SINTEF made an operating profit of NOK 106 million in 2014, and a pre-tax profit of NOK 143 million. A number of one-off items have had a positive effect on the financial result, but profit from ordinary operations has been inadequate. Gross operating revenues were NOK 2936 million compared with NOK...
Standard Today’s AI is artificial intelligence, but it just talks. It doesn’t make a single decision, and it doesn’t make things happen. We’re talking about ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI and the other AI variants that you hear about all the time. They are just language models. Now a brand...
...production is based on traceable, sustainable raw materials, is the message of our bloggers. It is clear that the environmental impact of biofuels and their costs are mainly dependent on the feedstock that is used to produce the fuel. Most biofuels produced today come from sugar, starch or oil-rich-plants...
The best of both worlds The recipe is a combination of casting and forging. The method is based on an idea from SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, and it is currently being tested out by SINTEF and the Norwegian companies Raufoss Technology and Farsund Aluminium Casting in a four-year collaborative project...
...the help of pictures too. Photo: KIT-AR Standard Research carried out in Trondheim has led to the launch of a new company, now based in both London and Lisbon. The results will be contributing to industrial production all across Europe. “It all began when SINTEF received funding for a project to look...
...is used is similar to the one implemented in Eclipse model, see tutorial polymer note, and Eclipse input format can be used to set the parameters of the polymer model. Here, we present two solvers: runPolymer.m and runLabPolymer.m. The source files for this tutorial can be found here: tutorial-polymer...
...2012. Shared collaboration surfaces to support adequate team decision processes in an integrated operations setting. Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management - Bérenguer, Grall & Guedes Soares (eds). Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-68379-1. Øien, K., Utne, I.B., Herrera, I.A...
Earth's primordial origins and the breakdown of radioactive materials. This heat can be transformed into energy – and there is more than enough to go round. Illustration: Thinkstock. There is an infinite amount of energy lying right beneath our feet. It is a renewable and stable energy source – free...
...have? To ensure a future with the development of solar and wind energy, weather-proof roads and cities around the world, we must be able to make metals in a safe, climate-neutral and responsible way. Of course, we must improve the handling, and reusing or recycling of metal-containing waste, but that...
...first steps have been taken towards rainwear which repairs itself In co-operation with research scientists and industry colleagues in eight countries, Susie Jahren, Stephan Kubowicz and their project team are developing the clothing of the future for professional fishermen. Midway in the EU project...
Norwegian research- and industry groups achieved attention in 2007 when they claimed that wireless sensor networks could help with the lack of effective environmental monitoring in the Arctic. The institutions said it would be smarter to use such networks to get trustworthy, fast information rather than...
...cross-country skiing..?) 15:00-16:30 Lectures 16:30-17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:30 Lectures 20:00- Dinner Lunch is served between 12:30 and 14:00, alternating between a buffet and a hot meal every second day. For those that go skiing, it is also possible to get a ticket/voucher in the hotel reception that can...
...guests staying at Dr. Holms, dinner on Sunday 2nd is at 20:30. Note that everyone must pay their own hotel and/or guest bill upon departure! The costs for rooms are 1 150 NOK for single rooms and 930 NOK for each person in a double room, all meals included. Drinks to all meals at Dr.Holms are not included...
...carbon dioxide in undersea reservoirs. Photo: Kirsten Melum Standard It was the summer of 1986, and Erik Lindeberg, a research scientist in the oil reservoir division at SINTEF, invited his friend and colleague Torleif Holt to his cozy cabin on the shores of Lake Sommen in Sweden. Like good research...
...safely and cost-effectively by pipeline from the capture site to the storage site. by Mona Jacobsen Mølnvik, Reserach Director, SINTEF Energy Research, Svend Tollak Munkejord, Chief Scientist, SINTEF Energy Research Cato Dørum, Senior Scientist, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry If CO2 capture and storage...
...end. The research group is very satisfied, and the EU Commission is handing out praise. SINTEF has coordinated this major programme that rejoices in the long name: “Development of solar-grade silicon feedstock for crystalline wafers and cells by purification and crystallisation”, which has been simplified...
Orbiter" vessel and tested it in the Ocean Basin at the Institute. The model is at the present at the Jules Verne Exhibition in Paris. Illustration: Jacques Rougerie The real vessel will be 52 metres high, with a beam of 15 m. A visionary platform for doing science, drifting partly above and partly beneath...
...fisherman got the idea some years ago. Since then, material scientists from SINTEF – the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia – and industrial designers from Permafrost Design Studio in Oslo have helped him make his idea a reality. The first step into the world market will be the...
...risky business and, according to a recent SINTEF report, working alone on small vessels is the riskiest of all. On Monday, researchers had to add yet another fatality to the gloomy statistics. Stock photo: iStock/Piola666 Standard The fisheries sector is a dangerous profession, and fishers working...
...various kinds of operation precise information on ice cover, ice thickness and ice type/category is essential. Knowledge of the ice regimes is necessary for establishing probable scenarios for testing of equipment at meso-scale and in the field, as well as preparation of a generic oil spill contingency...