SINTEF IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Alexandra Bech Gjørv CEO SINTEF One of Europe's largest independent research organization
2000 75 4000 Employees Nationalities Customers
NOK 3.1 billion NOK 450 MILL Revenues International sales A unique offering
• More than 55 percent PhDs • World class labs; from nano electronics and TEM microscopes, to huge multiphase flow, high voltage and ocean labs • Modelling, experimental results, big data and algorithms - digitalization of society from nano to macro scale Close working relationships generate innovation and high quality
BUSINESS Product development and the application of research results
THE UNIVERSITIES SINTEF Basic research and Multidisciplinary applied education contract research
4 Close to customers
Svalbard Tromsø
Mo i Rana
Trondheim Ålesund
Bergen Raufoss Herøya i Porsgrunn
Oslo Applied research, technology and innovation
Expertise from ocean space to outer space:
Renewable energy Ocean space Industry Buildings and Materials Micro-, nano- and infrastructure biotechnology
Climate and environment Oil and gas Health and welfare Society ICT Transport Technology for a better society Solutions to the grand challenges Circular economy - Why?
Kilde: Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
9 Increased demand of Materials and Metals
10 Source: "Mineraler for det Grønne Skiftet"-NGU Report Nov 2016 EU heavily depends on imported raw materials
EU Export/import 1400 EU Priority sectors: 1200 • Plastics • Food waste 1000
• Critical raw materials 800
• Construction and demolition 600 • Biomass and Bio-based products 400
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0 Biomass Manufactureds Fuel and minerals
Export Import
11 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/pdf/seminar/1%20DG%20ENV_Circular%20Economy%20package.pdf EU action plan for the Circular Economy
Production: From waste to resources: • Products designed for durability, reparability • Boosting the market for secondary raw and disassembly. materials and water reuse • Sustainable sourcing of raw materials and use • Recycled materials injected back to the of by-products in industrial symbioses economy as new raw materials
Consumption: Waste Management: • Changed consumer behavior • Reduce landfills, increase recycling • Economic instruments (Governmental • Improvements in waste collection and incentives) sorting • New forms for consumption (sharing economy, new business and consumption models) 12
Source: European Committee EU – Expected benefits
Economic growth Encouraging Job creation +7% GDP innovation 170 000 direct jobs in € 600 billions in savings waste management (8% of annual sectors created by 2035 turnover for business in the EU)
Boosting Reducing emissions competitiveness Building economic reducing total annual and ensuring security and environmental GHG emissions by 2-4% of supply resilience
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http://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/pdf/seminar/1%20DG%20ENV_Circular%20Economy%20package.pdf SINTEF'S CURRENT WORK RELATED TO CIRCULAR ECONOMY – SOME EXAMPLES Regeneration of wool
RegenWool: Investigating Wool Keratin Chemical Recycling as a Part of Applying a Circular Business Approach CYCLE: Total utilization of raw materials in the supply chain for food with a bio-economical perspective
Main goal: WP2 WP1 WP3 WP4 Bio- Introduce a holistic approach to improve resource Quality Processing Food safety and processing utilization in the Norwegian food chain by developing differentiation of waste logistics of loss knowledge and sustainable solutions for eco-friendly WP6: Dissemination and demonstration bio-processes and technology within a bio-economical WP5: Socio-economy: Market and consumer perspective WP7: Management WP6: Dissemination and demonstration Key results • Robotic automated releasing of chicken fillets from WP7: Management carcass • UpCycling Rest Raw Materials in the Meat Industry • New technological solutions for upcycling rest raw materials in the fisheries sector. 16 Use of plastic waste from the ocean as input to production
Main goal: Increased competitiveness for Norwegian industry based on shared value creation and sustainability where strategic, economic and societal needs meet. Main result: New circular business models by implementing new technology and competence on circular material streams. Website: www.sisvi.no 17 World class sorting solutions
"SINTEF is a key research partner for us in developing world-class, sensor-based sorting solutions. We have been working with them for more than 20 years in an extremely successful way." – Volker Rehrmann, Executive Vice President and CTO, Head of TOMRA Sorting Solutions
Waste Sorting Food Sorting Mining Sorting Reverse Vending Sorting SINTEF contribution: SINTEF contribution: SINTEF contribution: SINTEF contribution: High speed dedicated Dedicated high-accuracy Design of high-speed Dedicated spectroscopy, camera spectrometer design and spectrometer design and electromagnetic detection system design and data analysis data analysis for large volume geometry. Quantitative data for plastic bottles 18 belt sorting analysis in collaboration with Nofima A long-standing partnership with TOMRA
SINTEF begins developing optics and SINTEF develops miniature, SINTEF develops more robust camera system for sorting of plastic low-cost dedicated algorithms & hardware for bottle bottles with Tomra spectrometer recognition & fraud avoidance
SINTEF develops SINTEF develops several high-speed spectrometers, enabling Elopak Drinks Carton more flexible sorting of paper, plastic and other materials Sorter and from this develops world's first online sorter of Nofima & SINTEF Nofima & SINTEF Nofima & SINTEF adapt selected plastics adapt spectrometer optimise QVision500 Qvision500 to new food design for food quality for the meat industry sorting applications
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Qvision AS Tomra Tomra TiTech AutoSort founded by founded by acquires Tomra for the Tomra expands food founded by TiTech sorting by acquiring Petter & Tiedemanns food industry (now Ferd) Odenberg & BEST and Tore Plancke TiTech acquires merge with Qvision Real Vision activities System Gmbh Aerto – Value from Waste
1 Sustainable recovery, separation and reuse Goals: of scarce materials 1. Sustainable recovery, separation and reuse of scarce metals • Gold and copper from mobile phones and cobalt, nickel and rare elements from used batteries 2. Safe management of nanowaste
• Release of TiO2 nanoparticles during incineration • Environmental assessment of CeO2 nanoparticles Main deliverables: • Models for LCA for selected materials 2 Safe management of nanowaste • Inventories of waste streams containing critical materials • Methods for analysis and sensing of critical elements • Methods for extraction of selected critical materials • Techniques for recycling of polymer containing nanometals
20 Industrialized methods to reuse and recycle electronic waste Recognize objects, components and materials for selective dismantling
Electronics Identify Identify Identify assembly Electronics in use Collect waste system/object components materials
Reuse of components
Recycling of materials
21 Recovery of Rare Earth metals from permanent magnet and battery waste streams
H2020 REE4EU - Integrated High Temperature Electrolysis And Ion Liquid Extraction for a Strong and Independent European Rare Earth Elements Supply Chain
Website: www.ree4eu.eu REE4EU Consortium and Value Chain H2020 Eco-efficiency gains in the photovoltaic value chain Buildings and construction
25 RESGRAM – Recycling of waste banks Waste banks
Advanced, high- Waste transport capacity, cost-efficient plants
Optimal high quality treatment processes > 95%
Large capacity to meet market demand Recycling 27 GOING FORWARD WITH CIRCULAR ECONOMY Renewable energy, Strategic focus areas climate and environmental technology
• Transform key industries in Norway Enabling throgh use of enabling technologies technologies Health and welfare Ocean space technology • Establish new growth industries • Participate in strategic sharing around disruption and new value chains Oil and gas SINTEFs corporate strategic programme Competence building + business development (2016-2018)
Corporate strategic programme Value proposition to the market
Competence development Framework for holistic analysis of new business models • Enhanced cooperation between expert teams (economy, • Material flow analysis social sciences, technology and environment) • Techno-economic evaluation • New cross-disciplinary competence and skills • Life-cycle analysis
Business development Quantification of the potential contribution of new • Close cooperation and proximity to industry clusters technology and new business models • SINTEF Helgeland (Mo i Rana) – mining and process industry • SINTEF Tel-Tek (Herøya in Porsgrunn) – chemical industry • Profitability • SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing (Raufoss) – manuf. Industry • Environmental parameters • SINTEF Ålesund (Ålesund) – maritime sector • Sustainability indicators • + others (blue and green sector) 30 Markets
Network and communication SINTEF has taken theConceptualisinginitiative to establish a Top scientific Center for Research expertiseBased InnovationPlastic Packaging (SFI) within Circular Economy
31 Fisheries Centre for Research-based Innovation/ Senter for Forskningsdrevet Innovasjon - SFI
• A SFI is a long-term research effort where companies, research institutes and universities cooperate within a thematic area of high importance for our society • Typical numbers for a SFI: • 8 years duration • 250-300 mill NOK in turnover (contribution from the research council of Norway typ. 50%) • 10 PhD's educated • 500 mill NOK in affiliated projects • Requires international excellence • International scientific cooperation
32 • Strong commitment from industry partners "SFI Circular Economy – Industrial value creation in a Green Economy"
Initial/core partners:
We're aiming for success, which means going for quality and commitment from day one -> Consortium partners are welcomed!
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