Cold Facts Digital – The go-to place for Cryogenics and Superconductivity

NASA awards LN2 and LOX contracts

Linde LLC, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and Air Liquide Industrial have all been awarded contracts to supply liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen to six NASA facilities.

NIU’s proton center to miss deadline for completion

The $159 million cancer treatment center planned at Northern Illinois University will almost certainly miss the March 2010 completion date, a date that was required by the state when the project was approved.

Full Interviews from Industrial Gas Manufacturers

The Spring 2009 issue of Cold Facts featured interviews from leaders in the industrial gases industry. Here are the interviews in their entirety, including information about each company's background and additional comments provided during the interview.

Airgas Gaspro celebrates centenary

From gasworld, June 2009: Airgas Gaspro, a business unit of Airgas, Inc., is celebrating 100 years in the Hawaiian community.

Technex delivers cryogenic tank semi-trailer to Iceblick

Technex Limited, a manufacturer of cryogenic tank semi-trailers for transporting liquid gases and liquid natural gas (LNG), has successfully completed the delivery of a cryogenic tank semi-trailer to Iceblick, a manufacturer and supplier of rare and industrial gases.

Air Liquide acquires Pacific Science

In a move to further develop business in healthcare markets, Air Liquide has acquired Pacific Science, a company that provides cryobiology equipment and services to biobanks.

Latest in Defining Cryogenics

Regenerators

Regenerators or regenerative heat exchangers are a key component of cryocoolers such as pulse tube cryocoolers (Cold Facts, August 2014). Regenerator performance greatly affects the coefficient of performance of cryocoolers. Improvements in regenerator design and, in particular, regenerator materials have been an important factor in the improvement of the performance...

Pulse Tube Cryocoolers

The development of pulse tube cryocoolers has been a significant topic of research and development over the past 20 or so years. Pulse tube cryocoolers have a number of advantages over other types of cryocoolers and are now available commercially. In order to understand pulse tube cryocoolers, it’s best to...

Thermal Expansion

Thermal expansion refers to the change in size (length or volume) that a material undergoes as its temperature changes. In cryogenic systems this effect can be quite large and must be allowed for in the design. In isotropic materials, which include most engineering materials, the thermal expansion is the same...

Latest in Cryo Central

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...

Latest in Ask the Experts