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ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Biomass to liquid fuels

Gassifisering av biomasse (for eksempel skogsavfall) fulgt av gassbehandling og syntese av hydrokarboner (såkalt Fischer-Tropsch syntese) er en mulig produksjonsrute for bærekraftig biodrivstoff som ikke fortrenger matvareproduksjon. Metoden er spesielt egnet for framstilling av diesel og flydriv...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Design of novel Pd-alloy membranes with controlled composition, homogeneity and nanostructure for hydrogen production under harsh conditions

The primary large-scale industrial hydrogen production route is from natural gas through a process that involves two equilibrium-limited reactions: the steam reforming and the subsequent WGS step, to arrive at a gas which is rich in H2 and low in CO. Hydr ogen selective membranes have frequently ...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Hydrogen in solar-grade p-type silicon: dominant complexes and solar cell efficiency

The PV market is dominated by solar cells based on mc-Si, and it is expected that Si will continue to dominate in the years to come. Huge efforts are put down in research related to improving and optimizing such silicon based photovoltaics. Practically a ll earlier solar cells based on p-type Si...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

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-Forskning, utvikling og demo av 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

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Novel materials for utilization of natural gas and hydrogen

Separasjon av gassmolekyler er en av de viktigste områder i produksjon av drivstoff, kjemikalier og mange andre industrier. Separasjon står for mer enn 30% av de totale kostnadene av sluttproduktet, gass eller kjemikalie, så et forbedret separasjonstrinn vil lede til reduserte kostnadene for prod...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Thermoelectric heat-pumps for energy savings in houses

Thermoelectric devices (Peltier elements) may be used to generate electricity by operating between two different temperatures, or conversely, as heat-pumps for cooling or heating by sending direct current through the device. Thus, the thermoelectric pheno menon has potential as an environmentally...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Rogaland

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

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

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

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

FASADER I GLASS - Som holder hva vi lover

Forskriftene kan oppfylles ved at en regner at byggets netto energibruk skal ligge under en gitt ramme. Til denne beregningen benyttes NS 3031:2007 Beregning av bygningers energiytelse. I beregningen inngår det en rekke bygningstekniske faktorer, som besk river bygningens utforming og kvaliteter....

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Støtte til First International Marine Ingredients Conference Oslo 20. - 21.09.2010

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

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

ENERGIX-Stort program energi

Development of semiconductor nanowire based solar cells

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Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Boron and Phosphorus in Solar Grade Silicon

The growth of the solar cell market, indicates a shortage of solar cell feedstock silicon at present and in the near future. Therefore, creation of special technologies of this feedstock production is necessary. The most direct approach for silicon feedst ock production is to upgrade metallurgica...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

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

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

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

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 prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

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 og nye materiale

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

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

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

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

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

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

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

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

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