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RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Design and development of a novel concept for solar module manufacturing

The project is concerned with manufacturing technology for solar modules based on backside-contacted solar cells. The main objective is to significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing of solar based energy systems, and hence contribute to green energy p roduction. The manufacturing concept is b...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Akershus

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Terminert. Very efficient solar cells made from float zone silicon

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Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Akershus

GASSMAKS-Økt verdiskaping fra naturgass

Plastics from CO2

Increasing the value from the natural gas-chain requires the development of novel and innovative processes and products. CO2is the molecule with the highest public profile of any molecule today, with tremendous efforts spent in development of technologies for CO2 capture and sequestration.The cu...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Telemark

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Solid-state photoelectrochemical production of hydrogen

The project explores the viability of a novel way to use solar energy to split water, producing hydrogen. This involves the use of a semiconductor electrode on a solid-state high temperature proton conducting electrolyte so as to enable direct formation o f dry hydrogen on the cathode, utilising ...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

Carbon dioxide capture by metal-organic frameworks

Carbon dioxide capture from natural gas or flue gas is of great current interest. The ability to selectively remove it will significantly contribute to a reduction in carbon dioxide emission because of the relatively high concentrations with which it is p resent in these sources. Metal-organic f...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

FASTNMR - Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy for Material Science

Solid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (SS-NMR), applied to solid materials, has now become one of a number of key characterization techniques that are essential and indispensable to both engineers and scientists working within the area of ma terials and chemistry. SINTEF and UiO ha...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

A pre-project on novel materials for post combustion CO2-capture

One of the novel innovative concepts to remove efficiently CO2 from flue gas is a sorption process where a dry regenerable solid sorbent is continuously circulating between two fluidized bed reactors. In the first reactor, CO2 is carbonated and captured i n a gas-solid reaction and, in a second s...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Akershus

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi, nanovitenskap, mikroteknologi og avanserte materialer

Nasjonal forskerskole innen "Nanoteknologi for mikrosystem"

Deltakere Pr. 30. september 2013 er det registrert 96 stipendiater i forskerskolen. Av disse er 25 fra HiVe,45 fra NTNU (22 fra Inst. for elektronikk og telekommunikasjon(IET), 23 fra Inst. for fysikk (IFY)),22 fra UiO (9 fra Fysisk inst. (FI), 13 fra In st. for informatikk (IFI)) og 4 fra UiB. S...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Laccase-Nanoparticle Conjugates for the Elimination of endocrine disrupting chemicals from wastewater in bioreactors.

The following NANOMAT project represents the Norwegian part of the MATERA project called LANCE. The overall objective of this project is to develop a new method for the elimination of very persistent xenobiotics, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals, du ring the wastewater treatment. The concep...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GASSMAKS-Økt verdiskaping fra naturgass

Pilot-Scale Polymerisation of VCM in non-aqueous media

Prosjektet skal utvikle en ny teknologi for polymerisasjon av VCM og demonstrere denne i pilotskala. Både prosessdesign, produksjonsmetoder, energiforbruk og produktegenskaper skal vurderes og sammenlignes med eksisterende teknologier. Resultatet av prosj ektet vil gi et beslutningsgrunnlag for å...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Telemark

SYNKNØYT-Progr.f.synkrotron- og nøytron

Multi-technique probing of catalytic reactions at real working conditions

This proposal is a project aiming at strengthening the current upgrade of the Swiss-Norwegian Beamline B-station from a standard X-ray diffraction (XRD) and absorption spectroscopy (XAS) beamline to a state-of-the-art beamline for in situ/operando catalys is experiments. XAS and XRD are the techn...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Videreutvikling av produkttilpasset CO2-emitter tilpasset modifisert atmosfærepakket kjøttprodukter og ulike pakkemetoder for sjømatprodukt

Hovedmålet er økt kunnskap for å videreutvikle og utvide anvendelsesområdet til norsk produsert CO2-emitter for sjømat og kjøttprodukter. CO2-emitteren utvikler CO2-gass i pakningen som vil bidra til å beholde/øke produktkvaliteten og holdbarhet, samt red usere ineffektiv emballering og distribus...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Møre og Romsdal

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Corroles as functional materials

This is a collaborative project between two groups at the University of Tromsø, led by Professors Abhik Ghosh and Kenneth Ruud, and will comprise both an experimental and a theoretical component. On the experimental side, our studies will involve the syn thesis of a variety of metallocorroles, t...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi, nanovitenskap, mikroteknologi og avanserte materialer

From Molecular Structures to Mechanical Properties: Multiscale Modelling for Ugelstad Particles (MS2MP)

This project will further develop the highly successful work started in the NanoPCP project where the main focus has been to establish a state of art nanomechanical characterisation method for polymer particles with the intention to produce highly consist ent and reproducible results. As a result...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Textiles and clothing for improved safety, performance, and comfort in the High North

The harsh environment in the High North is a threat to work performance, comfort and health. Reduced work performance and comfort represents an increased risk of human errors that may have fatal environmental and health impacts. Today, the latest developm ent in nanotechnology, information techno...

Awarded: NOK 13.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

ECLAIR-RFCP-CT

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Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

SUP-NHD-Strategiske UoH-progr.fin.NHD

Magnetic motors for Ugelstad sphere manipulation: Novel materials and concepts for Lab-on-a-chip

Major technological attempts are today being made to produce materials and engineer systems suitable for so-called Lab-on-a-chip. These are devices capable of performing selected biochemical reactions and accurate analyses on a single chip. The key challe nge here is to develop materials and tech...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

DEVELOPING NEXT GENERATION LOW COST AND DURABLE PEM WATER ELECTROLYSERS

Hydrogen Technologies (Hydro) is working towards commercialisation of PEMWE technology. The fundamental PEMWE catalyst development took place at NTNU during the late 1990s. Hytrec AS (and partner Statkraft) has decided to utilise PEMWE technology for the ir R&D and demonstration centre at Tyholt...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Tidlig deteksjon av premaligne tilstander i kolon ved bruk av fluorescens koloskopi

Photocure utvikler innovative legemidler til diagnostikk og behandling av sykdom basert på fotodynamisk teknologi. Kolorektal cancer er den hyppigst forekommende kreftsykdommen i Norge. Antall nye tilfeller er beregnet til å øke med om lag 34 % frem til 2 020. Dette innbærer en økning fra dagens ...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi, nanovitenskap, mikroteknologi og avanserte materialer

Miljøvennlige bindemidler og malingssytemer basert på modifiserte Nano Silika partikler

Jotun og SINTEF har sammen utviklet nanopartikler til bruk i luftherdende maling (med prosjektnummer 176216/S10, startet i mai 2006 og avsluttes i mars 2008). Dette prosjektet har vært vellykket. Så langt har vi utviklet et produkt, en modifisert nanopart ikkel til bruk i en oljemaling med reduse...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestfold

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Novel light-weight metal hydrides for hydrogen storage applications

One major unsolved problem for the introduction of hydrogen into the global energy system is effective storage of hydrogen. This proposal addresses hydrogen storage in aluminium hydride and novel boron-based hydrides. Both groups of materials have hydroge n contents in the range of 10 wt% H. Rece...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Incorporation of silicon nano sized particles in a solar cell device structure for increased efficiency

Increases in the efficiency of terrestrial photovoltaic devices are important for their widespread acceptance as a form of power generation. One of the main factors limiting the efficiency of Si based solar cells is the imperfect match between bandwidth o ver which it converts photons into curren...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Design, manufacturing and application of polymer particles with or without metal coating for use as spacers in Liquid Crystal Displays

Norwegian particle technology have been of a very high international standard for decades, not least due to ground-breaking R&D at SINTEF / NTNU. Conpart has through the supply agreement signed with a world leading manufacturer already shown that this tec hnology represents a very interesting alt...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Structure-property relations of wood fibres: 3D characterisation and modelling

Traditional manufacturing of pulp for paper products in a process of moving to countries with plantations of fast growing trees located close to the mills. Hence, in the long term perspective, the Nordic pulp and paper industry needs to maintain the advan tages offered by its worldwide technologi...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

STACK TECHNOLOGY FOR CERAMIC PROTON CONDUCTORS

High temperature ceramic proton conductors (HTPC) are in principle superior to PEM and standard SOFC conductors for use in steam electrolysers and hydrogen fuel cells because of the water-free transport of protons; the steam used or formed is associated w ith the oxygen/air side, and thus, dry hy...

Awarded: NOK 16.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

GASSMAKS-Økt verdiskaping fra naturgass

New Gold Catalysts for the Activation and Functionalization of Alkanes

Since 1995, a series of projects involving primarily the group of Prof. Mats Tilset at the University of Olso and scientists from the Department of Hydrocarbon Process Chemistry at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry have lead to the discovery, development and understanding of a unique class of Pt ca...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Utvikling av membraner for kraftproduksjon ved trykkretardert osmose

Et saltkraftverk vil utnytte den potensielle blandingsenergien mellom ferskvann og sjøvann ved at blandeprosessen foregår ved høyt trykk ved bruk av semipermeable membraner. For å kunne produsere kraft ved trykkretardert osmose (TRO) er det viktig at memb ranene har egenskaper som sikrer høy vann...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Synthesis and durability of CNT based MEAs for PEMFC (Nanoduramea) (N-INNER)

The objective of the product is to improve the durability of the membrane electrode assemblies of PEM fuel cells by studying the basic degradation phenomena of carbon supported PT catalysts and perflourosulphonated proton conducting membranes. Improved ca talysts are developed by using advanced c...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Hymen bonding som metode for sammenføyning av aluminium

Tradisjonell smeltesveising fungerer godt på de fleste metaller, bortsett fra Aluminium. For dette metallets del halveres materialets opprinnelige styrke ved oppvarming fordi molekylstrykturen ødelegges. En ny metode der metallet sammenføyes i kald tilst and er demonstrert ved NTNU. I prinsipp h...

Awarded: NOK 0.88 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Møre og Romsdal

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Demonstrasjonsanlegg for produksjon av syntetisk biodiesel fra biogass (BIP-M)

Norge har med dagens produksjonsteknologi, relativt begrenset mulighet til å produsere biodrivstoff fra norske råstoff. Det er derfor viktig for Norge å satse på ny teknologi som gjør det mulig for oss å bedre utnytte våre egne råstoff, og teknologi som e r tilpasset norske forhold. Syntetisk di...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Innlandet