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JetZero Partners with SHZ to Explore Liquid Hydrogen-Powered All-Wing Aircraft

US-based aircraft developer JetZero has partnered with French startup SHZ Advanced Technologies to explore a hydrogen-powered version of its Z4 all-wing design. Under the agreement, the clean aircraft venture will support SHZ in adapting its patented liquid hydrogen storage and distribution technologies for a Z4 variant, expected to deliver...

Air Products Successfully Completes First Liquid Hydrogen Fill of the World’s Largest Hydrogen Sphere at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Image: Air Products Air Products (NYSE:APD), the world’s leading supplier of hydrogen, today announced it has successfully completed the first fill of the world’s largest hydrogen sphere at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Kennedy Space Center located on Merritt Island, Florida. NASA uses liquid hydrogen combined with liquid...

Fusion’s physics is solved, but its future hinges on breakthroughs in cryogenic steels and other materials that can withstand the extreme demands inside reactors.

Scientists Have Developed ‘Super Steel’ That Could Take Fusion To The Next Level

The physics of fusion energy is no longer the great unknown. Scientists are confident that if you confine superheated plasma at nearly 100 million °C using heavy hydrogen isotopes, you’ll get a self-sustaining reaction capable of delivering abundant, clean power. The real challenge now lies elsewhere: finding materials that can...

GenH2’s Liquid Hydrogen Innovation Earns NASA Nomination for Prestigious Invention of the Year Award

Image: GenH2 Company’s Cryostat CS500 Recognized for Commercialization of NASA-Developed Technology with Honorable Mention TITUSVILLE, FL, UNITED STATES — GenH2 Corp., a Path2 Hydrogen Company, a leader in liquid hydrogen infrastructure solutions, announced today that NASA nominated its Cryostat CS500 simulation test platform at the Kennedy Space Center for the agency’s prestigious Commercial Invention...

Quantum Breakthrough: Scientists Find “Backdoor” to 60-Year-Old Superconducting Mystery

Scientists in Copenhagen have built an artificial platform to mimic elusive quantum states in superconductors, bypassing decades-old detection challenges. A Copenhagen team has unlocked a clever “backdoor” into studying rare quantum states once thought beyond reach. Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have discovered a new approach...

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Capturing CO₂ Through Cryogenics: Eiffage Pioneers New Technology to Decarbonize Its Industry

The installation, a metal tower 11 meters high, flanked by a container and two tanks, one for storing liquid nitrogen and the other for capturing carbon dioxide, could almost go unnoticed beside the two enormous lime kilns that continuously transform limestone, extracted from a quarry owned by Bocahut, into calcium...

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Cold Compressors

A common way to provide cooling below the normal boiling point of helium (4.2K) is to reduce the pressure above the bath of liquid helium, thus also reducing the bath’s equilibrium saturation temperature. For example, to produce a 1.8K bath of liquid helium, the saturation pressure has to be reduced...

Kapitza Conductance

Kapitza conductance refers to the heat transfer between a solid surface and a fluid that covers that surface. Fundamentally, it describes the inherent difficulty in transferring energy from a solid to the fluid covering the solid surface. This phenomenon was first observed by P. L. Kapitza in 1941 while studying...

Thermosyphons

A thermosyphon (or thermosiphon) is a device that transfers heat via natural convection in a fluid. The natural convection is driven by gravity with the colder, denser fluid flowing downhill and the warmer, less dense fluid flowing back up. Thus, thermosyphons connect an object to be cooled with a reservoir...

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Cryogenic Electronics

Randall Kirschman, consulting physicist, Mountain View, California ExtElect@gmail.com Cryogenic electronics—the operation of electronic devices, circuits, and systems at cryogenic temperatures—has been a valuable technology for decades. Cryogenic electronics (also referred to as low-temperature electronics, or cold electronics) can be based on semiconductive devices, on superconductive devices, or on a combination...

Particle Physics: High Energy Physics

Cryogenics and High-Energy Physics 1. From symmetry magazine: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000627: Cryogenics is the study of how materials behave at temperatures near absolute zero. In high-energy particle accelerators, such frigid temperatures reduce the electrical resistance of wires in superconducting magnets, increasing the magnet strength and allowing faster particle acceleration. The same holds...

HTS Degaussing Systems

From the Spring 2009 issue of Cold Facts (Volume 25, Number 2): Thanks to a joint project by the US Navy and a number of industry partners, high temperature superconducting (HTS) technology is now at the heart of an advanced degaussing system aboard the USS Higgins at the naval station...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

From http://www.superconductors.org: An area where superconductors can perform a life-saving function is in the field of biomagnetism. Doctors need a non-invasive means of determining what’s going on inside the human body. By impinging a strong superconductor-derived magnetic field into the body, hydrogen atoms that exist in the body’s water and...

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An Issue of Pressure and Flow Rate in a Supply Tank

Please help solve this problem: A supply tank requires a vaporizer to generate sufficient pressure to pump stored fluid up into a vehicle or tank. The available head is limited as the tank level falls and it is important to minimize the system pressure drop to maintain the desired flow...

Using MLI on VJ Line Joints or Cryo Storage Tanks

When installing Multi Layer Insulation (MLI) blankets on VJ line joints or cryo storage tanks should they be wrapped and tied down tight or loose? These are usually pre-cut to size. Also should they have an access hole at the point of where the molecular sieve is installed to help...

Separated layers of ice over a pipe

I want to know that why there are different layers of ice over a pipe carrying a cryogenic fluid, each layer separated with clear marks / lines? What do these layers signify?

Using nitrogen as a cryogen

Is it possible to achieve -200˚C using nitrogen as a cryogen?

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