to this HighEFF webinar where Silje Marie Smitt, finished HighEFF PhD student, will give the talk Integrated CO₂ heat pumping systems for hotels.

Webinar: SiO Reactivity and Energy Consumption During Si/FeSi Production

Increasing the conversion of carbon in the raw materials to silicon carbide before entering the furnace hot zone can increase the silicon yield.

Webinar: State of Charge of PCM-based thermal batteries

The webinar is based on the HighEFF NEIC project SOCTES. Thermal storage is a key ingredient in the making of a sustainable society with increased energy efficiency and implementation of renewables. Knowing the state of charge of the storage is essential for efficient and flexible utilization of such devices.

Webinar: Thermochemical storage: Opportunities and challenges to enable decarbonisation

Thermochemical Energy Storage is a promising technology with great potential to enable decarbonization. It has higher energy storage capacity than other alternatives such as sensible or latent heat storage systems, but still has some research gaps to be addressed before its commercialization.

HighEFF Webinar: Bruk av overskuddsvarme inn i det grønne skiftet

Bjørn Saugestad, Plant Manager at Elkem Thamshavn, will give the webinar "Bruk av overskuddsvarme inn i det grønne skiftet." The webinar will be in Norwegian.

Webinar: SkaleUP - Industrial HTHP for simultaneous cooling and heating

In this webinar, Christian Schlemminger presents the main results from development and operation of a high temperature heat pump for low grade waste heat utilisation and upgrade of HighEFF Spin-off SkaleUP.

Webinar: Experimental analysis of the HighEFFLab NH₃-H₂O combined absorption-compression heat pump (CACHP) test rig

Welcome to this webinar where HighEFF PhD student Khalid Hamid, will give a talk about experimental analysis.

Webinar: Biochar from Seaweed for Metal Production

We start the new year with a special edition of the HighEFF Webinar.

Webinar: Launch event for white paper on Thermal Energy Storage

The "ordinary" webinar the coming week will be cancelled, but as a replacement we would like to recommend the web based launch event for the White paper "Industrial Thermal Energy Storage – Supporting the transition to decarbonise industry". This is arranged by the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) and their Joint Programme Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes (JP EEIP).

White paper launch: Industrial Thermal Energy Storage

Launch of the European Energy Research Alliance Joint Programme for Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes white paper on “Industrial Thermal Energy Storage – Supporting the transition to decarbonise industry”.

Webinar - KSP project: LEAN-Low Energy Anodes for Sustainable Electrowinning

In the LEAn project NTNU and SINTEF collaborate with Glencore Nikkelverk (copper, nickel, and cobalt), Boliden Odda (zinc) and Permascand (catalysts) to reduce the energy consumption by developing catalytic layers relying on readily available and abundant elements. Catalysts that reduce the energy consumption by as much as 15 percent are currently available in the new copper electrolysis plant at Glencore Nikkelverk. However, these rely on scarce and expensive elements which severely limit their use.

Webinar: Future Silicon production – from incremental improvements to radical changes

The industry will go through major changes to achieve greener production. In this webinar, Professor Merete Tangstad will review some of the technologies relevant for the Si process.

Webinar: New White Paper release: Industrial Thermal Energy Storage - Supporting the transition to decarbonise industry

A group of research experts on Thermal Energy Storage (TES) was assembled by the Energy Efficiency section of EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) to write a White Paper focusing on how Thermal Energy Storage can support the transition to decarbonise industry.

HighEFF Cross-Sector Workshop 2022

We are pleased to invite all consortium members to HighEFF Cross-Sector Workshop 19-20 October.

HighEFF Workshop – Competitive surplus heat recovery – How to get from knowledge building to practical and attractive demonstrators

We hereby invite you to the HighEFF WP3.1 and WP4.2 workshop " Competitive surplus heat recovery – how to get from knowledge building to practical and attractive demonstrators ".

Webinar: Optimal operation and control of thermal energy systems

This webinar gives an overview on the thesis with the title "Optimal operation and control of thermal energy systems". The work deals with a wide range of subjects from operation and control of steam cycles to systematically derived feedforward control applied to heat exchangers or steam networks and to inventory control problems such as thermal energy storage.

Webinar: Energy efficiency-ing - How an energy efficient world is produced through practices, objects, rhetoric, and politics

Welcome to this HighEFF webinar where Researcher Jens Petter Johansen will give a talk based on his PhD dissertation.

Life and work of Gustav Lorentzen – A giant within the refrigeration and heat pump field

This presentation is to honor Gustav Lorentzen's memory and to inform about the important contributions he made to Norway and the scientific world in large.

Webinar: Energy Efficiency Measures in Fish Meal Processing

In this webinar, August Brækken will outline the results from an evaluation of the potential for increased energy efficiency in fish meal processing plants through the use of direct heat exchange and high temperature heat pumps. This enables utilisation of waste heat from the drying processes and a reduction in the use of fossil fuels.

Webinar: Gradient-based optimization of Rankine cycles

Focus on numerical aspects for analysing the most employed technology for generating electricity. Application for optimizing the design and operation of a Rankine cycle that converts industrial surplus heat to power

Workshop: Energieffektivisering i bygg og industri

Det er en glede å invitere til workshop om energikrisen i Europa i regi av NTVA, DNVA, FME NTRANS, FME ZEN, FME Cineldi, FME HydroCEN, FME HighEFF og Multiconsult.

Webinar: Using low temperature surplus heat – the concept of an "Agricluster"

The Norwegian industry is emitting a significant amount of the used energy as heat to the environment. Unfortunately, most of the heat has a low temperature resulting in problems in utilizing said heat. In this presentation, we propose using said low temperature surplus heat in an integrated fashion in the food production sector.

Overskotsvarme frå industrien gir muligheter for auka bærekraftig verdiskaping

Bli med oss når vi utforskar dei moglegheitene overskotsvarme frå industrien gir til berekraftig matproduksjon og auka verdiskaping.

HighEFF Making Norwegian industry the world's greenest

FME HighEFF would like welcome everyone interested to a one-day seminar on industrial energy efficiency.

HighEFF Annual Consortium Meeting 2022

Welcome to the 2022 Annual Consortium meeting! This year, we appreciate being able to ask you to join us in Trondheim for three days dedicated to Energy Efficiency in Industry.

Energiproduksjon og bruk i Norge

Bakgrunnen for denne serien av workshoper er perioden med svært høye energipriser i Europa som også har forplantet seg til høye strømpriser i Norge og store prisforskjeller mellom regioner.

Webinar: From factory fume to fish feed

The Green platform project AlgScaleUP will secure the technological platform needed for scaling up the production of microalgae at Finnfjord AS ferrosilicon plant. Through utilizing emission gases and heat surplus in a circular loop, the ambition of AlgScaleUP is to achieve a sustainable production of microalgae that can be applied as salmon feed.

Webinar: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Mitigation of Climate Change

For this webinar, we have invited Professor Anders Hammer Strømman from NTNU to present the main findings and messages from the most recent IPCC report. Professor Strømman is currently serving as a lead author to the working group three of the sixth assessment report of the IPCC. On a daily basis he teaches graduate courses in Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental input-output analysis for the students of the Industrial Ecology and Energy & Environment study programs at NTNU.

Webinar: Managing multiple goals in university-industry collaboration

A key challenge in university-industry collaborations is the partners’ multiple and potentially conflicting goals. This multiplicity of goals can in worst case hamper the collaboration, because the establishment of goals often determines which actions are undertaken. Firms and university partners may disagree on the course of actions to achieve these various goals. Therefore, the collaborative partners need to find a way to manage these different and potentially conflicting goals. This presentation will focus on how multiple goals in research centers can be managed to ensure attainment of mutually beneficial outcomes for the partners involved, at various levels of the collaboration. The presentation is based on qualitative interviews with firm and university partners in FME centers, including FME HighEFF.

Webinar: The role of thermal energy storage in the decarbonization of process industry

Two thirds of industrial energy use is in the form of thermal energy, and most of this energy demand is still covered with fossil fuels. In order to mitigate the climate change, rapid decarbonization of industrial process heat production is required – and the fastest way for decarbonization is through electrification using high-temperature heat pumps or electric boilers. This presentation will explain the role of thermal energy storage in as a key enabler for decarbonization of process industry, and present relevant case studies and results from FME HighEFF.

Webinar: Seven ways of greener Aluminium

Weight savings provided by the light metal aluminum will help the world reach the 2050 target of zero net emissions of greenhouse gases. The demand is increasing, however emissions from production need to be drastically reduced. In this talk, Samuel Senanu will show us seven ways to greener production of this important material.

Recycling of Pot Gas from AIuminium Electrolysis Cells II

Workshop for HighEFF partners

HighEFF Cross-Sector workshop 2021

We are pleased to invite all consortium members to the 2021 edition of the HighEFF Cross-Sector Workshop 19-21 October.

HighEFF PhD/Post Doc seminar

HighEFF is starting up again its annual PhD Seminar after the pandemic. The seminar will be a physical event in auditorium KJEL-5 at NTNU on Thursday 19 August from 09:00 to 16:00.

Overskuddsvarme som tiltak mot global oppvarming – kan skape nytt næringsliv i Norge

Visste du at Norge har over 20 TWh overskuddsvarme fra norsk industri?

HighEFF Annual Consortium Meeting 2021

The Annual Consortium meeting will present selected highlights from HighEFF research. Executive Board meeting and General Assembly meeting will be held in connection to the event.

International Webinar on Practicality and Applicability of Natural Working Fluids

This webinar is designed to disseminate knowledge of eco-friendly CO₂ technology infrastructure & business models for end-of-life for refrigerants, as proposed to Indian policy makers to support India’s domestic and international environmental friendly cooling priorities & lowering of HFC emissions.

Webinar - Strengthening Industrial Heat Pump Innovation in Europe

In this webinar we will discuss in more detail the outcome of the whitepaper that was published this summer to highlight the importance of Industrial Heat Pump technologies in reaching the goals of the Climate Agreement.

FME HighEFF Cross-Sector Workshop 2020

We are pleased to invite all consortium members to the 2020 edition of the HighEFF Cross-Sector Workshop 21-22 October.

HighEFF Workshop on Thermal Energy Storage

This workshop will gather the industry and research partners within HighEFF with special interest towards thermal energy storage (TES).

HighEFF Annual Consortium Meeting 2020 - Webinar

Dear HighEFF friends, welcome to this year's HighEFF Annual Consortium Meeting on 13 May - HighEFF Webinar!

Postponed - Welcome to HighEFF PhD/Post Doc seminar

Postponed - HighEFF Short course - Analysis and design of industrial energy recovery systems

The event is for HighEFF partners only.

Tekna besøker HighEFF

Tekna besøker forskningssenteret HighEFF, senter for energieffektiv og konkurransedyktig industri for fremtiden.

HighEFF Cross-sector workshop

The HighEFF consortium will gather in Trondheim in October to discuss the plans for 2018, and to be updated on highlights and expectations.

Workshop for kommunikaterer i HighEFF

HighEFF Cross-sector workshop

HighEFF invites all consortium members to the HighEFF Cross-Sector workshop on 23-24 October 2019.

HighEFF Energy recovery workshop: Practical vs. Academic approach to improving heat-to-power conversion

Open HighEFF Workshop - WP 4

HighEFF Workshop RA 4 Applications, WP 4.1: Reaction modelling in a furnace

Presentations from FME HighEFF Annual Consortium Meeting 2019

The first day, 8 May, was open to everyone who would like to come. The second day, 9 May, was by invitation only.

PhD/Post.Doc seminar HighEFF

The seminar will take place at NTNU - EPT, Room C201

Webinar: Zero net energy supermarkets: towards a sustainable future

FME HighEFF Cross-sector workshop 2018

The HighEFF consortium will gather in Trondheim in October to discuss the highlights and plans for 2019.

FME HighEFF - Annual Consortium Meeting 2018

HighEFF Cross-sector workshop

The HighEFF consortium will gather in Trondheim in October to discuss the plans for 2018, and to be updated on highlights and expectations.

International Workshop on High Temperature Heat Pumps

We invite researchers and practitioners to join a one-day workshop to disseminate and discuss the potentials, the technology, the energy system and the research and development trends in the field.

Energiforskningskonferansen 2017

TEKNOLOGIOPTIMIST - HVOR FORT GÅR DET EGENTLIG?

HighEFF workshop - Metal, Material and Industry Clusters

Workshop on Energy Efficiency - Metals, Materials and Industry Clusters sector.

HighEFF Workshop - Food and Chemical Sector

Workshop on Energy Efficiency- Case Studies in the Food and Chemical Sector.