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New Catapult Centers for us
Christian Michelsen Research, CMR Prototech and NORCE are partners in two new Catapult Centers. The new catapult centers were published by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Torbjørn Røe Isaksen, during the Siva conference in Trondheim.
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Prototech's space activities in Dagens Næringsliv
We have worked towards the space industry for more than 25 years and the activity the last couple of years is no exception
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Xsens found the solution
Xsens is picked out to present their technology at ONS 2018. A clamp-on solution that gives quality results on the measurements and lowers risk and saves money for the clients.
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Taking space technology into ocean industry and aquaculture
What happens when you multiply the potential of space technology with ocean industry and aquaculture? The answer is given at Ocean X Space in Stavanger 22nd - 24th 2018.
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Prototech with hardware delivery to the climate observatory ASIM at the International Space Station
The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) was successfully launched on April the 2nd by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. On board was equipment delivered by Prototech.
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Acoustic fiber used for measuring various types of traffic congestion
CMR knowledge is now used to measure various types of traffic congestion. Owner of the project is Statens Vegvesen, Norway.
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Sailbuoy- a tool for the development of ocean industries
Our Sailbuoy (produced by Offshore Sensing) and two other unmanned ocean vehicles (gliders) will be deployed outside Bodø next week. The vehicles will be operating on the Norwegian shelf, in Vestfjorden and outside the Lofoten and Vesterålen Islands.
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Opens up access to the Field Kelvin Probe Test Lab
Christian Michelsen Research recently opened a laboratory facility to assist pioneering work on the Field Kelvin Probe (FKP). Now you can order access to this facility for analysis of samples.
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Students got ABB Prize
Students from the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences got ABB Prize for initiative and multidisciplinary in a bachelor's thesis connected to our Field Kelvin Probe Project.
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NORCE - A pioneer in Norwegian Research and Innovation
Forskningsselskapet SørVest AS launches its new name. The company's formal registered company name will be Norwegian Research Centre AS.
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Asking for Norwegian floating offshore wind
120 enthusiasts from research and business gathered at the breakfast meeting. Their focus is to find a way to build floating offshore wind farms in Norway.
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Elisabeth Maråk Støle appointed managing director of Forskningsselskapet SørVest AS
Elisabeth Maråk Støle comes from the position as managing director of Møreforskning AS. She was born in 1968, is a graduate economist and has broad experience from industry, business and research, and is very familiar with the university and university college sector. She has extensive management experience and holds a number of directorships in private and state-owned companies.
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Our TIME SCALE hardware delivery is handed over
Prototech AS has designed and manufactured a breadboard version of the Plant Cultivation Chamber which will be used in food production on planned space trips towards March. This chamber will be used for plant cultivation during the ground testing of the TIME SCALE equipment.
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The last pieces for Mapping The Solar System
These Days we have completed our Mission. Designing and manufacturing hardware which is sent into the Universe. These components will travel a distance five times longer than the distance to reach The Moon.
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RockStore got 10,5 MNOK from The Research Council
The RockStore Project got this support in tough competition. The goal is to develop smart solutions for storage of energy in the underground. This project is lead by Christian Michelsen Research and brings on partners from both industry, research and public partners as NVE, ENOVA and Norwegian municipalities. There are also international partners in the project.
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Greece searching for Green Energy Solutions
Elisabeth S. Sørheim from The Municipality of Bergen and CMR welcomes representatives from the Island Andros. A Island in the Cyclades, two hours from Athens. They are looking for Green Solutions for their energy need.
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CMR helps companies in Hordaland with research-based innovation
CMR has won a contract with Hordaland county council as competence broker. The contract is part of the Research-based Regional Innovation (FORREGION) scheme.
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Creating a tool for understanding multidimensional data
25 scientists and students are testing out software from CMR in an earthquake workshop. The Enlighten-web tool from CMR is an important part of a new Norwegian e-infrastructure for Solid Earth Sciences.
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High political focus on renewable in Poland
CMR is through the EEA Grant Projects GeoHeat Pol and Geotherma 4PL, an expert for Poland in theirs efforts in developing renewable solutions. A new EEA Grant Renewable Energy Programme is under negotiations and next year a new agreement with Norway can be ready to follow up the suggestions from these research projects.
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NASA Legend visited CMR Prototech
NASA legend "Pete" Worden visited us Tuesday 31st of October to follow up potential opportunities for cooperation. We had an open meeting at our Auditorium with great stories.
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Transfer of geothermal knowledge
The gathering was opened by Bergen City Council Leader Harald Schjelderup and ended by concert at Edvard Griegs home Troldhaugen. CMR and Sweco together with the National Energy Authority of Iceland and polish experts led by Polish Academy of Science had a week study visit in Bergen. The goal is to get up the best solutions for energy efficience and geothermal heat pump solutions for selected cities in Poland.
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High Tech Collaboration in Robotics and Digitalisation
This is what we hope will happen after the norwegian visit to Japan. The visit- initiated by the GCE Node Innovation Cluster- took researchers from south and west of Norway to Tokyo to talk to potential collaboration partners.
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Geothermal energy- an answer for selected areas in Poland
EEA Poland Grant Project, GeoHeatPol meets in Bergen this week. Researchers and experts from Poland, Island and Norway will be discussing how Geothermal energy can be a basis for low-emission space heating, improving living conditions and sustainable development in Poland.
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Prototech delivers flight equipment for NASA’s Orion spacecraft
CMR Prototech has designed and qualified hydrophobic filters. These will be used in the European Service Module, which is ESA’s contribution to the manned NASA’s Orion spacecraft.
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GLIDER Unmanned Ocean Exploration Project 2017
The Sailbuoy invented at Christian Michelsen Research and now put into production by Offshore Sensing AS, is one of the tested autonomous underwater vehicles in The Glider Unmanned Ocean Exploration Project 2017.
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Testing on and new partners in
CHEOP, the story about the fuel cell concept that delivers 32 megawatts from fuel cells running on natural gas and hydrogen, continues. We are now in Phase 1 and CMR Prototech is ready for testing the robust 10 kW solid oxide fuel cell which will be ideal for offshore use.
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Successful student project: STARBURST
Last week, success was a fact. In the student summer job project STARBURST led by Kongsberg, and where Prototech employed and mentored the student Fredrik Samdal Solberg, a stratospheric balloon was sent up in the air on Andøya.
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We are hiring
CMR seeking experienced senior scientist within acoustics and ultrasound.
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Solving mathematical problems makes them happy
Solving mathematical problems for government and industry using their knowledge in uncertainty analysis of complex systems, makes Camilla Sætre and Astrid Marie Skålvik happy.
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New Mobile Motion Lab at CMR
In cooperation with the University of Agder, Christian Michelsen Research has established a mobile 6DOF hexapod platform solution for performing motion tests and measurements, as extension to the existing Motion Lab facilities at UiA in Grimstad.
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4 Million NOK for fully automated QA loop for 4.0 engineer-to-order manufacturing
CMR scientist Ove Daae Lampe and collegues from IFE and Møreforsking had great fun for three days. They also succeded in landing financial support, 4 Mill NOK "sandpit" funding for this project.
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10 Million kroner for verification funding
The Norwegian Research Council has granted 10 million Norwegian Kroner to fund the verification of fibre optic based tunnel monitoring technology being developed at CMR. CMR is carrying out the main research components of this project. The project is lead by Bergen Teknologioverføring (BTO), with Trafsys AS as industrial partner.
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Max Planck and CMR cooperation
Scientists at Christian Michelsen Research are currently developing, together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research (Germany), the Field Kelvin Probe (FKP). This FKP will enable contactless detection of hidden corrosion. Recently CMR projectleader for FKP, Florin Turcu, met Martin Stratmann, The President of the Max Planck Society.
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Kjetil Haukalid: Now philosophiae doctor in physics
CMR-scientist Kjetil Haukalid recently had his defense for the degree of philosphieae doctor (PhD) in physics at the University of Bergen (UiB). His thesis named "Formation of gas hydrates studied by means of broad-band permittivity measurements", was accepted by the evaluation committee.
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Creating a new generation of smart sensors
Christian Michelsen Research is the main technology partner for the Bergen based engineering company SENTEC in developing low cost wireless smart sensor technology for monitoring of pressure safety valves (PSVs). The products, based on Bluetooth technology, will be launched worldwide this Spring.
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Fuel cells running on natural gas and hydrogen
Teknisk Ukeblad tells the story. The story about the fuel cell concept that delivers 32 megawatts from fuel cells running on natural gas and hydrogen. A technology developed by CMR Prototech in cooperation with Statoil and Shell.
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New partners in sensors and geothermal
Associate Professor Mona Mihailescu from University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania visited CMR. She is also due to visit Iceland where her other partner in green energy is situated.
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Save money with our knowledge
Our scientist are experts in analyzing cost saving metering station maintenance for allocation systems. Next week Ranveig Nygaard Bjørk will present this at the European Flow Measurement Workshop 2017 in the Netherlands.
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We are mapping the dark Universe
Euclid is an ESA-mission to map the geometry of the dark Universe with lift-off in 2020. Our company CMR Prototech is designing and building hardware to the spacecraft on behalf of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo and European Space Agency (ESA).
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Bridge to the future
Director of NORCOWE, Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa participated in a roundtable conversation with leader of EL & IT-league, Jan Olav Andersen.
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Building payloads for a stratospheric balloon and launch of a sounding rocket
So cool can it be. The summer job in the STARBURST project that Fredrik S. Solberg will have at CMR Prototech, will also involve a whale safari and midnight sun at Andøya Space Center.
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CMR spin-off raised NOK 25 million in venture capital
Just before Christmas 2016 Xsens AS raised NOK 25 million in venture capital from ProVenture and Investinor. Xsens invents new cost-reducing ultrasound technology to monitor oil flow.
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A unique second-generation tomograph is developed
A new gamma-ray tomograph designed to image up to 4” diameter pipes, is developed by CMR Prototech for the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) in Canada.
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Application for 6 MEUR from EU
CMR recently joined a large European consortium consisting of researchers and industry partners to demonstrate that aluminium (Al) could be a competitive substitute of the traditional iron-based alloys in subsea and marine applications.
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UiB and CMR in high-tech collaboration
Last week students from UiB came to experiment with an ultra-high-speed camera on a mission to aid with troubleshooting the Field Kelvin Probe currently under development.
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Distributed seismic monitoring for geological carbon sequestration
This project "DAS for CCS" is a low-cost technique that fits well into the portfolio of monitoring techniques needed to secure safe injection and containment of CO2. It is given 10 Mill. NOK by CLIMIT.
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The Green Fish Farm Concept
Fully closed fish farm concepts need to cover the handling of the large volumes of generated waste. These extra measures can bring both economical and environmental benefits. This is The Green Fish Farm Concept, it gives us a industrial revolution.
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SUCCESS at Brumundal
The Brumundal sandstone reservoir represents an analogue to relevant reservoirs for CO2 storage offshore. Here Per Aagaard (UiO) enthusiastically guides a field trip in the area for experts meeting at The SUCCESS Fall Seminar 2016.
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Rebuilding for hydrogen
M/Y “Che Guevara”, previously owned by Gaddafi, will be converted to run on hydrogen. Greenstat will lead the project and are seeking partners.
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Increase your competence in flow measurement!
Learn about the technologies behind multiphase measurement from our experienced scientists. New courses coming up this November.
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CMR about allocation uncertainty at North Sea Flow Measurement
In times with increased focus on risk minimization and cost-efficiency in the oil and gas sector, it is more important than ever to understand the uncertainty involved in the distribution of produced oil and gas amongst contributing parties, so-called allocation.
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Space summer job?
Space technology and satellite surveillance is in rapid development. STARBURST is the first national, cross-industrial summer project within NewSpace! Apply now! The job is paid.
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New knowledge for corrosion detection
In 2015 CMR began 3 new projects in the field of corrosion detection. In groundbreaking work, funded by the Research Council of Norway, Statoil, and Gassco, new ideas in detecting corrosion through organic coatings and steel walls, will be tested. This autumn our scientists were among the presenting guests at the latest international corrosion congress (Eurocorr 2016, Montpellier 12th – 15th September).
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Designing the energy solutions for autonomous airships
The Stratobus project is led by Thales Alenia Space (TAS). It is a new concept for an autonomous airship, operating at an altitude of about 20 kilometers. Our company CMR Prototech has been chosen by Thales Alenia Space to supply the platform’s energy storage system.
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"Maud" returns home
CMR had two men hired at «Maud”, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and Odd Dahl. Both helped Roald Amundsen to get his project through and this highly scientific expedition could be realized. Sverdrup was scientific leader from 1918 till 1925, while Odd Dahl was hired as pilot and filmmaker on the last three years of the expedition.
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The impact of NORCOWE
"NORCOWE has been instrumental for StormGeo’s positioning in the [offshore wind] market, " StormGeo’s vice president Renewables Jostein Mælan declared at NORCOWE 2016.
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Improving international standards on vented hydrogen explosions
Gexcon a company in the CMR Group, coordinates the EU-funded project HySEA. The main purpose of the project is to conduct pre-normative research on vented hydrogen deflagrations in containers and smaller enclosures, with an aim to improve international standards.
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Sing as a whale at Researchers Days
At Researchers Days 2016 CMR will be playing together with researchers from both Bergen University College and Institute of Marine Research.
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Gaia-facts reaching ground control
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first data from the Gaia mission, which has the tremendous task of building the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way.
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Fish finding with autonomous surface vehicles for the pelagic fisheries
This time CMR-scientist Rune Hauge takes his knowledge to USA and "OCEANS 16". The results from the trip to the very north of Norway last winter, will be spread among all kind of marine scientists from all around the world.
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Winners ONS Innovation Awards: TechInvent and Island Offshore/Centria
TechInvent reached this goal by prototypinghelp from our company CMR Prototech.
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Visit us at ONS 2016
You can meet Magne Husebø from CMR company XSENS at the Innovation Park and CMR researchers will be present all week at Clean Energy Park, hall 9 stand 931.
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Take control on your environmental gas emissions
In March 2016 the Norwegian Environmental Directorate issued a report concerning methane and NMVOC (Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compound) emissions. CMR can provide the instruments for such actions.
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Prototech- helping dreams come true
Alf Egil Stensen woke up one night. His idea was born. Years later and also by prototypinghelp from CMR Prototech, Stensen has succeeded. The dream about FluidCom came true.
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What about CO2 storage?
"Sysla Grønn" and CMR gives lessons in their Energy Academy: Today CO2 storage.
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Improving industrial safety performance in Vietnam
Vietnam has seen a dramatic increase in number of accidents and loss of containments which correlates to the strong industrial growth in the country. The recent agreements with Gexcon are part of the Government’s commitment to reduce the number of accidents and prevent injuries, fatalities and environmental emissions.
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Four projects receive verification funding
CMR Science and Technology are among the partners granted funding from the FORNY2020 programme. The project Well Mend is granted 8.5MNOK in government support to further develop a novel method for well repair.
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CMR at Japan Science Week
CMR will attend the Japan Norway Arctic Science Week 2016, taking place between 30 May and 3 June.
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No new FME money
CMR was involved in three initiatives. None was given credit by the government.
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New FME Centres to be announced this week
CMR is heavily involved in three initiatives: Geothermal energy, offshore wind energy and zero maritime energy solutions.
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SIVA PRIZE
Associated ZERO Maritime partner NCE Maritime Cleantech, won the SIVA Prize last week.
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UTC 2016: “Lean Subsea – the way forward"
UTC 2016 will be the 22nd Underwater Technology Conference, and 900 professionals and 60 exhibitors are expected to attend the conference.
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Greenstat enters into partnership with NEL ASA
The CMR company GREENSTAT has entered into a partnership agreement with NEL ASA (NEL). The task is to develop large- and small scale hydrogen production facilities in Norway based on renewable energy.
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Runners Up in Fishackathon
Fishackathon Bergen will help bring marine resource management into the 21st century by uniting budding and established app developers and unite them around the theme of sustainable global fisheries. CMR researchers Ove Daae Lampe and Armin Pobitzer formed one of the teams in Bergen. They won Runners Up.
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Euclid Dark Universe Mission
Euclid is an ESA mission to map the geometry of the dark Universe. CMR company Prototech is designing and building hardware to the spacecraft on behalf of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo and European Space Agency (ESA).
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CMR competes in Fishackaton
Fishackathon Bergen will help bring marine resource management into the 21st century by uniting budding and established app developers and unite them around the theme of sustainable global fisheries. CMR researchers Ove Daae Lampe and Armin Pobitzer form one of the teams in Bergen. They will try to win using their cutting edge knowledge, bringing up the best idea.
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Motion Lab got 8 million NOK
Parts of this is given CMR to establish mobile infrastructure for 3D motion compensation research.
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CMR helps kiters race
At the end of March 350 kiters from over 30 nations competed on the mountain plains of Hardangervidda. Knowing that wind is their most important resource, CMR was there providing realtime data.
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A Master's Degree at CMR
Nelson Thambiraj takes his Master at CMR Prototech. Senior researcher Ivar Wærnhus helps him through. UiB tells their story at their webpage.
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Helping the kiters getting the data
350 kiters will in a mass start, compete on the plains of the Hardangervidda this week. CMR will measure the wind conditions during this race using our lidars.
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Learn about Valerie's assessment of wake meandering
In 2009 we started hosting NORCOWE, one of two national research centres on offshore wind. The NORCOWE annual report 2015 is now available.
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Svalbard can use geothermal energy
Geothermal energy may be an alternative for heating and energy production for the settlements on Svalbard. Geothermal energy is a stable and reliable energy source with low impact on the environment and available when needed regardless of season or weather.
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Zero Lice with AkvaVis?
Scientist Tom Kjøde directed the questions too the global fish farming industry in Bergen this week.: What if we could model the effect of different sea lice countermeasures and combine with a decision support system? Would it allow fish farmers to make better decisions?
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Developing new functionalities in LSSS
As a part of the SEEBED project we at CMR together with IMR, are developing new functionalities in LSSS for processing and visualizing data from broadband echo sounders.
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ZeroMaritime
The main research task of ZeroMaritime is to enable, develop, and demonstrate zero and low emission system solutions for the maritime industry. On the 26th of May The Norwegian Research Council gives a YES or NO to the establishment of this national research centre.
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The first hydrogen car ferry in Norway
CMR Prototech is planning to install hydrogen fuel cells on the Osterøy car ferry “MF Ole Bull”. The ferry will be the first car ferry in Norway to use hydrogen as fuel.
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Delivering solid Earth Science for Norway and Europe
Researchers from CMR are contributing in establishing a Norwegian e-infrastructure to integrate data from the seismological and geodetic networks, as well as data from geological and geophysical data repositories. This work will comprise data integration, development of a web portal and of visualization and processing tools.
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CMR tool in herring hunt
LSSS helps fishermen reading echosounders. Last week it found the herring for "Libas" and IMR.
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Zero Village Bergen
CMR is involved in two research projects that investigates the potential for thermal energy storage solutions for this area. Now we are fighting for political support.
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The Sailbuoy plays with Whales
Scientists at CMR last week ended up playing with whales in the sea outside Tromsø, near Vengsøy. Their target was fish finding with an echosounder equipped Sailbuoy, but whales also like fish and they got company.
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Collecting new offshore wind facts
New collected observational data will be used to validate and improve numerical models and tools for i.e. weather forecasting, marine operations and wind farm layout optimization.
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Going Live for LoVe
72 million Nok is given to live survey in The Lofoten-Vesterålen Cabeled Ocean Observatory (LoVe). This is a Norwegian infrastructure programme for marine research, live monitoring and subsea technology development.
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Fish Hunting with our Sailbuoy
- This looks great. Maybe we and other fishermen can use one together to locate the fishes we are hunting for. Fisherman Olav Dale from Dales Rederi is very interested in this revolutionary innovation from Offshore Sensing and CMR.
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Finding the key to efficient and sustainable fishing.
Early information on the expected fish size distribution is the key to efficient and sustainable fishing. The aim of the DABGRAF-project is to estimate the fish size distribution of a school based on data from a sideward pointing wideband echosounder.
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Looking into Geological History
A 2,5 km deep borehole was drilled in Åre (Sweden) with the purpose of understanding how major mountain belts of Alpine-Himalayan dimensions developed over a period of 500 million years. CMR’s part in the project was to provide advanced fibreoptic distributed temperature sensing.
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Hunting the good offshore wind
-Our goal is to increase power production by two to three percent. Such an increase will generate a lot of money for a wind farm living in 20 to 30 years, says scientist Yngve Heggelund.
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The Prime Minister is looking for ideas at CMR
Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Tine Sundtoft, Minister of Climate and Environment, are looking into the new ideas of green competitiveness. Their experts met us last week.
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CMR Prototech visits Brazil
Together with the University of Bergen, Bergen University College and GCE Subsea, Prototech last week visited multiple Universities and research institutes in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The main purpose of the trip was however two meetings with Petrobras at their research centre (CENPES) in Rio.
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Bridging the gap
A large measurement campaign in an offshore wind farm.
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New plans for national research on offshore wind
In 2009 CMR and Sintef started up NORCOWE and NOWITECH, Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME). This has given international visibility and position.
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Won the best paper award
The shared presentations of Engie, CMR, FMC and Metropartner, regarding installation effects on ultrasonic gas flowmeters, won the best paper award of this year's workshop at The International North Sea Flow Measurement Workshop in Tønsberg.
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Measuring the Wind
The Measurement Campaign is managed by CMR through NORCOWE.
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Invited to The Norwegian Parliament
NORCOWE met the politicians in The Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment for a talk about offshore wind energy.
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Kelvin Probe for through-wall detection
A Kelvin Probe for through-wall detection of internal corrosion on pressure vessels will be made. Christian Michelsen Research AS recently started a collaborative project with Statoil Petroleum AS and Gassco AS, which enables the development of the Field Kelvin Probe (FKP) - an innovative instrument for the detection of internal corrosion on offshore pressure vessels.
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New Flow Courses
Let the Experts Teach You Industrial Flow Measurement and Uncertainty!
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Subsea gas leakages can be inspected from the mainland
Managing oil and gas leakages from subsea structures by using divers and remote controlled robots is expensive.
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TiZir goes green with Greenstat
The factory in Tyssedal producing high purity pig iron (HPPI) and titanium slag will substitute coal with hydrogen. Their need for hydrogen is so large that there is a market for building a hydrogen factory. This task is taken on by Greenstat and CMR. The change in production process at TiZir leads the way for large scale hydrogen production based on environmental friendly energy.