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Research News from SINTEF and NTH

Environment and technology

1994/1995

  • Editors
  • Leader
  • WASTE
  • Norway do not need any central destruction facility for hazardous waste
  • Great need for new "environmental" products
  • Think globally - act locally
  • German interest in Norwegian wastecombustion furnace
  • One million environmentally friendly plastic packaging cases
  • Old corrugated containers given new life
  • OIL
  • Produced water - a North Sea environmental challenge
  • New weapons to combat oil spills
  • Environmental surveys around North Sea platforms
  • CO2
  • Norwegian continental shelf can be final depository for CO2
  • Could result in more oil
  • Underground return from Sleipner
  • Can scrub CO2 from power station flue gases
  • Turning exhaust into electricity
  • VIEWPOINT
  • Belief in technology is dead: environmentally friendly technology lives on
  • CONTAMINATED SOIL
  • Protecting groundwater beneath Gardermoen Airport
  • Going "underground"
  • Air to stop contamination
  • Turning over an old industrial site
  • Less contamination
  • Running the "Environmental Circle"
  • "Bubble bath" removes heavy metals
  • "Green" rock engineers from NTH
  • Bacteria remove PCBs
  • Profitable washing plant
  • Estimates of oil dispersal
  • Using electricity to clean up soil
  • Trials in contaminated ground
  • Breakthrough for bioreactor
  • AIR
  • New invention removes sulphur from coal-fired power stations
  • How the ELSORB process works
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • Substitutes for chemicals that break down ozone
  • Concentrating on new cooling media
  • Emissions of ozonedepleting gases by the norwegian fishing industry
  • The Montreal Protocol against CFC gases
  • A place of silence
  • WATER
  • Fish eggs susceptible to chemicals
  • Drop in consumption of antibiotics
  • Looking at pollution inside organisms
  • Bacteria in jelly purifies water
  • Cleaning system reduces feed waste in halibut farms
  • Fish farming can be new industry in inland districts
  • New light on the algae summer of 1988
  • Peat against heavy metals
  • Poor-quality water-supply and sewage pipes
  • Sludge: a resource
  • ENERGY
  • "Smart" electric motors could save a hydroelectric power plant
  • A challenge to Hitachi
  • River simulator will prevent conflicts
  • «Canned» river data
  • "Computer recipe" for salmon´s wellbeing
  • Daylight can cut electricity bills
  • "Greener" heat pumps on the way into office buildings
  • Small ammonia plants are next
  • Collects "free" heat
  • LIVING IN BUILDINGS
  • New latex paint evaporates least
  • Testing filters on the roof
  • Restoring Kristiansten Fort to its 1684 condition
  • Ventilation system improves indoor climate
  • TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT
  • Environmental assessment of controversial bridge over Øresund
  • Computer program predicts vehicle pollution
  • "Green" marine diesels ready for maiden tour
  • The emissions
  • The research
  • Environmental benifits
  • Double-bottomed ships
  • ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
  • Waste saved Elkem Bremanger
  • Facts about Elkem Bremanger
  • "Chemistry in charge"
  • Supercritical environmental clean-ups
  • The supercritical phase
  • Chipboard glue from cradle to grave
  • Bleaching paper with ozone
  • The great fuel-cell race
  • How a fuel cell works
  • Main types of fuelcells
  • The environment and environmental technology
  • HISTORY
  • Refuse to fuel cement furnace
  • "Scrubbing" brown coal in the Czech Republic
  • Fungus caused health problems
  • Water supply and sewage simulator
  • New type of gas bus comes to Trondheim
  • Mussels warn of pollution