Inside the wind and rain chamber. From the left: Åsmund Strandgård (Isola), Vilde Frafjord Tungesvik and Julie Waaler (NTNU), Snorre Bjørkum (Norgeshus) and Jørgen Young (Isola). Photo: Kathrine Nitter Standard A milder climate with more wind and rain is proving difficult for our houses. But research...
...license was granted and now the first seaweed seedlings have been deployed. The offshore facility will be used, among other purposes, to test how large-scale kelp cultivation can become a cost-effective and sustainable ocean-based carbon removal solution. The search for effective and sustainable solutions...
CO2Flow is designed to develop new models for the simulation and prediction of CO2 flow behaviour in pipelines. Norway plans to inject CO2 gas into storage reservoirs using a network of wells. The gas will be obtained from a variety of sources and will contain a variety of different contaminants. The research...
...is a transport boat powered by batteries from solar cells. Over the past five years, researchers and engineers from Norway and Tunisia have worked together on the design, engineering, manufacturing and commissioning of the unique solar-electric boat SOLARIS. The Tunisian-Norwegian cooperation project...
...active in working life than Norwegian women, and less than men with an immigrant background. However, this does not mean that Norwegians’ perceptions of immigrant women as a homogeneous, passive group are correct. Data collected by SINTEF researchers Berit Berg and Tove Håpnes show that many immigrant women...
...most levels of the organisation. The 2012 Diversity Award was handed over by Ahmad Ghazinadeh, State Secretary in the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, in Oslo on December 4th. “I am very pleased that the Award is going this year to a research institute. SINTEF is a high-competence...
...research is devoted to porous materials and reaction engineering. Over many decades the institute has been leading in tailoring and optimizing micro- and mesoporous materials such as zeolites or metal-organic frameworks for applications in industrial adsorption and catalysis. Catalytic measurements are...
SINTEF is to lead the EU’s latest research project on CO2 capture in coal- and gas-fired power stations. The project involves 14 partners from eight different countries, and has a total budget of more than twice the Norwegian parliament’s annual funding for research of this sort. The EU’s DECARBit...
...caverns, colours and patterns. Photo: Henrik Undeland, Ramböll Click to open In a previous study carried out by SINTEF, as many as 40 per cent of the older age-group said that they felt extremely insecure driving in tunnels. They spoke of walls and road lanes that seemed to shrink, and of a feeling of...
CO2 a year. China has the biggest cement industry in the world, but most of its production is based on outdated technology, and since its plants are coal-fired, emissions of CO2 and dust are huge. The cement industry alone discharges 1.1 billion tonnes of CO2 a year, 26 times as much as Norway's total CO2...
...new EU funded project aims to develop better and more cost-effective components for fuel cell systems, which will make the systems more efficient and reliable for heavy-duty vehicles and other mobility sectors. As the world moves towards a more sustainable and greener future, hydrogen stands out as a key...
The term ’flow diagnostics’ as used herein, refers to a set of simple and controlled numerical flow experiments that are run to probe a reservoir model, establish connections and basic volume estimates, and quickly provide a qualitative picture of the flow patterns in the reservoir. The methods can also...
Ocean Acidification is a global problem with profoundly negative environmental, social and economic consequences for ocean industries, and there is a need to ensure a coordinated governance effort to directly address it. The oceans are absorbing a relevant part (about 45%) of anthropogenic emissions...
An EU-funded project aims to achieve sustainable production of silicon and manganese by developing a new production method using renewable hydrogen and carbon recycling. Hydrogen derived from renewable energy sources is expected to play a significant role in reducing carbon emissions in a large portion...
...modelling of fish behaviour and physiology in aquaculture. Potential application areas for such models include predictive tools for production planning and model-based in silica estimation of e.g. biomass in sea-cages. Background The environment facing a fish in a sea-cage is complex, and consists of both natural...
... This new means of delivering drugs has already been successfully tested on mice and rats and, according to researchers at SINTEF, could open the way for entirely new treatments of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. SINTEF researchers have developed a new nanocapsule that exploits the...
...contains routines and data structures for creating and manipulating grids, petrophysical data, and global drive mechanisms such as gravity, boundary conditions, source terms, and wells. The core also contains an implementation of automatic differentiation (you write the formulas and specify the independent...
...implementing algorithms for CAD-systems it is desirable to both use parametric and implicit representations of curves and surfaces to make good algorithms. E.g., when intersecting two parametric curves of degree two or higher, p(s) and r(t), only using the parametric form will resulting in finding the zero...
...market and wind farm operators who will have to deal with the variability and uncertainty in the wind power generation in their scheduling and trading decisions. Numerical wind power forecasting has been identified as an important tool to address the increasing variability and uncertainty and to more...
Construction of piecewise polynomial function spaces, interpolation and projection operators, and approximation properties. Finite element discretization of elliptic problems and derivation of linear system of equations, applications to heat conduction and elasticity. Basic a priori error estimates. Stabilized finite...