Experiments at the world’s largest test center for CO2 capture
PhD candidate Rubén Mocholí Montañés, Department of Energy and Process Engineering, performed testing at Technology Center Mongstad (TCM) in July 2017. TCM, located 60 km outside Bergen, is the world’s largest test center for CO2 capture! Why is this testing important? The future European energy system will have a…
Back to the future – Using yesterday’s energy, today!
The storage of renewable energy is essential when aiming to replace readily stored fossil fuels. More than 80% of the world’s energy consumption is based on fossil energy. Fossils fuels like heavy oils and gasoline are governing the energy market worldwide. There are many environmental…
Best Poster after only Eight Months
PhD Candidate Ailo Aasen was awarded the prize for Best Poster at the conference Thermodynamics 2017, in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is impressive, as he started his PhD only eight months ago! In the poster, he presented some of our ongoing work to unravel the curvature dependence of the…
Playing around with a new software – a good enough reason to go abroad?
Not many people are aware that exhaust gasses from engines aboard oil platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf account for about as much CO2 emissions as all road traffic in Norway (see SSB statistics). These emissions are currently necessary to maintain oil production, but are…
Trondheim – building the foundation for the green transition
For the first time, a major European research infrastructure project is being led by a country from outside the EU. Trondheim has now become the EU capital of carbon management research, and we have no qualms about emitting just a few grammes of sparkling CO2 in celebration. Starting…
Does ‘green energy’ have hidden health and environmental costs?
There are a number of available low-carbon technologies to generate electricity. But are they really better than fossil fuels and nuclear power? To answer that question, one needs to compare not just the emissions of different power sources but also the health benefits and the threats…
LNG: How to predict an explosive boiling accident
My PhD project is about making marine production and shipping of liquefied natural gas (LNG) safer. Natural gas is very important for the Norwegian economy. In fact it recently surpassed oil, making it Norway’s largest export in terms of revenue. While it is a fossil…
TEDx talk: The Carbon footprint of consumption
Did you remember to turn off the lights before leaving home? Did you cut your shower short this morning? While these issues are important in decreasing your carbon footprint, I argue that how you spend money is significantly more impactful: See also “Household consumption significant…
Find something that moves, and simulate it!
The overall goal of the System Simulation course is to give the students exercise in model, program, simulate and analyze dynamical problems where multiple engineering fields are present. The course gives the students training in breaking down complex problems to simple model elements and formulate these mathematically. The course ends with a…
Knowledge, friendship and cooperation: NTNU and China
The energy challenge is a global problem that demands global solutions. A partnership between NTNU and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China that began in 2010 is an excellent example of exactly the kind of global cooperation the world needs to address this challenging problem….