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GenH2’s Liquid Hydrogen Innovation Earns NASA Nomination for Prestigious Invention of the Year Award

Image: GenH2 Company’s Cryostat CS500 Recognized for Commercialization of NASA-Developed Technology with Honorable Mention TITUSVILLE, FL, UNITED STATES — GenH2 Corp., a Path2 Hydrogen Company, a leader in liquid hydrogen infrastructure solutions, announced today that NASA nominated its Cryostat CS500 simulation test platform at the Kennedy Space Center for the agency’s prestigious Commercial Invention...
Scientists in Copenhagen have built an artificial platform to mimic elusive quantum states in superconductors, bypassing decades-old detection challenges. Credit: Stock

Quantum Breakthrough: Scientists Find “Backdoor” to 60-Year-Old Superconducting Mystery

Scientists in Copenhagen have built an artificial platform to mimic elusive quantum states in superconductors, bypassing decades-old detection challenges. A Copenhagen team has unlocked a clever “backdoor” into studying rare quantum states once thought beyond reach. Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have discovered a new approach...
Biomedical News Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head It’s the first step toward an inexpensive new medical imager

Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head

The possible path of 50 photons sent through a human head from a laser [left, in red] to a detector [right, green]. Credit:  Extreme Light group/University of Glasgow    For the most part, anyone who wants to see what’s going on inside someone else’s brain has to make a trade-off when...

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Transfer Lines

Transfer lines may in some real sense be thought of as the cryogenic fluid analogy of current leads. While current leads carry electrical power to where it’s required in a cryogenic system, transfer lines do the same with cryogenic fluids. Transfer lines range in complexity from very simple U-tubes containing...

Zero Boiloff

Zero Boil Off cryostats are those that contain liquid cryogens but are designed to eliminate or vastly reduce the boil off of  the liquid. These cryostats combine some of the advantages of Cryogen-Free systems (e.g. ease of use and long operational lifetime) with the advantages associated with a reservoir of liquid...

Cryomodule

Cryomodule is a term that is most commonly used to refer to cryostats that contain superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities. Such cavities are used to accelerate charged particle beams and are a major component of modern particle accelerators. Using the term cryomodule to refer to cryostats containing SRF cavities appears...

Magnets

From “Superconductivity: Present and Future Applications” by the Coalition for the Commercial Application of Superconductors. Particle physics uses accelerators to recreate the conditions of the early universe in an attempt to piece together the complex puzzle of how we got to where we are today. These huge machines are used...

Energy Storage

From “Superconductivity: Present and Future Applications” by the Coalition for the Commercial Application of Superconductors. With power lines increasingly congested and prone to instability, strategic injection of brief bursts of real power can play a crucial role in maintaining grid reliability. Small-scale Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) systems, based on...

Astronomy

ASTRONOMY IN SPACE by Peter V. Mason, retired,  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology. Pmason@alumni.caltech.edu In thinking about the reasons to perform astronomy in space, we first consider the effect of the earth’s atmosphere.  On a scale of decreasing energy, gamma rays, cosmic rays, X-rays and...

Cryocoolers

What is a Cryocooler? A mechanism that can extract heat from an object (cooler) and by doing so draw its temperature down below approximately 150 Kelvin (cryo). — (Courtesy Dr. Willy Gully) What is the difference between a Cryocooler and a Cryostat? A cryostat is any device designed to maintain...

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...