...not sound particularly exciting to the uninitiated, but it has helped bring huge revenues to Norway. And a Norwegian company is the world leader in the field. Dynamic positioning enables platforms and ships to hold their position in the sea without any anchor or line. (Photo: Statoil) Click to open Readers...
..."We know that oil spills happen – and that they will happen again", says Roman Netzer, a researcher and biologist at SINTEF. "We also know that this can have a major negative impact on the natural environment. This is why we've been studying a series of chemical and biological analytical techniques to...
...specialist in nanomedicines and analytical chemistry. Photo: Ridofranz/iStock Standard In a recent survey, 24 percent of Norwegian nurses said that they do not want to be vaccinated against Covid-19. This is a high number, especially considering that these are healthcare personnel, and there is every reason...
Samples of rock from the subsurface of Manhattan are being sent to Trondheim on a regular basis. New York is extending its subway system and renewing its water supply - and both projects are getting help from SINTEF. A cross-section of the ground below New York. On the left is the subway, 30 - 50 feet below...
Norway’s government has stated that all feed for farmed fish and livestock must come from sustainable sources by 2034. The declaration came in August when sustainable feed was determined to be one of two social missions in Norway. Photo: Shutterstock / NTB Viewpoints The fastest growing production...
ESA project was launched in the summer of 2016, and will be completed in May of next year. It is part of ESA's PRODEX programme, carried out jointly with the Norwegian Space Centre. The project is called "Snake Robots for Space Applications" (SAROS) and builds on results from an extended collaboration...
...surroundings. Researchers equipped the children, aged between 8 and 12, with special glasses (a Tobii Pro eye tracking system), before giving them various exercises to complete on their bikes. Sensors in the glasses record the children’s eye movements and attention allocation at frequencies of 50 times per second...
June 2000, causing a fire and a serious oil release. Photo: Mads Aas, Statnett “Transformer failures have cost human lives when things have gone seriously wrong,” says Håkon Nordhagen, a SINTEF materials specialist. Large oil filled transformers are found in all power and switching stations, as well...
Tops and branches from tree-felling sites are reborn in the laboratory as compact pellets. However, the energy industry will not act until the price is right. We have all seen it when we walk in the forest after the lumberjacks have been there. When the logging machinery moves on, what it usually...
A bed has a particularly high carbon footprint and often ends up as waste after a few years. A team of researchers from SINTEF and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) addressed the problem and obtained some encouraging results. Standard “We’ve revealed the total environmental...
...this autumn because Canal+ had problems with its servers? ”The systems experienced much greater loads than they could handle,” claim Gunnar Brataas and Richard Sanders at SINTEF ICT. The problems arose because the operators had neither sufficient control of the maximum load nor of how many resources...
Petter Bae Brandtzæg According to a Norwegian study, 'likes' on Facebook are providing a new type of humanitarian support and social responsibility. Petter Bae Brandtzæg and Ida Maria Haugstveit at SINTEF have been mapping the habits of more than 400 Facebook users recruited from Plan Norge’s Facebook...
...country, it's between 42 and 47%. In Fiskeribladet in October 2023, Lise Gulbrandsen wrote about the Cleanup Report and how 800,000 volunteers participated in cleaning up litter in Norway in 2022. She calls for a national monitoring program to map littering. This is good – and can be seen in connection...
...order to facilitate a greater number of and more efficient industrial clusters. The goal is that the co-location of these clusters can contribute to a better use of excess energy, thereby enabling companies to operate in a way that is both more energy efficient and profitable. Each industrial process experiences...
Escapes of fish have long been a problem for the aquaculture industry. But now, improvements in technology and systematic research have drastically reduced the number of escapes. Aqualine AS recently invited all its partners to MARINTEK's Ocean Laboratory, where they could follow tests of a model of...
Pink and insidious: a tiny animal has become an expensive neighbour for fish farmers. Now scientists intend to make it hot for the little pest, and without using toxic chemicals. The scientific name of the little hydroids is Ectopleura larynx. (In Norwegian they are known as “spring flowers”.) These...
...given up, and believed that these beads could only be made in weightless conditions. In space. But a Norwegian inventor disproved that. Today, the beads are saving cancer patients and giving us advanced electronics. Among other things. Photo: SINTEF Standard Jan Kai Nymoen was 30 years old and worked...
Advanced Polymers, Solvay Padanaplast and SolVin PVDC. Solvay Specialty Polymers is now mainly focused on different special materials such as: Fluorinated Polymers, Aromatic Polymers, High-Barrier Polymers and Compounds. The Company has its own major competences and is vertically integrated thanks to unique...
...speed up data integration and optimization workflows, aid in interactive planning, and improve management decisions. High relevance of the proposed research is ensured through the research group's portfolio of industry projects, through (inter)national academic collaboration, and through participation in...
...open ocean located far from land off the Trøndelag coast in mid-Norway. Photo: SINTEF. Standard Seaweeds have a remarkable ability to absorb CO2, and, according to Jorunn Skjermo, who is a research scientist at SINTEF, we ought to be learning how to exploit this process. “Our current plans for emission...