...material offer new possibilities to develop ultra-sensitive sensors due to their high mobilities, surface-to-volume ratios and tuneable electronic structure. Their gas sensing selectivity and sensitivity can be further tailored by decorating their surfaces with nanoparticles specific to a particular gas. Not...
In collaboration with Statoil and TNO - Netherlands, SINTEF has developed and validated a novel methodology for determining the operational limits of free-fall lifeboats. The method combines the use of SINTEF software SIMO, the lifeboat launch simulator VARUNA, and MARINTEK's Computational Fluid Dynamics...
...in which we will increase our understanding of water currents in and between the cages of a fish farm. The current structure is affected by the oceanographic conditions around the farm, the fish biomass, the biofouling state, waves and other environmental conditions. In the project we will combine three...
...production of hydrogen by developing an electrolyser cell operating at 600°C - for efficient use of heat and steam supplied by geothermal or solar plants. SINTEF continues to develop high-temperature fuel cells and electrolysers with a proton conducting electrolyte. The project is based on two EU-funded projects...
...successfully develop and optimize an alternative process to produce primary aluminium. This process, named HalZero, shall eliminate CO2 emissions from aluminium production. The traditional Hall-Héroult (HH) process gives CO2 emissions (1.5-1.6 kg CO2/kg Al) from the reaction between alumina and carbon anodes...
...operation of the network and for customers. The software will also provide data for Statistical analyses. Comprehensive descriptions of how Smart Power (AMS) can be used to monitor the state of the low-voltage network are developed. This can be an useful aid in both network planning and everyday network operation...
...of electricity supply. This imposes requirements for the planning and operation of modern power systems. Society is increasingly dependent on a secure electricity supply. This perhaps most evident at the rare occurrences of extensive and long-lasting blackouts. Such blackouts may have a very low probability...
...to a low-carbon economy and the demand for cobalt is rapidly increasing. The CROCODILE project aims to drastically reduce the supply risk of cobalt for the European industries by increasing the efficiency of recovery and extraction processes for cobalt, both from primary and secondary sources. CROCODILE...
...price. Water content estimation is thus critical in production, and today skilled graders assess this manually. Although the graders are assumed to have a good hit rate, it is expected that automated measurements can improve precision and repeatability. Illustration of the contact free probe A number...
The EU project SCARLET (Superconducting cables for sustainable energy transition) develops and industrially manufactures superconducting cable systems at the gigawatt level, bringing them to the last qualification step before a commercial installation. The new cables are based on superconducting materials...
The petroleum companies in the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association has launched a new study to ensure that the Norwegian offshore industry remains world leading in helicopter safety. The HSS-3b report is now published. The helicopter safety study initiated in 2016 is the last in a series of comprehensive...
...by integrating cultivation of mussels and seaweed with traditional salmon aquaculture. The Office of the Auditor General of Norway has stated that salmon aquaculture faces some major environmental challenges. The concern is directed at escapees, salmon lice and eutrophication effects related to nutrients...
...pressure to produce innovative lightweight solutions that improve vehicle fuel consumption and consequently lower CO2-emissions. Material substitution represents one of the main ways to save vehicle weight, and one-to-one part/material substitutions for parts such as closures, bumpers, knuckles, control...
...semiconductor without introduction of multiple junctions or quantum dots. The theoretical efficiency of IB photovoltaics is more than 60%, and the processing is potentially quite easy and cheap. If this concept is proven in stage 1 of the project, the second stage will focus on optimizing important material properties...
...to automatically pick and place objects that are placed completely unorganized in a container. This problem is commonly referred to as random bin picking. As a part of the Auto3D project, SINTEF and Tordivel AS have developed the 3DMaMa algorithm which is a rapid, versatile and robust method for 3D...
The main objective of AirOcean is to reduce environmental footprint and increase energy efficiency of oceangoing vessels by providing know-how for design and application of effective air-lubrication systems (ALS). The project aims to reduce fuel consumption from oceangoing vessels, which is a required...
...different integration layers, a closed environment and proprietary technologies from just a few vendors. However, this is about to change as the pyramid limits productivity, efficiency and being first-to-market. Driven by trends such as Industry 4.0 and digital twins, new technology paradigms are appearing...
...goal of this project is to develop and build a competitively-priced, online spectroscopic measurement system for measuring and analyzing liquids in industrial processes, based on Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) technology. FT-IR instruments are often high-end and lab-based, but this project aims to...
...document and quantify the effect of Blue Lice’s technology as a preventive measure against sea lice infestations during a full salmon production cycle at sea. Transitioning from a treatment-based to a preventive sea lice combatting strategy could have major positive effects on fish welfare and contribute...
...nanoparticles developed by SINTEF containing a cytostatic drug. Although treatment of breast- and colorectal cancer has greatly improved during recent years, we are still facing challenges related to metastasis, resistance and side effects of the treatment. In fact, patients experiencing promising treatment effects...