55 projects

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Safe handling of refrigerated pressurized ammonia

Ammonia (NH3) is projected to be an important part of the clean energy transition. Using ammonia large amounts of energy can be transported with relative ease. This makes it a strong candidate, e.g., for fueling ships and heavy transport. To make this possible, however, we need safe and efficient...

Awarded: NOK 13.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

EcosatX2.0 - Fremtidens laminat basert på resirkulerte råvarer.

Is it possible to increase the content of recycled materials in high-quality products to the furniture- and building industry? This is the main challenge to be solved in EcosatX2.0. Ranheim Paper & Board AS has developed a paper quality, based on 100% recycled fiber, suitable for production of ...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIFORSKNING-ENERGIFORSKNING

Scaling up the ZEG technology by solids segregation

Hydrogen is an important raw material in several chemical and metallurgical processes. It is also considered a potential clean energy carrier and will have an important role in the transition to a fully renewable energy market. Industrial hydrogen production is today predominantly carried out by ...

Awarded: NOK 16.5 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

SUBLIME: SUstainaBle carbon capture from LIME

De globale karbonfangstmarkedene utvikler seg raskt med mål om å redusere klimagassutslipp og deres effekt på klima. Blant annet representerer kalkindustrien betydelige CO2-utslipp med mange utslippspunkter i en "hard-to-abate" sektor som leverer kritiske mineraler til den europeiske industrien (...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

full FRES - Fremtidens REsept for Sluttbehandling av farlig avfall

An important part of a sustainable future is to deal with waste in an efficient and safe manner. Industrial waste is diverse and may contain environmentally hazardous substances that must be safely disposed of (hazardous waste), materials that are valuable for recycling, and non-hazardous materia...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

EcosatX - Innovativt produkt for eksteriør- og CPL-laminat basert på resirkulerte råvarer

Laminate is a sturdy and durable building material with a wide range of applications. Although most people do not notice it, laminates are present in everything from furniture, kitchen décor, floors, wardrobes in the fitness center, building facades, conference halls, airports - in short, it surr...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PES-HORISONT-EU-PES Horisont Europa

Knowledge Platform for Indoor Air Quality

The current way of life, mostly urban, forces people to spend most of their time indoors for reasons of work, education, and even exercise, IAQ is now recognized as an important parameter that needs to be controlled, not only to provide thermal comfort but to protect occupants' health. To create ...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2021-2022

Location: Telemark

PES-HORISONT-EU-PES Horisont Europa

Hierarchical approach for differentiation of cells by combining biomaterials, surface chemistry and 3D structuring

The PES project will contribute to develop a winning proposal for the m-eranet call 2021. In the specific project we will develop sustainable solutions and innovations based on advanced materials to meet the needs of society, i.e. new materials and 3D structures to obtain functional cells. There ...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2021-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

Reisestøtte i forbindelse med etablering av FoU-kontakt med universiteter i Brasil

Formålet med reisen er å etablere FoU-kontakt og danne grunnlag for fellesprosjekter med University of Rio de Janeiro og University of Brasilia i Brasil, som er ledende forskningsmiljøer innen vann- og avløpsrensing i Brasil. Begge universiteter har et godt samarbeid med industripartnere. Brasi...

Awarded: NOK 11,831

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Akershus

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Innovative materials for CO2 Capture by Combined Calcium-Copper Cycles

The goal of this project is to investigate innovative materials in the Calcium-Copper looping process combining both copper and calcium phases in the same particle. The objective is to favor heat transfer from the exothermic CuO reduction to the endothermic CaCO3 calcination reaction, reducing th...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Akershus

MAROFF-2-Maritim virksomhet og offshore operasjoner 2

Avansert kontroll av biocidutlekking fra bunnstoff

Biofouling occurs as soon as an object is immersed in a marine environment. Biofouling is a complex process: The fouling process starts with a conditioning film followed by microfouling. After a while, macrofouling such as algae, barnacles, mussels and hydroids colonize the object. The amount an...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Vestfold

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Hybrid reactor for production of power, hydrogen and valuable chemical compounds from natural gas with integrated CO2 capture

While production of electricity and hydrogen will continue to rely on the use of fossil fuels in the near future, there are novel alternative processes that allow this production to be carbon-neutral. We propose a new concept ? a hybrid pyrolysis / gasification reactor operating on natural gas (N...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Vestland

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

New polymeric membranes for CO2 capture

Goal of the Project: The primary objective of the POLYMEM project is to reduce the costs, energy consumption and environmental impact of CO2 capture compared with existing technologies by developing and implementing the "next generation" polymeric membranes. Technical content: The project prom...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Superlyophobic surfaces for efficient separation and droplet condensation of CO2

The realisation of full-scale implementation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the near future is of high importance in order to limit global warming. To realise large scale CCS, we need innovative solutions that can give substantial cost reductions for CO2 capture, transport and storage. Th...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

A pressurized Internally Circulating Reactor (ICR) for cost-effective power production with integrated CO2 capture

The main outcome of the ICR project is the lab-scale demonstration of a new internally circulating reactor (ICR) concept which aims to simplify the design and scale-up of chemical looping technologies. Chemical looping has great potential for clean and highly efficient energy conversion, but is f...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

RECOVER - Resource recovery from wastewater

RECOVER is a BIA competence project that deals with improvement of recovery of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater. It is a co-operation between three Norwegian research institutes (NMBU, NTNU, SINTEF) and six industrial companies (Cambi, Doscon, Kemira, Kruger-Kaldnes, Norconsult an...

Awarded: NOK 21.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Capture of CO2 in Confined Surfactant Geometries

Goal Design and validate lyotropic liquid crystals for CO2 capture, transport and injection in aquifers, via thermodynamic modelling and small-scale experiments, involving selection of polymer architecture, investigation of water penetration into the structure, simple validation experiments, eco...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

BIGGCCS (193816): Personal overseas research grant for Visiting Researcher

Gas separation membranes are considered among one of the most promising technologies for post-combustion carbon dioxide capture. However, to compete with solvent-based systems for CO2 capture, development of membranes with improved performances (e.g. selectivity and permeance) is strongly needed....

Awarded: NOK 65,954

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Første EU - Australske workshop i HiPerCap

HiPerCap prosjektet er 1 av 6 prosjekter som får støtte fra 7. rammeprogram innenfor CCS hvor et av kravene er samarbeid med Australia. For å sikre spredning av resultater i dette EU prosjektet skal det arrangeres to workshops, 1 i Australia og 1 i Europ a. Den første skal arrangeres 25-27 mars ...

Awarded: NOK 16,500

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

innovative sorbents for the sorbent enhanced water-gas shift process

The main goal in the iSEWGS project was to develop CO2 sorbents in order to improve the efficiency and economics of a process for hydrogen production. In the process we have worked with (the sorbent enhanced water-gas shift (SEWGS) process) hydrogen is separated from a carbon-containing fuel befo...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Magnetic separation of CO2 through sorption on magnetic hybrid nanoparticles

Imagine that one could capture CO2 using a smart magnet - The CARBOMAG project is based on a novel concept for CO2 capture combining nanotechnology with magnetic separation in a multidisciplinary approach. The new development is expected to result in more than 50% cost reduction compared to today...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Combined fixed bed processes for improved energy efficiency and with low penalty for CO2 capture

Project goals and objectives: The COMPOSITE project aims at merging two different CO2 capture technologies in order to utilize and strengthen their advantages and at the same time moderate their disadvantages. More specifically, the COMPOSITE project applies Chemical Looping Oxygen Production (CL...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

3rd GENERATION SOLVENT MEMBRANE CONTACTOR

During the last years there has been significant development in new solvents for chemical absorption of CO2. These new solvents, often called 3rd generation solvents, require lower temperatures in the desorber and/or less heat to reverse the reactions making them economically more feasible. Howev...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Low Energy Penalty Solvents

Target: Among the carbon capture technologies closest to implementation, post combustion capture (PCC) and industrial source capture based on CO2 absorption into reactive liquids is the most mature, but still shows a large improvement potential. The main challenges are energy requirement and pos...

Awarded: NOK 8.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Buskerud

FORNY20-FORNY2020

GjenKOMP - Fra problemavfall til grønt liv

There is currently no commercial solution available for recycling of glassfiber reinforced composites, e.g. used in leisure boats, silos and windmill blades. Disposal of composite waste is a major environmental challenge, which needs an economically and environmentally sustainable solution. Envir...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Hydrogen Use in CO2 Capture Technologies

Through international world-class cooperation with UC Berkeley and Sandia National Laboratories in the US, the HYCAP project aims at answering fundamental questions targeted to the development of the next-generation carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS). Specifically, HYCAP focuses on eff...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Carbon Capture in Molten Salts

Goal: To further investigate key issues important for the deployment of a new method for extracting CO2 from diluted gas mixtures. The main issue in the project is to find out how to lower the process temperature, keep the high efficiency while lowering the energy consumption in this particular...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Akershus

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Evolutionary de novo design of absorbents with optimal CO2 capturing properties

Technical overview We employ a computer guided design approach to facilitate the development of new CO2 absorbents with improved properties. Our method is based on an evolutionary algorithm (EA), a global optimization method ensuring that absorbents with multiple optimal properties are rea...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Using MOFs: Materials and Process Development

Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are known to cause global warming, where in the earth average temperature increases. The global scientific community has acknowledged a 2°C threshold in the global temperature increase to avoid irreversible effects of climate change. This necessitates about 50% CO2 emi...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Production of power and valuable chemical feed stock with integrated CO2 capture

The project aims to develop technologies for production of electricity and valuable feedstock products (hydrogen, carbon) with integrated CO2 capture. The project focuses on the development of reactor technologies for high efficiency autocatalytic conversion of natural gas to valuable feedstock p...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland