Fred Edeskuty honored by South High School as outstanding alumni
Former Cold Facts columnist on Safety, Fred Edeskuty was honored by his alma mater, South High School, for being an outstanding alumni.
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URA and the University of Chicago to bid for contract
Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA) and the University of Chicago have formed a partnership to bid for the US DOE contract to manage the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), home of the Tevatron, the word's highest energy particle accelerator and a CSA corporate sustaining member.
Dr. Sidney Yuan joins The Aerospace Corporation
CSA Board Member and co-founder of the Northern and Southern California Chapters Dr. Sidney Yuan has joined The Aerospace Corporation as Engineering Specialist, a job that he is pleased will include research assignments.
Applied Superconductivity Center to move to Tallahassee FL
The Applied Superconductivity Center (ASC) will move to Tallahassee FL and become a materials research division of Florida State University's (FSU) National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), a CSA corporate sustaining member.
ILC receives increase in budget submitted to Congress for FY07
The International Linear Collider received a 100% increase in the Administration's budget submitted to Congress for FY 2007, from $30M to $60M.
Linde becomes world’s largest provider of industrial gases
Linde has taken over BOC in a $14.4 billion deal that makes Linde the world's largest provider of industrial gases.
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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...
Food Processing
Cryogenics and Food The industrial gas industry provides a host of products and services related to food. The various gases have useful and sometimes fascinating applications in food industry. “The food industry is not a homogenous industry. The needs of customers processing hamburger vs. poultry vs. strawberries vs. seafood, for...
Primary Standards
Elie K. Track Hypres, Inc. elie@hypres.com http://www.hypres.com/ Primary standards involve the exact definition and realization of units of measurement for various quantities, time, length, mass, voltage, resistance, current, etc. International agreements based on the latest scientific knowledge define those units, and their realizations vary depending on the unit itself. For...
Shrink Fitting
Robin A. Rhodes Cryogenic Institute of New England, Inc. rrhodes@nitrofreeze.com Shrink fitting, (or “compression fitting” as it is sometimes called), is a method used to insert a pin or bushing into a housing or other assembly requiring an extremely tight tolerance fit. It can be used as an alternative to...
Telecommunications
From the Winter 2004 issue of Cold Facts magazine The recent M-Calc IV — 4th Industry Assessment workshop discussing military and commercial applications for low-cost cryocoolers, held in November in San Diego, highlighted progress being made in cryogenics as applied in telecommunications. The reliability and long lifetime of projects now...
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?