Two different perspectives on innovation will be presented. The first one, given by SINTEF, with a research point of view and another one given by an experienced entrepreneur. The session will highlight the key role that research and innovation will play towards a more sustainable future

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Research is a part of the solution
ISES June 15th Trondheim
President/CEO SINTEF Unni Steinsmo
" In SINTEF you can dream the big dreams and make them come
true. "

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SINTEF 1950 – 2013: From a contract office at NTNU to one
of the largest contract research institutes in Europe
•CUSTOMERS: Annual turnover 3 billion NOK – Customers in 60
countries
•SCIENCE: International leading competence within natural
science, technology, health and social sciences.
•PEOPLE: 2,100 employees from 70 nationalities. 51% of our
researchers have a Ph.D.

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Our innovation model is a non linear model
From problem definition through
origination and refinement of ideas
to transformation into something useful
”
"Problems set and solved in the context of an application"

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Our ethical guidelines for research
½You must conform to the rules of science
½You must be honest
½You must be firm
½You must be generous
½You must be transparent
½You must be aware
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The need to build trust. We need a dialogue about the
social contract between the researcher and the society.

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This is our time. The great challenges. The great possibilities.
Our responsibility: To take care of the environment, To manage the resources,
to create the jobs of the future and the good society.

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The challenge: Energy use and Climate change
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Business as usual – 6DS
New policies – 4DS
Sustainable – 2DS
58 Gt
40 Gt
18 Gt
The world

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The possibility: Technologies
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Energy effiency
CCS
Renewable energy
The world

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Quest for fundamental
understanding ?
No Yes
Yes
No
Pasteurs Quadrant: basic science and technological
innovation Donald E. Stokes 1997
Pure basic
research
(Bohr)
Use-inspired
Basic research
(Pasteur)
Pure applied
research
(Edison)
We need all types of research! A holistic
approach, basic research, technology, knowledge about
people and society is needed to take the right decisions and
deliver the solutions.
Consideration of use

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The Research Council of Norway has
nominated research centres of high international standard to solve
various challenges in the fields of energy and the environment.
1. BIGCCS Centre – International CCS Research Centre
2. CEDREN - Centre for Environmental Design of Renewable Energy
3. CenBio - Bioenergy Innovation Centre
4. NOWITECH - Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
5. The Norwegian Research Centre for Solar Cell Technology
6. ZEB - The Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings
7. CenSES - Centre for Sustainable Energy Studies
8. CREE - Centre for Research on Environmentally friendly Energy

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State of the art post-combustion capture technologies have an
energy penalty on a power plant in the range of 7-10 percentage
points (with a CO2 capture rate of around 90%)
State of the art CO2 capture technologies are efficient
separation processes, and we should probably not expect
dramatic improvements in the overall performance of the
capture process
Research carried out by SINTEF and other organizations in recent
years have shown that emissions from CO2 capture plants is a
manageable problem
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CO2 capture technology is ready for commercial deployment
today

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CCS Developments in energy requirement for Post-Combustion
CO2 capture
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Electricity for flue
gas blower
Electricity CO2
compression
Steam for CO2
separation
Efficiency loss
Breakdown
%

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CCS In Salah gas field, Algeria
• InSAR monitoring has
measured accurate elevation of
the surface (10 to 40 mm)
corresponding to the extension
of CO2 plume 2000 m below.
• Surface monitoring of CO2
reviled a well leakage that was
quickly remediated

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CCS Example of monitoring: Biannual 3D seismic on Sleipner
Seismic profiles of the growing CO2 plume from 1994 to 2006
verifies that no CO2 has escaped

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Solar electricity- getting closer to grid parity
PV learning curve:
Source: Breyer and Gerlach, 2010
The steepest learning curve among renewable technologies - 22 % price reduction for every
cumulative doubling of capacity. Average annual growth 40 % last decade.

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Offshore Wind Cost savings by optimising spar buoy design

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Zero Emission Buildings: The ambition
Energy standard, single family houses in Norway
-100
-50
0
50
100
150
200
250
Today's
average
standard
Buildings
code, 2007
Passive
house
standard
Net zero
energy
Plus energy
Annuallyenergydemand/production:kWh/m2
Energy demand Energy production
Source: SINTEF Byggforsk

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The ZEB research activities: Five areas that interact and
influence each other
– WP1 Advanced materials technologies
– WP2 Climate-adapted low-energy envelope technologies
– WP3 Energy supply systems and services
– WP4 Use, operation, and implementation
– WP5 Concepts and strategies

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www.eera-set.eu
A partnership for sustainability: The European Energy
Research Alliance