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INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION
The international conference
“Silicon for Solar and
Chemical Industry”
in Kristiansand, June 13-15, was
organized by NTNU and SFI Metal Production with
Professor Merete Tangstad in charge. The conference
focused on silicon production and primary chemical
processes and the aim of the conference was to discuss
silicon process technology, silicon quality assessment
and performance in the subsequent chemical reactions.
Resource, energy and environmental were important is-
sues. A total of 140 Norwegian and international dele-
gates from producers, users and academia, found this
conference extremely interesting.
The
2nd School on Manganese Ferroalloy Production
took place at MINTEK, Johannesburg, South Africa
at the end of June 2016. Professor Merete Tangstad
(NTNU) and senior researcher Eli Ringdalen (SINTEF)
were responsible for this second School on Manganese
Ferroalloy Production. These schools were built on the
collaboration between South Africa and Norway, and be-
tween individuals within the South African manganese
industry, by including a larger number of local partic-
ipants. The focus of the event was the identification of
techno economic challenges faced by decision makers
in the South African manganese industry, and finding
ways to address these challenges.
Some of our scientist and students were visiting
RWTH
Aachen University
in July. The scope of this seminar was
a) to make plans for a common seminar for recycling
of aluminium and b) Present SFI Metal Production and
the possibilities for student exchange between RWTH
Aachen and NTNU.
In 2016,
six exchange students
from five different coun-
tries, have been visiting and worked for the SFI centre
under the supervision of scientists and professors form
SINTEF and NTNU. These students have been working
hard during their stay in Trondheim, and we are pleased
with the research they have added to the centre. Some
of the exchange students are a result of already exist-
ing networks and international cooperation and some
of them are “new” and have given us the opportunity to
build new international networks.
Professor Merete Tangstad was invited to join an
EU
Horizon 2020 – FET
(Future Emerging Technologies)
OPEN project with the title AMADEUS. The project got
funding and will investigate the next generation mate-
rials and solid-state devices for ultra-high temperature
energy storage and conversion.
Our professors, students and research scientist continuously collaborate with international
researcher groups during their daily work, through their existing network, participations
at
conferences, seminars, dialogue
and so on. Some of the international collaboration will
shortly be listed here.
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