Fracturing provides a way to increase recovery of hydrocarbons from tight rocks. SINTEF develops knowledge on fracture initiation and growth in order to make fracking more efficient and to answer the environmental concerns. Our knowledge is also needed to properly design water-injection operations, since they...
CFD research group with solid expertise in hydrodynamic and aerodynamic analysis applied to ships and offshore structures. Within all market branches of the ocean industries, our CFD expertise is applied in combination with other numerical and experimental approaches to best answer our client's needs...
Micro-Optics concerns development of miniature components for light manipulation, such as micromirrors, microlenses, diffractive- and meta-optical elements, and photonic integrated circuits. Our core technologies Below follows some short descriptions of our main research areas. Active optical elements...
Wood is probably our oldest building material, and is one of the primary building materials in Norway to this day. We also see an increased use of wood elements and structures in large-scale constructions. We work within the following fields: Architecture Construction Construction technology Building...
SINTEF uses various numerical simulation tools in combination with physical understanding and practical experience. This can, for example, be simulation of AM processes in order to improve component quality, or topology optimization of a component's geometry, in order to reduce weight or optimize the...
...an intra-day basis for the supply of reserves and balancing power, and for trading in bilateral contracts. The intention is that, within the electrical power system, trading in all these markets shall be linked together as part of the same production and transmission system. This requires multi-market...
...inertia from the power electronic converter interfaces of distributed generation and energy storage systems. In Europe, this is important in the light of the decommissioning of large-scale thermal generation facilities and the growth in power electronics-based distributed generation. Inertia emulation...
...using a combination of shallow, high-resolution seismic and shallow (max 580 m) stratigraphic drilling (diamond coring). The cores, of Late Ordovician to Late Tertiary age, were taken from more than 90 localities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and have a total length of about 6600 m (see map on backside)...
...still an unresolved problem in well plugging. The annulus between casing and rock is traditionally filled with cement in selected sections of a well. SINTEF is studying how the formation itself sometimes creep towards the casing and form an even more efficient sealing barrier in a long term perspective...
...process industry, air traffic management, and crisis management. What are good working conditions when attention has to be divided between multiple tasks? It is important to try out attention demanding solutions with real users before launch? Besides crises management and operational room layout, SINTEF is...
...organizing and controlling the flow of traffic in a safe and efficient manner both at airports and in the air. With the growing number of flights, it is increasingly more difficult for air traffic controllers to make every time the best possible decision such that each passenger has an on-time and efficient...
...development, model-reduction/proxy-modelling and fit-for-purpose optimization algorithms. We have long experience both in developing simulator code that fits into optimization workflows and selecting the best optimization approaches for problems where objective (and non-linear constraint) calculations entail...
...accuracy and reliability of forecasts and simulations by continuously updating model inputs with observational data. This process reduces uncertainties, improves predictive skill, and enables better-informed decision-making in various fields such as weather forecasting, environmental monitoring, and climate...
...a selected AM process, controlled by a process plan and selected process parameters. On the way from idea to produced part, many choices are made, often based on numerical simulations and optimizations, which affect the parts' properties, quality and longevity. If any later failure or damage occurs to...
Subsea gas blowouts and gas releases pose a threat to human life, offshore assets and the environment. A risk assessment relies amongst others on estimates of gas concentrations in the atmosphere above the release. SINTEF conducts research and risk assessments on release scenarios. Experiments on plume...
...consumes less resources and can increase the security of supply. The degradation of components in the energy system can be impacted by a number of factors, including both operational parameters, such as power and voltage, and external environment influences, such as temperature and humidity. Normally, a...
Micro-opto-electromechanical ... systems with structures in the micro- to millimeter range whose purposes are to manipulate light. Today's MOEMS devices include waveguides, moving mirrors and diffractive gratings....
In certain geologic and hydrodynamic settings, an additional residual oil zone exists below the traditionally defined base (oil-water contact) of an oil reservoir. These residual oil zones exist where nature has already water-flooded the lower portion of an oil reservoir. To distinguish these naturally...
...multitude of possible applications SINTEF MiNaLab has worked with design, modelling and fabrication of piezoelectric microsystems on 150 mm wafers including materials development of piezoelectric thin films by CSD, PLD and sputtering since 2003. SINTEF MiNaLab lowers the entry barrier for this technology...
...any other country. Both the industry and the households have had access to electrical energy. In Norway it is common to use electrical energy for space heating, and the electricity consumption per inhabitants is among the highest in the world. From an environmental and energy efficiency point of view it...