...practice. By Åse Dragland Shipping is an industry which demands continuous training and re-certification of its captains, second and third officers and engineers. Officers should be skilled at navigating their vessels and must assume key roles. However, for many years now our experience of training at sea...
...operations are often carried out by large teams of professionals drawn from different organisations. These teams must maintain high levels of coordination and communication among themselves. Photo: SINTEF/Gry Karin Stimo. Communication is essential during the chaos generated by a fire, earthquake or similar...
...occurrences are currently monitored using fresh seawater samples. The samples provide information about the numbers and diversity of algae species. The problem is that this requires effective logistics and is quite time-consuming. For this reason, the researchers here have developed a new tool that can provide...
...2000: Olaf Stavik (centre) a pioneer in research and industry, visits a company in Vestfold’s microelectronics cluster; then called Alcatel Space Norway, it is now Norspace. Photo: Werner Juvik/SINTEF In the USA and Canada, Olaf Stavik worked in the dawning and rapidly growing field of microelectronics. When...
...artificial heart, and SINTEF is responsible for its 'innards'. Sigurd Moe at SINTEF ICT explains that they have been working with MEMSCAP for the last ten years. "We develop the processes and design of the tiny silicon chips that go into the pressure sensors, and MEMSCAP assembles and packages them in...
...undesirable events, and resilience as its ability to resume its operations or mission after the event has occurred. Vulnerability within logistics chains may be defined as: The properties of a logistics chain; its premises, facilities, handling and transportation equipment, inter- and intra-organizational...
...the reasons is that artificial and powerful greenhouse gas refrigerants have been replaced by natural media. Soon this will also be the case for the raw materials from which our ice cream is made. Combining ventilation with refrigeration The fact is that the freezers and cold counters used to keep food...
Trond Furu, Randi Holmestad. The Correlation Between Intergranular Corrosion Resistance and Copper Content in the Precipitate Microstructure in an AA6005A Alloy. Thronsen, Elisabeth. (2018) The effect of deformation and natural ageing in an Al-Mg-Si-Cu alloy with high Cu-content: A transmission electron...
...world in which everything that you own is numbered and catalogued. All your shoes; every piece of clothing. A world in which nothing can be regarded as private, but where everything can be traced back to you. Take a step further in your thinking and you have a universe in which every movement is also...
...safe and reliable. SINTEF conducts research on how to make CO2 transport as economical, environmentally friendly and safe as possible. A growing need for carbon capture and storage (CCS) requires new CO2 transport solutions, both offshore and onshore. Since CO2 will normally not be captured and stored...
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 significantly. Extractive industries, including refractory...
...from an oil or gas platform may take place using between 10 and 50 wells. To maximise oil recovery the operators must prepare production plans. Production must be balanced to maintain efficiency and prevent the wells from being damaged, and this requires a knowledge of how much each well is producing...
...complex technological operation, and for it to succeed, new methods of care and feeding must be developed. Photo: Thor Nielsen. A few years ago, fish farms in Chile produced enormous numbers of salmon. Now the industry is on its knees as a result of several years of disease and devastation by lice. Also in...
...aquaculture sector can help to reduce waste and at the same time generate wealth by recycling its industrial hard plastics. “We’ve been looking into everything from administrative terms of reference to rules and regulations, the current state of our knowledge and, not least, levels of acceptance within the...
...documentation. Speed improvements through a new optional AD-backend and external linear solvers Module for coupled mechanics and flow Module for compositional simulation Module for geochemistry Module for solvent Numerous updates to examples New modules and features New documentation Efforts has been made to integrate...
...in the fully electric vehicles (FEV). The EU project will last 2011-2014. Work packages WP 1 Application requirements and preliminary specifications WP 2 In vehicle EMF measurements and experimentation of EMF effects WP 3 Sensor feasibility study WP 4 Designs for mitigation: Application of “prudent avoidance...
...gjøre miljøeffektive bygg mer konkurransedyktige. Mads Mysen og Kristin Holthe på SINTEF Byggforsk tror GLITNE vil motivere byggenæringen. Foto: Ståle Andersen/SINTEF Media. Dårlig image Byggenæringen har et dårlig image når det gjelder miljø, og står for hele 40 prosent av den nasjonale miljøbelastingen...
Industry and Fisheries. The group was in Trondheim in connection with the major Tekmar conference, which is held every year by SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture. MARINTEK vice-president Atle Minsaas, gave one of the opening speeches at the conference. Fiskeriminister_gammel_1 The minister and her colleagues...
Lazarevski, Ivan Benc, and Jelena Jurisic. In proceedings of 31st Int. Convention MIPRO, May 26 - 30 2008 in Opatia, Croatia, Croatian Society for Information and Communication Technology,Electronics and Microelectronics, 2008. Abstract: The number of cognitively impaired and elderly is rapidly increasing...
Highlights of MRST 2023b The new release comes with some improvements in functionality and minor bug fixes. In particular we would like to highlight the following: Our GitHub has migrated to https://github.com/SINTEF-AppliedCompSci. This is the address of our official github mirror that offers an easy...