John M. Ulliman has joined American Superconductor Corporation as vice president of Business Development and Government Relations. Ulliman was previously employed with Northrop Grumman Corporation.
The Sept.-Oct. issue of Police Fleet Manager commented: "Cryogenic rotors, using today's technology, are a legitimate solution for some agencies in preventing warped rotors. If you haven't looked at cryogenic rotors lately, you haven't looked at cryogenic rotors."
Flowserve Corp., a global provider of fluid motion and control products and services, received two awards at the Frost and Sullivan Growth Excellence Awards ceremony on September 26.
FIBA Technologies, Inc. received a Manufacture License of Special Equipment from The People's Republic of China, allowing it to export seamless pressure vessels, tubes, trailers and ISO containers into China.
CryoCath Technologies, a global leader in cryotherapy products that treat cardiovascular disease, has ranked 69 on Deloitte and Touche's Technology Fast 500 list, a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth from 2001 to 2005.
Most cryogenic refrigeration systems, both large scale systems and cryocoolers, use helium as a working fluid. There are a number of advantages to helium, not the least of which is that helium remains a fluid down to the lowest achievable temperatures. In order to freeze helium, pressures of over 20...
Helium II (He II), the second liquid phase of the 4He isotope described in this column in Cold Facts Spring 2010 (http://2csa.us/he2), can be modeled as consisting of two interpenetrating fluids. One, the superfluid component, has zero viscosity and entropy and the other, the normal fluid component, has nonzero viscosity...
A vital technology in the refrigerators and liquefiers described in Cold Facts Volume 31 Number 3 is that of turboexpanders. These devices are rotating machines in which the process fluid (e.g., helium) does work against the turboexpander while moving from high pressure to a lower pressure and thus is cooled....
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...
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...
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...
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...
I am trying to select a plastic to be used as a diffuser on the magnet end of a LHe fill siphon. Can you recommend anything that will hold up at LHe temps? I have seen some and they look like HDPE or Polypropylene but I am not sure.
I am looking for the thermal conductivity orthotropic properties from 300K up to 500K (or even higher, if available). “Cryocomp” provides orthotropic data on G-10 (Fill, Warp, Normal) only up to 300K.
I’m a student of physical engineering and I am looking for heat conductivity values of CuCrZr in the low temperature range of 4 to 300K. Jakub Voňka Brno University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering