Metal Production and Processing

Norwegian Aluminium and ferroalloys industries are today the cleanest and most energy-efficient in the world, resulting from a long tradition for continuous innovation, where SINTEF has played an important role.

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Nina Dahl

Research Director

Our research comprises the whole value-chain, from the extraction of minerals from the crust of the earth, through the production of metals and materials to the application and behavior of materials and end products. Recycling, urban mining and process waste valorization are important part of our activities.

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Advanced materials characterisation - Laboratory

The advanced materials characterization laboratory in Oslo develops techniques and makes use of advanced experimental facilities within the national infrastructure centers NORTEM, NICE, and NORFAB. It also employs modeling frameworks utilizing the...

Forming laboratory

A fully instrumented 800 tonnes laboratory press, equipped with advanced tools for extrusion and forging, together with our skilled research staff, constitutes the backbone of our forming activity.

Foundry and recycling laboratory

In our foundry and recycling laboratory we work with casting, recycling and melt treatment of metals such as aluminium, iron, steel, titanium, magnesium and copper-based alloys.

High throughput screening facility, Trondheim

The robotic screening facility at SINTEF are optimized for high throughput analytical and cultivation work and enables us to process of thousands of samples or cultures per day.

News

7. January 2025

Will strengthen Europe's supply of critical raw materials using hydrogen

An EU-funded project aims to achieve sustainable production of silicon and manganese by developing a new production method using renewable hydrogen and carbon recycling.

15. May 2024

Hydrogen can remove harmful emissions from energy-demanding industries

Both the glass and aluminium industries cast glass in furnaces that generate large volumes of greenhouse gases. Researchers believe that replacing natural gas with hydrogen will enable us to remove greenhouse gas emissions and promote smarter...

23. April 2024

Decarbonising the glass and aluminium industry

By replacing natural gas with hydrogen and safer and smarter production methods, an EU-funded project will decarbonise the glass and aluminum industry.

Projects

FME ZeMe

Start:: 2025
End:: 2032

FME ZeMe developes the fundamental knowledge and technologies needed by the Norwegian metallurgical industry to become climate neutral by 2050.

MECALO - Metal production with Carbon Looping

Start:: 2024
End:: 2028

The Mecalo project will use hydrogen to convert CO₂ emissions from metal production into a raw material that can be returned to the value chain. This way, the production of critical raw materials like silicon and manganese can be made CO₂-neutral...

NESA – New Emission Surveillance solutions for the Aluminium industry

Start:: 2024
End:: 2027

The project aims to develop and demonstrate methods for robust online sampling, modelling and prediction of heavy metal emissions associated with dust from the aluminium industry.

BioMet – Biocarbon in metal production-Transfer of research to industrial use

Start:: 2023
End:: 2026

Provide the knowledge needed to reduce fossil CO₂ emissions from Norwegian Ferroalloy and Si-production industry with 40% within 2030 by substituting fossil carbon with biocarbon.

Programvare

ALUSHEET, HYDSIM AND TEARSIM

Together with the process industry SINTEF has developed software for process optimisation.

Invent

Our Invent software automatically produces optimised plans for maritime transportation of bulk commodities, while keeping storage levels for production and consumption within limits. Typical application areas are transportation of Liquefied Natural...

SCORE – Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Core Development Project

The SCORE project is a software development project for creating a framework for handling cross disciplinary engineering problems involving fluid and solid mechanics with complex boundaries and free surfaces.

Sisim - A 3D model for silicon crystallisation

Sisim is a model for silicon crystallization processes. It is the product of collaboration between SINTEF and the Institute of Energy Technology, and is being developed within the Norwegian FME Center for Solar Cell Research with support from the...

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