Departments at SINTEF Energy Research

The staff assists the research departments with specialist expertise in economics, HR, HSE, quality and safety, administration and operations.

Our main disciplines are thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, analysis and optimisation of energy processes, energy systems, and value chain analysis. We are about 70 research scientists divided into five teams: Mobility, Energy Processes, Process...

The department is engaged in thermal energy conversion processes. These include combustion, gasification and pyrolysis from energy sources such as fossil fuels, biomass and waste.

The department do R&D related to electric power technology, through analyses, testing and development of electric power equipment.

We perform modeling and analysis of energy systems with main focus on hydro power, new renewables and transmission grids. In particular, we develop optimization models for hydro power scheduling and transmission planning, perform modeling and...