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Renewable energy on the high seas – science-informed and indigenous knowledge-based recommendations for regulatory and governance challenges

The high seas are those marine areas under no State's jurisdiction. So far, all marine renewable energy (RE) activity is being conducted under State's jurisdiction. However, recent advances in technology are raising the prospect of carrying out RE activity on the high seas. Currently, only seabed mining activities in the Area have been regulated. The Area is the seabed and ocean floor beyond the limits of State's jurisdiction. From the legal viewpoint, the main gap is a lack of an international regulatory framework, informed by participatory mechanisms and supported by scientific evidence, for RE activities on the high seas, especially regarding their environmental and social impacts. 
The primary project objective (O) is to provide the scientific community and policymakers with science-informed and indigenous knowledge-based recommendations in support of the development of  RE regulation on the high seas. 
Two specific Os are set to complement the primary O, namely:
O1 To advance the use of systematic consultation processes that facilitates research at the crossroads of marine sciences and law. 
O2 To advance critical knowledge and understanding of environmental pressing issues comparable to the regulation of RE on the high seas, such as deep-sea mining in the Area.
A multistep innovative methodology will be adopted, by integrating marine scientific knowledge, consultative processes, and advanced critical research in the subject matter. A case study (interdisciplinary and participatory) involving marine scientists, indigenous and coastal communities and policy makers will be conducted onboard the Research Vessel KronPrins Haakon at the beginning of the project. The case study outcomes will be analysed through critical legal analysis to build a knowledge base for policy recommendations. 
The project will advance the PI’s career in an international research environment, allowing her to generate independent, high-quality, and reproducible results.




Optimization of Free Space Optical Communication Link based Drones for Search and Rescue Operations in the Arctic Region

The Arctic region is witnessing more frequent shipping accidents than ever which require accurate search and rescue operations. The existing communication systems use drones with radio frequency (RF) technology, which has limited bandwidth and cannot offer 4G/5G connectivity due to harsh weather constraints. It further limits the capacity of drones and affects the resolution of images and videos. The current research proposes to design free space optical communication (FSOC) link-based drones that can enhance connectivity between multiple drones and rescue ships as well as the capacity of drones to produce high resolution images and videos. The proposed FSOC-based drones can provide highspeed connectivity than the existing RF technology. The research will collect atmospheric turbulences data from the Arctic region and use it for designing the FSOC link. Furthermore, to enhance the capacity of FSOC-based drones, the research will design advanced multiplexing schemes (Mode Division Multiplexing and Orthogonal Code Division Multiple Access) and to ensure link stability, omnidirectional receiver will be designed. The research will further evaluate the performance of proposed FSOC link under the impact of various atmospheric turbulences. The expected outcomes of this research will lead to the optimisation of FSOC-based drones in expanding search areas and improving communication systems for SAR operations in the Arctic region.

Evaluation of thermohydraulic characteristic of printed circuit heat exchangers in pseudocritical region for supercritical CO2 cycle

Currently, 28.2% of the total EU-28 greenhouse gas emissions come from the power sector, a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, the emphasis of the research in power generation has swung towards assessing highly efficient and greener power cycles. In this reference, the novel supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle (sCO2-BC) is an ideal choice that outstrips other formally well-known power cycles (Brayton & Rankine cycles). In sCO2-BC, the role of the pre-cooler is critical. It serves as a sink to the power cycle and regulates the conditions at the compressor's inlet. The compressor's inlet temperature is intended to be maintained close to the critical temperature of carbon dioxide (CO2) to achieve greater cycle efficiencies. However, exceptionally higher values of the specific heat capacity of CO2 near its critical point (up to 40 times higher than water) require exceedingly high water flow rates on the cold side to achieve the desired exit temperatures of CO2. Consequently, the pre-cooler's pumping power requirements become high enough to deteriorate the cycle's performance. This problem can only be mitigated by exploring new channel geometries with enhanced thermohydraulic characteristics. Therefore, the proposed study plan to characterize the complex thermohydraulic characteristics in the pseudocritical region of CO2 using a multifaceted technique that includes, experimental, numerical, and machine learning techniques. The proposed work will provide a step forward to the success of sCO2-BC technologies that, in turn, will facilitate its integration with the green energy resources (generation-IV nuclear reactors and solar concentrated plants), helping to meet the EU's 2030 climate and energy framework goals of achieving at least 32% share for renewable energy.

Bilberry Ecology and the Regeneration of forest Ecosystem Functioning

Human impacts such as clearcut harvesting have left forests bereft of the organisms that underpin their functioning. The decline of key plant species has reduced the capacity of forests to store carbon (C) and provide ecosystem services to the people of Europe. The regeneration of forest ecosystem functioning requires a deeper understanding of how the traits of its species can be linked to ecosystem processes. The BEREFT project aims to elucidate how the plant traits of bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus, modulate the dynamics of C and nitrogen (N) within the boreal forest. The project combines advances in chemical ecology with an innovative experimental design situated in Norway pairing experimental plots in formerly clearcut forest plantations with those from near-natural forests. I will collect a comprehensive set of bilberry's chemical traits and test both in-situ and in-vitro experiments to determine the underlying mechanism linking bilberry traits to C and N dynamics. The project goes beyond the state-of-the-art in applying novel methods from chemical ecology to measure bilberry's traits and uses a creative design to link those traits to ecosystem functioning. Through the scope of traits measured and the innovation in experimental design pairing clearcut forests with near-natural forests, this project will significantly advance our knowledge of the ecology of Europe's forest ecosystems. I will receive training in chemical ecology to advance my career as an expert in data generation and exchange with the host my knowledge on long-term ecological experimentation and ecosystem functioning. The project will disseminate deliverables in trait data packages, an open-source chemical ecology pipeline, and a robust measure of the effect size of bilberry's impact on C and N in the boreal forest. Knowledge of bilberry's role in the forest C cycle can be exploited by forestry managers in efforts to maximize C storage to meet the EU's goal of carbon neutrality.

EOSC Beyond: advancing innovation and collaboration for research

EOSC Beyond overall objective is to advance Open Science and innovation in research in the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by providing new EOSC Core capabilities allowing scientific applications to find, compose and access multiple Open Science resources and offer them as integrated capabilities to researchers. To do so, EOSC Beyond supports a new concept of EOSC: a federated and integrated network of Nodes operated at different levels, national, regional, international and thematic, to serve the specific scientific missions of their stakeholders. Further specific objectives of the project are to accelerate ‘time to product’ of new scientific applications with software adapters, enable Open Science with machine composability and dynamic deployment of shared resources, support innovation in EOSC with a testing and integration environment, and align the EOSC Core architecture and specifications to integrate with European dataspaces. The project extends the state of the art of the EOSC Core and adopts a co-design methodology, including requirements elicitation, software development and validation in collaboration with different use cases from EOSC national and regional initiatives (e-Infra CZ, Czechia, NFDI, Germany, and NI4OS, South East Europe region), thematic research infrastructures from Social Sciences and Humanities (CESSDA), Life Sciences (CNB-CSIC and Instruct-ERIC), Environmental Science (ENES and LifeWatch), and Health and Food (METROFood-RI). EOSC Beyond builds on the capacities of prospective EOSC Nodes and partners with multi-annual experience in developing solutions for large-scale federated digital infrastructures and aligns with the technical architecture and requirements of data spaces from different business sectors. Ultimately, EOSC Beyond supports Open Science in modern, data-intensive, and multidisciplinary research, facilitating resource discovery, access, and reuse across scientific communities, organisations, and countries.


CULTUral heritage in RurAL remote areas for creative tourism and sustainabilITY

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of cultural and creative tourism activities, considering the different capacities, resources, and specificities (material, creative, human...) of the territories, as a mean to help with the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas, favoring job creation and population settlement. For this, the potential of its cultural heritage will be researched, taking into account both the artisan material culture (techniques, materials, patterns and decorative elements), as well as the intangible culture (music, oral knowledge and culinary traditions) as a resource.
 
To promote non-seasonal tourism as a form of sustainable development with a stable population settlement we are going to research the crafts linked to the territory and their implications, but we will also carry out a documentation of the productive processes. First and foremost, we are going to cater to the necessities of the local communities and pay attention to aspects related to societal groups at risk of exclusion, such as women, the elderly and the youth.

All this will be developed from a multidisciplinary perspective, for which we will count on the various teams —most of them linked to different countries— that will be part of the consortium. Each of these partners will contribute to the development, as well as to the final result of the project through input directly related to their area of ??expertise: for example, among the collaborators we have intellectual teams specialized in the digitalization of heritage, research, or communication and dissemination, as well as as various institutions that will act as a testing ground for the more practical parts of the proposal. However, if something will characterize our work, it will be the constant collaboration between all parties, as well as the exchange of advice and experiences that will help to enrich collective knowledge and guarantee optimal results.

AQUASERV – RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES FOR SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE, FISHERIES AND THE BLUE ECONOMY

The overarching objectives of AQUASERV are to bring together, enhance, integrate and customise RI capacities (including facilities, instruments and expertise) and through the provision of transnational access (on-site or remote) and/or virtual access, to significantly further scientific advance and promote and facilitate the implementation of European Common Fisheries Policy, the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Sustainable Blue Economy and the European Green Deal. 

AQUASERV will achieve these objectives by offering scientists from academia and business remote and on-site transnational (TA) and virtual (VA) access to an advanced set of European research infrastructures and its nodes related to research and management of marine and freshwater biological resources, food and biotechnology. These include the European Marine Biological Resource Centre ERIC (EMBRC), the Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems ERIC, The Aquaculture for Excellence for Aquaculture in Fish (Aquaexcel), and the Infrastructure for Promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition (METROFOOD), as well as the International Council for Exploration of the Sea, both a service provider and stakeholder. It also includes the Research Infrastructure for Science and Innovation Policy Studies (RISIS) to bring contributions from the social sciences and to bring results nearer to policy makers ensuring societal impact. 

To enhance, integrate and customise RI capacities, collaboration between partners and new pipelines to meet the objectives of the project will be developed during the first 3 years and will make available  to users.  To ensure these capacities will not be lost, a sustainability work package involving stakeholders will address the project legacy.  

To maximize impact, AQUASERV will build a communication network among the partnership and develop a dissemination and outreach programme. Furthermore, an advanced training programme will be developed to capture future users and will be updated during the p

Harmonization of Advanced Materials Ecosystems serving strategic Innovation Markets to pave the way to a Digital Materials & Product Passport

The overarching objective of DigiPass is to enhance the digital maturity of the European communities that develop materials and intermediate products. The project will develop recommendations and clear routes toward digitalized circular business models. The overarching key result of DigiPass is to create a sustainable platform which includes support for Digital Materials & Product Passport and for collaborative innovation-by-design processes in a circular economy served by advanced materials. A business model for operating such a platform completes the overarching objective.
DigiPass is harmonizing and synergizing collected materials data sources and digital infrastructures. This will enable interoperability of data exchange, and standardization of advanced materials knowledge representation at all maturity levels. Accelerating the design, development, and production of advanced, safe, and sustainable chemicals and materials, as they are necessary for innovative products, calls for a collaborative approach involving different stakeholders to support durability, repair and overhaul, reuse, and recyclability of products. DigiPass project impacts all materials development communities over the whole circular value chain. 


Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change risks

Adaptation to climate change requires in-depth understanding of climate change driven risks, including their determinants (hazards, exposure and vulnerabilities) and impacts to human, production and natural systems. Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks (IRISCC) is a consortium of diverse and complementary leading research infrastructures (RIs) covering disciplines from natural sciences to social sciences, across different domains and sectors. IRISCC provides scientific and knowledge services to foster cutting-edge research and evidence-based policymaking to improve Europe's resilience to climate change. IRISCC ensures a “one-stop-shop” for various user communities on climate change risk related RI services by setting up a dedicated Catalogue of services and related access management system both for granting transnational (onsite and remote) and offering virtual access. The Catalogue of services will be built through three consecutive releases, each delivering increasingly integrated services to its user communities. The IRISCC service integration will include Service Design Labs employing co-design and transdisciplinary action, and Service Demonstrators benchmarking the integrated cross-RI services. In addition to services aimed towards the scientific community, IRISCC will offer knowledge services aimed towards policymakers and other stakeholders. This is done together with risk management platforms. The research enabled by IRISCC contributes to future reports on climate change effects (IPCC, IPBES) as well as policy- and decision-making to meet the targets of climate adaptation strategies. IRISCC contributes to training a new generation of scientists to efficiently use RI services and for data stewardship. Data from IRISCC will be open and made available in compliance with FAIR principles and linked to European initiatives such as EOSC. Strong links will be created between IRISCC and current and future efforts under Horizon Europe.

Enhanced X(cross)-disciplinary Community-driven Imaging Technologies for Earth and Environmental material research

The EXCITE² Network is revolutionizing Earth and environmental material science research by consolidating a critical mass of 18 research facilities in 12 European and associated partner countries into a unified infrastructure and providing transnational access to advanced imaging technologies. This enables scientists to decipher complex processes within Earth materials at scales from nanometres to hundreds of centimetres, gaining unparalleled insight into the chemical and physical processes that govern, among others, environmental toxicity and its impact on human health, critical metal extraction for renewable energies, and the utilisation of Earth materials as long-term storage for climate-altering gases. The consortium fosters knowledge-sharing and talent attraction, bolstering the problem-solving capacity of the European Research Area. Moreover, EXCITE² is driving interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-fertilisation across academic institutions, scientific disciplines, and industry, propelling Europe towards a sustainable future. The initiative offers dedicated training programmes to a new generation of researchers within the European open science landscape, paired with access to world-class imaging facilities and expertise for problem-solving research and innovation. EXCITE² is introducing innovative service developments, such as artificial intelligence and leading-edge imaging experiments, to increase the user's problem-solving capacity. In addition, the consortium is implementing customised project valorisation strategies to maximize the impact of research outcomes in academia, society, and the economy. Citizen science projects allow the public to participate directly within the EXCITE² Network, contributing to solving EU challenges. As such, EXCITE² is paving the way towards a sustainable future, driving scientific excellence, and creating positive societal impact.

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The purpose of this project is to explore the functionalisation of different alkenols (produced by coupling of 3,3,4,4-tetraethoxy-1-butyne with aldehydes and ketones and subsequent reduction), at the carbon-carbon double bond with the aim of obtaining ca rbohydrate derivatives, which are modified at C-3 or C-4 or at both. The project will focus on the introduction of amino and perfluoroalkyne groups at these positions, to give amino-sugar and perfluoroalkyl-sugar derivatives. Amino-sugar derivatives play an important role in the human immune system and are often found as substructures in natural products. Perfluoroalkyl-substituted sugar derivatives have properties which indicate that they should be useful as surfactants and e mulsifiers for biomedical applications.

Modified carbohydrates from 3,3,4,4-tetraethoxy-1-butyne

NoBAl (Norsk behandling av biprodukter fra Aluminiumindustrien) er et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom norske aluminiumprodusenter (Hydro, Alcoa), dross-behandler (Real Alloy) og forskningsmiljøet (SINTEF). Hovedmålet er å danne minst mulig biprodukter og at norsk aluminiumindustri ikke skal eksportere problemavfall, men behandle dette på en miljømessig og økonomisk best mulig måte i Norge.

Aluminium krever mye energi å lage og blir produsert i elektrolyseceller ved at aluminiumoksid blir løst i kryolitt. Vha. elektrisk strøm vil aluminium og oksygen splittes slik at aluminiummetall dannes. Metallet blir så overført til støperiene der det støpes ut.

Hvilke utfordringer er det da i disse prosessene?

Elektrolysecellene har en levetid på typisk 6 år og i bunnen av disse cellene legger det seg et lag av aluminium blandet med noe kryolitt. Dette materialet kalles bunnkaker og må i dag eksporteres til utlandet. Dette prosjektet vil sikre at disse bunnkakene behandles i Norge.

Fordi mye energi brukes for å skille aluminium fra oksygen, vil det aluminium derfor også veldig gjerne binde seg til oksygen igjen. Denne skjer gjerne i det metallet overføres til støpeovner, eller ved senere omrøring inni ovnene. Der dannes det en "grøt" på toppen av smelta som kalles dross og kan inneholde opp mot 90 % metall.

Vi skal se på den totale metallstrømmen av aluminium innad og mellom partnerne i prosjektet og sikre at den totale mengden oksidasjon minimeres.

Metallet som blir separert fra dross (og i fremtiden også bunnkaker) blir returnert til aluminiumprodusentene for bruk i deres produkter. Men dette metallet inneholder ofte endel urenheter som kan være skadelig for de ferdige produktene. I prosjektet vil det bli gjort en grundig evaluering av metallkvaliteten slik at nødvendige tiltak iverksettes.

Funnene i prosjektet vil bli publisert i internasjonale tidsskrift og kommunisert direkte med internasjonale organisasjoner for aluminiumprodusenter slik at kunnskapen blir tilgjengelig.

Den overordnede idéen til prosjektet Norsk Behandling av Biprodukter fra Aluminiumsindustrien (NoBAl) er å behandle biproduktene dross og bunnkaker, på en slik måte at en minimerer tapet av aluminium og maksimerer verdi på metallet med minst mulig miljøavtrykk. Dette skal gjøre gjennom å jobbe med hele prosesskjeden og skal oppnås ved:
 
1.	Bestemme mekanismer og redusere hvor mye metall som oksiderer i hvert behandlingstrinn for å minimere summen av oksidasjon i hele kjeden.
2.	Bestemme metallkvalitet og optimalisere smelteprosesser hos prosjektpartnerne samt utvikle tiltak for sikring av stabil og god kvalitet av metall gjenvunnet fra biprodukter.
3.	Kartlegge bunnkaker ved å bestemme hvor mye metall og kryolitt/elektrolytt det er i bunnkakene fra de forskjellige verkene og sørge for at også disse kan gjenvinnes i Norge.
4.	Identifisere utslippskilder og gjøre tiltak for å minimere miljøavtrykket ved behandling av biproduktene. Dette inkluderer tiltak som gjør at bunnkakene kan prosesseres i Norge.

Prosjektpartnerne er primærprodusentene av aluminium i Norge, Alcoa (prosjekteier) og Hydro, behandler av biprodukter Real Alloy og forskningsinstituttet SINTEF. Bedriftspartnerne vil samarbeide på en unik måte hvor den samlede lønnsomhet og miljøprofil i verdikjeden er førende for praksis i de enkelte bedriftene. 

Årlig verdiskapingspotensial etter endt prosjekt er på 54,7 MNOK over en 10-årsperiode basert på en vektet gjennomsnittlig kapitalkostnad på 10 %. De langsiktige økonomiske gevinstene er estimert til 17,4 MNOK per år, mens kostnadene er estimert til 33,5 MNOK. Kostnadene er en kombinasjon av bedriftenes egeninnsats under prosjektets løp samt engangsinvesteringer. 

NoBAl svarer godt på FNs bærekraftmål ved et slikt godt nasjonalt samarbeid for maksimalt utbytte av sidestrømmer ved primæraluminiumsproduksjon. Det minsker samfunnets miljøbelastning og styrker industriens miljøprestasjon. Funnene og erfaringene vil bli delt med fagmiljøene og samfunnet.

Norsk Behandling av Biprodukter fra Aluminiumindustrien  (NoBAl)

Aluminium blir produsert gjennom elektrolyse i en Hall-Héroult reduksjonscelle der aluminiumoksid er råmaterialet som kontinuerlig blir tilført elektrolytten som holder en temperatur på ca 960 °C. Det oppløste aluminiumoksidet blir redusert til aluminium metal på den negative elektroden (katoden). Elektrolytten, også kalt badet, består av kryolitt (en forbindelse av natrium, aluminium og fluor) tilsatt aluminiumfluorid. Det er viktig å opprettholde riktig kjemisk sammensetning mellom aluminiumfluorid og natriumfluorid for at badet skal ha optimale betingelser. Aluminiumoksid inneholder små mengder natriumoksid, og når natriumoksid tilsettes elektrolysecella vil den kjemiske sammensetninga i badet gradvis endres og badet vil bli mer basisk (mer natriumrikt). For å opprettholde riktig kjemisk sammensetning må man derfor tilsette ekstra aluminiumfluorid. På denne måten vil man over tid akkumulere et overskudd av bad som må tappes av elektrolysecellene.
I prosjektets første fase skal to alternative ruter for prosessering bli undersøkt. Det er gjennomført et stort antall hydrometallurgiske forsøk, med mål om å kunne skille de to rutene. Så langt viser resultatene fra forsøkene at det blir mindre bad løst enn hva litteraturen skulle tilsi, dvs. flere prosesstrinn er nødvendig for å oppnå fullstendig gjenvinning.

Aluminium is produced in the Hall-Héroult reduction cell where aluminium oxide is the raw material that is continuously fed to the cell and is reduced at the cathode, creating aluminium. The bath or electrolyte contains a mixture of cryolite (sodium hexafluoraluminate), aluminium fluoride and calcium fluoride. The ratio between aluminium fluoride and sodium fluoride in the electrolyte is of importance for the properties of the electrolyte. Aluminium oxide contains a small amount of sodium oxide, and when this sodium oxide is fed to the electrolyte, the chemical composition of the electrolyte changes over time. Aluminium fluoride will then have to be fed to the cell in order to maintain the correct composition of the electrolyte and this generates a surplus of electrolyte that will have to be removed from the reduction cell from time to time. This electrolyte can be sold to opening aluminium plants. For several years, the aluminium industry has expanded enough to absorb most of the surplus electrolyte, but this market is now saturated, and the only option today is recovery or deposition. Deposition is not a preferred solution for an industry working towards a more circular economy. In the BADELand project, two thermodynamically promising processes for recovering the aluminium fluoride from the surplus electrolyte are proposed. Aluminium fluoride is a high value product and is today produced using a raw material (CaF2) identified as critical by EU. Avoiding the use of critical raw materials is favourable. The other side products of the processes might also turn out sellable if they are separable from each other through hydrometallurgical processes. In the project, the two processes will first be investigated experimentally in a laboratory, and the most promising process will be scaled up in a pilot line. The objective of the project is to get rid of a waste problem while creating products of value.

BADELand – Recovery of valuable surplus bath components from Aluminium Electrolysis

Norges aluminiumsindustri vil jobbe sammen i dette konsortsiet for å kvalifisere en bærekraftig løsning for å resirkulere 25 000 tonn med brukte ovnsforinger som hvert år deponeres i Norge. Prosjektet har som målsetning å redusere karbonavtrykket til prosessen og å lage en resikuleringsprosess som kan tilpasses alle aluminiumsprodusenter i verden. Dette vil vesentlig redusere behovet for deponering. Prosjektet sikter på å resirkulere 70% av materialene som høyverdiprodukt og de resterende med lavere verdi, de-toxifisert og som brukbare materialer i annen industri. Det første skrittet vil være å kvalifisere at de resirkulerte materialene har verdi som råvarer.
I prosjektet er det utført nye termodynamiske beregninger og laboratorieforsøk som viser at det er mulig å rense materialet. Det er gjennomført flere pilotskala tester, ut at ønskede resultat ble oppnådd på grunn av utstyrsutfordringer.

This project aim to develop a process that will produce valuable products from a material (spent potlining, SPL, from aluminium reduction cells) that is characterized as hazardous waste today and to a large degree deposited on landfill. 

Today the material is to a large degree deposited on landfill in Norway. Existing methods available for treatment, like leaching processes to extract the toxic components, are costly, where the carbon fraction is burned as an energy source and does not avoid landfilling. This innovation will focus on material recycling and moving the process of SPL treatment from the lower third of the pyramid, where today's processes dispose, treat and recover the energy, to the upper part of the pyramid, where the processes recycle and reuse the materials without increasing the carbon footprint. 
The planned innovation involves an improved process, based on a principle never demonstrated in large scale. The innovation will further give new and improved products compared to the original process described in the patent. The project builds on results from previous fundamental research and a pre-project that indicated a potential for the proposed process.

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BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Norsk Behandling av Biprodukter fra Aluminiumindustrien (NoBAl)

Tildelt: kr 10,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2025

Sted: Nordland - Nordlánnda

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

BADELand – Recovery of valuable surplus bath components from Aluminium Electrolysis

Tildelt: kr 16,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2021-2025

Sted: Nordland - Nordlánnda

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

NoDeSPoL-No depositon of spent potlining

Tildelt: kr 5,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2020-2024

Sted: Nordland - Nordlánnda