Researcher Andy Booth, SINTEF (behind) and NTNU partner Iurgi Imanol Salaverria-Zabalegui grow algae that will later be "exposed" to micro plastics. Photo: Thor Nielsen. Annually, about 300 million tonnes of plastic are manufactured worldwide and, according the Norwegian Environment Agency, production...
Lundmark Daae The oil industry is heading north. It is said that 30 per cent of remaining gas, and 13 per cent of remaining oil, reserves are to be found in the Arctic. We’re talking about billions. The Snøhvit and Goliat projects are being developed for operation in temperatures of minus 20 degrees. In the...
NaDeNo is developing a safer and more effective treatment for peritoneal cancer by encapsulating anti-cancer cytotoxins in nanoparticle carriers. The illustration shows a cancer cell and the nanoparticle carriers. Stock photo: Shutterstock Standard The company is called NaDeNo and is well underway with the...
Due to the way Li & Lim generated the test instances, the number of tasks in these instances are different and slightly higher than the nominal value. Here you find instance definitions and the best known solutions (to our knowledge) for the 400 tasks instances of Li & Lim's PDPTW benchmark problems...
SINTEF researchers Birgitte McDonagh and Sigurd Wenner in their lab. They have identified an entirely new way of investigating the properties of organic nanoparticles. Their technique may open the door to the development of new types of medicines and materials. Photo: Thor Nielsen Standard “First we...
...the salmon, and carry out the many other tasks essential to the running of a fish farm facility. The wind is bitter and the rain is lashing in from all directions. Sea water is splashing around their feet. Everything they handle is wet. Cold water creeps relentlessly up to their knees and along to their...
...relationship with bacteria. They need us and we need them. We find bacteria everywhere. Most of them are in our digestive tracts, but we also find large numbers on our skin and membranes, and in our saliva. Ideally, bacteria should stay where they belong and this is why we wash our hands after going...
...dTHOR will develop the next generation of a predictive Ship Structural Health Monitoring system based on innovative utilization of sensor measurement and hybrid analysis modelling enabling digital twins with high physical realism. After being selected in July 2022 by the European Commission (EC) under...
Teer Coatings Limited (TCL), Miba Coating Group TCL employs 59 staff in Droitwich, UK. Founded in 1985 TCL was taken over by Miba AG in April, 2010 and is now an integral part of the Miba Coating Group. In total Miba is an almost >€600M turnover, 3800 employee, international company, headquartered in...
Petroleum Research AS Lars Sørum and Rector of NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Torbjørn Digernes today, 8 February. The cores are stored in Dora, which was originally a WWII German submarine bunker in Trondheim, and the plan is to keep them here. The NPD and SINTEF have entered into an...
...complex computational challenges, including in areas such as material development, medicine, and optimization. Two other key areas are more precise sensors and secure communication. Since 2020, SINTEF, NTNU, and the University of Oslo have brought together leading experts in a Gemini Center dedicated to...
...how CO₂ can be captured and stored in order to reduce our emissions. Researchers’ Night is an annual event where students aged 16 to 18 and their teachers are invited to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for an evening of science activities, lab visits and talks. This year was the...
...earbud sound quality responds to movement and how well the buds stay in place during a variety of physical activities. Video by Karoline Ravndal Lorentzen Standard Working up a sweat and racing pulses are all in a day’s work for researchers Tron Vedul Tronstad and Johannes Tjønnås. They’ve just reached...
Sugar kelp farmed on the island of Frøya. This is how the kelp looks after four and a half months of cultivation at sea. Photo: SINTEF Standard “We can break seaweeds down into their basic constituents and recombine them to make useful products”, says researcher Silje Forbord at SINTEF. “We can use...
On 2 and 3 May, 55 participants from seven Europen countries met to discuss the progress in the ELEGANCY project at Petten in the Netherlands. https://blog.sintef.com/sintefenergy/elegancy-progress-meeting-petten/ ...
To make the distribution grid smart it must be based on low-latency and high-reliable bidirectional communications networks https://blog.sintef.com/sintefenergy/energy-systems/5g-digitalization-distribution-grid/ ...
...state of health, and so do these little baby salmon. They also live in water that contains both “good” and “bad” bacteria. SINTEF is about to start studying this microbial environment in order to combat fish disease. Photo: SINTEF Standard SINTEF Researchers Stine Wiborg Dahle (right) and Kari Kihle Attramadal...
The objective within the gAIA II project has been to develop tools for constructing, manipulating and exploiting implicit representations for parametric curves and surfaces based on resultant computations. The work in GAIA has been divided into three parts A survey in four parts addressing: A Resultant...
It is important to organize the project as good as possible, e.g. find key stakeholders and a good distribution of responsibility, so that the project has a clear structure. Another aim of this section is to verify that the CRIOP methodology is the appropriate solution for the specific project. There...
...start at 14.30 on December 7 and finish at 12.00 on December 9. FACE partners may sign up by sending an email to Ragnhild Engen, . Please inform her of: your expected arrival and departure, if you will be attending dinners (there will be two, 7th and 8th) any dietary requirements...