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Welcome to our latest newsletter which we hope will keep you updated on our latest news and provide you with some new insight into some of our exciting projects!
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Some of the stories in this newsletter:
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- Can wave power compete with solar and wind?
- Can a surrogate model decide where to place a hydrogen production factory?
- SF6 gas has attracted international attention lately – find out how we are working with SF6
- Has additive manufacturing of heat exchangers any potential?
- And more…
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Wave vs. Wind and Solar: Levelised Value of Energy
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The potential of wave power is huge, making it a suitable candidate for being an essential part of the world's power supply in a sustainable future. However, wave power technology is still at an early stage, and the maturity is not comparable to wind and solar power (solar power refers to photovoltaic technology in this text). New technology is expensive, … Read more
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ImpreCCS: Lower CCS cost and risk through better CO2 viscosity and thermal conductivity knowledge
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We think that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be a vital technology in order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of global climate change, caused by continued largely unchecked emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHG) to the atmosphere. This view is strongly supported by recent international studies. In the 2-degree scenario of IEA , CCS makes up 14% …
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The suppliers of large, gas-insulated substations are competing to find a suitable replacement for SF6 gas, whose global earming potential (GWP) is 23,000 times greater than that of CO2. The question is whether this is possible. Previously published in Energiteknikk in Norwegian in November 2017. Text and photo: Stein Arne Bakken. The SF6-insulated Substation User Group holds a meeting every … Read more
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Each year, the SF6 -insulated Substation User Group reports to the Norwegian Environment Agency regarding its inventory (in both switchgear and storage) and emissions of SF6 gas. In this blogpost I will present the trends observed in both inventory and emissions during the period 2003 to 2018. SF6 is a potent greenhouse gas SF6 is a gas used as an … Read more
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Four years with SINTEF in Brussels
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In the autumn of 2015, SINTEF officially opened its office in Brussels. The aim was to get better insight into EU opportunities, to better contribute to the shaping of Norwegian funding mechanisms, but also to position Norwegian interests towards the European Union. Now – four years later, SINTEF has considerable experience with establishing new markets and market opportunities in Europe, …
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Additive manufacturing of heat exchangers (How would it work?)
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Today, heat exchanger design and possibilities are limited by current production processes. But what new potential could be realised if heat exchanger design and manufacturing were made free from current production methods and constraints? Additive manufacturing of heat exchangers might provide this freedom. Additive manufacturing of heat exchangers – technical problems In a new project, HighEx, SINTEF researchers team up …
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Better understanding of CO2 liquefaction (Towards identifying optimal transport conditions for ship-based CCS)
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Ship-based transport of CO2 is an attractive technology for early deployment of CCS. It has several advantages like cost-effectiveness for long distances and small volumes, low capital investment, flexibility, and opportunities for co-utilisation of infrastructure. As CCS chains based on ship transport are moving closer to implementation, the question of optimal transport conditions (pressure, temperature and composition) is being raised. … Read more
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The Potential for Hydrogen in Europe
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This spring, SINTEF and IFP Energies nouvelles has assessed the current knowledge on the potential for hydrogen in Europe. The key question of the assessment was if strategic deployment of hydrogen in Europe can increase the probability of reaching its climate targets and at reduced costs compared to alternative paths with low deployment of hydrogen. ... Read more
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Keeping solar and wind energy stored in the battery: What is the value?
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It is expected that operation and planning of electricity distribution systems is going to make more use of flexible resources, such as end-user flexibility (demand response), battery storage systems and electric vehicles. They flexible resources may among other things contribute to handling an increasing variable renewable energy being integrated in the distribution system, such as … Read more
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ELEGANCY: From Helmholtz-type Equations of State to Legal Conditions
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ELEGANCY is an ACT (Accelerating CCS Technologies) project with Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK as participating countries, and even project partners from Belgium and Sweden. The project is not only about CCS, it also considers hydrogen as a CO2-free energy carrier in the future low-carbon economy. From Helmholtz-type equations of state to legal conditions To prepare for …
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WtE - Producing new energy from old data – a Waste-to-Energy story
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Even though Norway has the goal to decouple economic growth and waste production, the increase in waste generated every year has still to stop. A person living in Norway produced on average almost 750kg of household waste in 2017 , which is an increase of about 65% from 1995 . However, thanks to different … Read more
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Smart grid monitoring: new opportunities and challenges with digitalization and 5G integration
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The transition from the traditional power distribution grid to a digitalized distribution grid is mainly driven by the inclusion of distributed and highly fluctuating energy resources (e.g. solar, wind, wave energy). This implies the necessity of sophisticated techniques for monitoring, control and protection of the power system. A deep integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), i.e. digitalization, is thus … Read more
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Happy occasion at SINTEF & NTNU - Opening of the LowEmission Research Centre
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Coauthors: Ragnhild Skorpa and Stefania Gardarsdottir, SINTEF On Friday June 14th the Research Centre LowEmission was officially opened by the Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Mr. Kjell-Børge Freiberg. The Research Centre is hosted by SINTEF in a close collaboration with NTNU and is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and by the many industry partners in the Centre. Already ahead … Read more
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Biofuels from waste - What is hydrothermal liquefaction and why is it interesting?
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Transportation needs to be decarbonized and Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a very promising biofuel technology which can help make that happen. There are many ways to decarbonize transport and we need to proceed with all of them to reach the goals of Paris agreement. Biofuels has been around for decades and although they have already started to decarbonize the transport … Read more
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Consumer and prosumer cooperation may equal reduced electricity prices
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The decarbonisation of the power sector is at the core of the transition to a future sustainable energy. In parallel with the growth in renewables, the costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) and electrical energy storage (EES) are decreasing, which facilitates installation of these devices at the residential level. When power is produced at the residential/consumer level we call it distributed … Read more
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How we achieved more energy efficient steam drying solutions
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SINTEF employees joined the Factory Acceptance Tests at ROTREX A/S headquarter in Copenhagen, Denmark to inspect the improved turbo compressors for an open loop heat pump system. The main component in an open loop heat pump system is the compression device As part of the EU-project DryFiciency, SINTEF is developing and testing a novel compressor type together with ROTREX: a … Read more
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Thermal Conductivity in CCS - new measurement data in unchartered territory
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Thermal conductivity is a key component in CCS, in regard to e.g. CO2 injection and ship transport. But, there is a knowledge gap on thermal conductivity, and NCCS (Norwegian CCS Research Centre) is doing concrete work on closing that gap through its research mobility program. In this blog post I will elaborate shortly on the mobility program and go in … Read more
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