...of the System Safety group holds a PhD degree within telecommunications. Due to the educational background and long-time experience with safety assessment services within the railway and oil and gas sectors, the following research areas are of particular interest to the System Safety group: Safety – security...
...closely resemble real data while preserving privacy and confidentiality. Our expertise lies in developing advanced methods for synthetic data generation, including techniques based on generative models such as GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) and VAEs (Variational Autoencoders). These methods ensure...
Biomass is the only renewable carbon source and can therefore be used for production of renewable fuels and chemicals. Biofuels are foreseen as a promising alternative to today's fossil fuels, given their potential to substitute fossil fuels in the existing energy supply infrastructure. In contrast,...
...high voltage apparatuses are very attractive, especially for new and high-power demand applications when placed in locations which are difficult to access and in harsh environments. Applications include offshore wind farms, subsea grid and equipment located in the Arctic. Failure of such apparatuses may...
We need knowledge to solve the challenges related to marine littering and pollution. SINTEF Center for Clean Ocean Research is working to increase knowledge about and prevent the spreading and environmental consequences of microplastic in the World's oceans. Read more about plastics in the ocean....
...renewable energy sources with variable and unpredictable production. At the same time, roughly half of the world's energy need is in the form of thermal energy – heating, cooling or steam. Thermal energy storage therefore has a key role in securing a stable and cost-effective energy supply in the future...
...systems has been commercialized so far are heat pump water heaters (heat pumps for heating of sanitary water), refrigeration systems for supermarkets and within small size commercial refrigeration. SINTEF-NTNU initiated this development in the end of the 1980s. More than 4 million systems are installed...
...protection and corrosion monitoring and prediction. The core competencies are applied to investigate phenomena at different metallic materials used in mild environments, for materials used in harsh environments as high temperature and high pressure. Our aim is to avoid corrosion under mechanical and chemical...
...between different locations. This includes railway signaling, aircraft control, emergency shutdown systems, emergency braking systems, medical implants, and similar systems where potential failures can have fatal consequences. Safety can be defined as freedom from unacceptable risk of harm to humans, either...
...experience, and advanced equipment measurements and analysing greenhouse gas emissions related to hydropower production. There is a growing need to document greenhouse gas emissions of CO₂ and methane. This need is particularly relevant for national-level greenhouse gas inventories and for climate and sustainability...
ICT solutions for smart cities are large and long-lived systems-of-systems. These are complex solutions with many actors and many heterogeneous systems involved. The systems involved must adapt both to different situations and to a totality that will emerge over time. To cope with these challenges, the...
...computing devices in all shapes and sizes. These devices range from recommender systems, predictive maintenance systems, and digital twins, to autonomous vehicles, robots, and more intuitive and predictive interfaces with our personal devices such as tablets, mobile phones and smartwatches. As AI technology...
...high monetary and environmental costs of running vessels means that even small gains in efficiency can mean huge savings. Maritime inventory routing means planning for transportation of bulk goods by ship between ports where the goods are produced and consumed, while avoiding stockouts and storage overflows...
...based planning tools give large benefits to economy and the environment. The first transportation optimization application area studied at SINTEF was road-based goods transportation. Since 1995, SINTEF has developed models, algorithms, prototypes, and industrial software through various types of R&D projects...
...as Independent Safety Assessor (ISA), Notified Body (NoBo), Assessment Body (AsBo) and Designated Body (DeBo) a number of international standards, rules and regulations. In depth knowledge of these standards, rules and regulations is vital not only to SINTEF as an assessment/certification body, but equally...
Barriers are planned measures to regain control, prevent defined situations of hazards and accidents to develop, or limit consequences of unwanted situations. Barrier management consists of the activities that need to be carried out to make sure that barriers perform their intended function at all times...
...efficiency, and environmental impact of the transport system. SINTEF conducts research on road user behaviour (i.e., how we travel, what we do, to what degree we experience safety, and which skills and properties are important to ensure safe travels). Central to this understanding is the interaction and dynamics...
...planning and monitoring the operation itself and being a tool for making near-future predictions to identify possible dangers as a means of reducing operational risk. Complex marine operations require high real-time situational awareness and monitoring to carry out the mission in a safe and energy-efficient...
...standards. With their cross-disciplinary competences and having made a profession of studying new physical phenomena, SINTEF researchers are well prepared to see through unusual failure mechanisms. SINTEF Industry has competence in the following fields: Optic and electronic microscopy (SEM,STMEPMA, TEM, EBSD...
...of the power system. Examples include the integration of electricity derived from renewable sources, industrial and household loads, HVDC transmission and the electrification of the oil and gas sector. Growth in the importance of reliable energy conversion components to society as a whole is thus on the...