FSU Vice President receives Francis G. Slack Award
Kirby W. Kemper, who has served as Florida State University's vice president for research for the past eight years, has received the 2010 Francis G. Slack Award.
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Horst Simon named Deputy Director of Berkeley Lab
Horst Simon has been named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Carl Wieman named Associate Director for Science in the OSTP
Carl Wieman, a Nobel-prize-winning physicist, has been confirmed by the US Senate as Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), according to physicsworld.
Berkeley Lab considers expanding to second site
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which currently sits on just 200 acres, is starting to make plans for a second facility.
LHC discovers “unusual” readings
CERN has issued a statement that the LHC has stumbled across some "unusual" readings which may pave the way for the first significant scientific breakthroughs, an exciting prospect for the particle physics community.
LLNL plans to hire hundreds of new employees
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has announced plans to hire as many as 300 new employees before the end of the year.
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Space Cryogenics
Space cryogenics is, somewhat obviously, the application of cryogenics to space exploration and science. The use of cryogenics in space optimizes the launching of vehicles, provides power and life support to spacecraft and is critical for many scientific observations.Space cryogenics has a number of challenges and has driven both pure...
Exergy
The science of thermodynamics plays a major role in cryogenics. It underlies the various refrigeration cycles, from Carnot to Brayton (Cold Facts Vol. 32 No. 2) and Joule-Thomson, is a fundamental part of the definition of terms such as coefficient of performance (Cold Facts Vol. 31 No. 1) and even...
Cryogenic Treatment
Cryogenic treatment is the process of cooling materials to cryogenic temperatures temporarily to improve their material properties at room temperature. This is distinct from cooling materials down to cryogenic temperatures to take advantage of phenomena such as superconductivity that only occur at cryogenic temperatures. Cryogenic treatment, sometimes also referred to...
Air Separation and Liquefaction
by Nils Tellier, PE, President, EPSIM Corporation (CSA CSM) nils@epsim.us All illustrations courtesy EPSIM Corporation Background History of Air Separation and Liquefaction This section builds on a rich history of methods to develop deep refrigeration and cryogenic liquefaction during the 19th Century. You are encouraged to read Cryo Central’s History...
Bose-Einstein Condensate
A Bose-Einstein condensate, first proposed in 1925 by Albert Einstein based on work done by Satyendra Nath Bose (the same Bose from whom the term boson is derived), is a super-cold state of matter in which almost all of the individual atoms have “condensed” down to the lowest possible quantum...
Cold Technology for Pest Control
While it does not reach temperatures cold enough to be called cryogenic, carbon dioxide snow is at the heart of a new way of dealing with unwanted pests. It utilizes a quick freezing process that takes advantage of the properties of carbon dioxide snow and has a number of benefits...
Cryogenic Finishing
The following 3 articles discuss the uses and procedures of various type of cryogenic finishing. 1) By Robin A. Rhodes, Cryogenic Institute of New England, Inc. rrhodes@nitrofreeze.com Cryogenic Deflashing is employed to remove undesired residual mold flash that remains on molded parts after they are removed or ejected from the...
Investigating use of hydrophobic surfaces in cryogenics
I am a final year Physics Undergraduate at the University of Cambridge (UK). As a part of one of my courses this year, I have been asked to investigate the use of hydrophobic surfaces in cryogenics.
Could an Amateur Construct a Liquid Air Plant?
I am a newly retired experimental physicist. Is it feasible for an “amateur” to construct a liquid air plant? Do you have detailed descriptions of older (presumably simpler) liquid air plants, or references that might be of assistance?
Data on the thermal contraction value for Aluminum 6061-T6?
I’m looking for data on the thermal contraction value for Aluminum 6061-T6. Can you guide me in the right direction?
Cryoforming of steel for pressure vessel applications?
Could you advise on me where to find some literature regarding the cryoforming of steel for pressure vessel applications?