Linde created a mobile hydrogen refueling unit with which it is possible to refuel both with liquid hydrogen and gaseous hydrogen completely autonomous.
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John Miller, former director of Magnet Science and Technology (MS&T) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), has accepted the position of magnet system team leader at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, starting at the end of June. Both labs are CSA Corporate Sustaining Members. Mark Bird has now …
Two college students were found dead on June 4 inside a large, deflated helium balloon. Officials said the students had apparently pulled the balloon down and crawled inside it. Inhaling helium can lead to brain damage and death from lack of oxygen, according to the Compressed Gas Association.
Justin Schwartz, a professor of engineering at Florida State University, has recently been named Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity publications. Schwartz is a recipient of the CSA Roger W. Boom Award.
In February 2002, the Cryogenics Division of Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI), one of the most respected cryogenic companies in the world, acquired APD Cryogenics.
Former Cold Facts columnist on Safety, Fred Edeskuty was honored by his alma mater, South High School, for being an outstanding alumni.
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.
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.
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.
The International Linear Collider received a 100% increase in the Administration’s budget submitted to Congress for FY 2007, from $30M to $60M.
Linde has taken over BOC in a $14.4 billion deal that makes Linde the world’s largest provider of industrial gases.
CSA corporate sustaining member Meyer Tool & Mfg. has manufactured a cryostat for the QUIET (Q/U Imaging ExperimenT) experiment, a joint effort of a consortium from eleven universities and labs.
CAD Cut, a CSA corporate sustaining member, announced its certification to the ISO9001-2000 and AS9100 Quality Standards.
Researchers at Japan’s KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization have successfully produced a 52.3MV/m gradient field with a niobium superconducting accelerator cavity, reportedly reaching the theoretical accelerating gradient limit for current state of the art cavity shapes.
Frank Meyer, founder of Meyer Tool & Mfg., longtime CSA supporter and valued member of the cryogenic community, passed away on February 6.
CSA has signed on as part of a national partnership program, to help engage the American audience in a story that touches their lives in innumerable ways, a two-part PBS television special based on the Tom Shachtman book, “Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold.”
The first 600m of the cryogenic distribution line to supply superfluid helium to the superconducting magnets at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have passed initial testing at room and cryogenic temperatures.
BOC Gases commemorated the 40th anniversary of its Otis KS helium plant, one of the world’s largest, which refines and produces more helium in one month than it did in its first year of operation.
CSA corporate sustaining member The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University marked a major scientific leap forward with the commissioning of the world-record 900 MHz magnet in July.
Member companies ACD and Cryoquip of Cryogenic Industries, a CSA corporate sustaining member, contributed their expertise to building the world’s largest single-unit air separation plant.
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