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Happy New Year to you!
Writing from England, we appreciate each day brings more daylight and a day nearer vaccination, but we’re not averse to taking every opportunity for celebration, be it Burns Night just gone by, Chinese New Year (Feb 12) or Valentine’s Day on Feb 14. Enjoy!
Now there are changes and there are changes. This one is seismic. As of February 1, management of CSA, handled for more than 35 years by Laurie and Werner Huget, will pass to CM Services. Laurie and Werner are retiring. From the British Cryogenics Council, Cluster and Community, we want to pay tribute to the absolutely immense role they have played in raising the Global Cryogenic Community profile over all these years. We salute you, we will miss you, we don’t want you to go, but we want to wish you well and keep in touch. Thank you for everything you have done for Cryogenics and being special friends (we’ve heard about the “Special Relationship” between Washington DC & London – the Cryogenic One is from Oxford to Chicago.)
There is so much going on in the world of low temperatures it’s hard to know where to start. LNG pricing has shot up, driven by freezing temperatures in Asia and COVID complications. And in COVID territory, gasworld published an informative piece on Supplemental Oxygen as well as one providing reassurance on Availability of Oxygen, recognising hospital systems have been stretched in some places. They report too that ASCO has developed a dry ice COVID vaccine shipping solution.
BCC has given its endorsement to a Special Edition of Transformers Magazine on Superconductivity. We hear, again via gasworld, that results of the CryoHub project will be shared in a webinar on March 17.
Before that BCC Members have a complimentary invitation from OBN (formerly known as Oxfordshire Bioscience Network before it outgrew the County) to an event on February 16 – An Insight into the history of Cryogenics and its Crucial Role in Life Sciences.
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Brought to you by the B Cryo Team
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Welcome New Member
It’s nice to welcome the first member of the new decade to the British Cryogenics Council and the Cluster – that is Bauer Kompressor from Munich, with a substantial UK presence in St Helens.
Member News
BCGA has a new President – Lucia Sainz de Meier, MD @ Air Liquide UK.
Cryomech featured in PhysicsWorld as a Problem Solver. Here is Cryomech’s new facility described by CSA.
Allectra has a neat application story involving Kapton Insulated Cables.
Air Liquide, working with Doosan is supporting construction of a Liquid Hydrogen Plant at Changwon.
UKAEA is recruiting a Senior Magnet Design Engineer for the STEP project. And nice to know there isn’t a Brexit for British Cryogenic Cluster Member UKAEA.
Oxford Instruments delivers first Proteox Dilution Refrigerator to Oxford Quantum Circuits. And another’s going to Glasgow. OI featured #1 in this list of 61 players in the Low Temperature Quantum Supply Chain.
LTi recently designed and manufactured a rocket plume intercooler outer vacuum vessel for ReactionEngines.
Chart’s acquisition of Sustainable Energy Solutions takes it into Cryogenic Carbon Capture.
Here’s a blog from the STFC Food Network on one of the most worthwhile projects on the planet – to improve the Food Supply Chain in India, better for farmers, consumers, and reducing waste!
Nikkiso sells its Turboexpander business to Air Liquide.
More on market conditions driving high LNG prices mentioned above.
Here’s a report from December on the NASA "Green Run Wet Dress Rehearsal" on the Artemis mission (involving 700,000 gallons of propellant.)
Korea Superfreeze is preparing for storage of Covid vaccines to support mass vaccinations.
Rosatom’s Afrikantov OKBM provided a large scale cryogenic pump for the Yamal LNG project.
Shell and Nordkraft collaborate on a Liquid Hydrogen Production facility for use in ferries in Norway.
Progress on the awesome ITER project continues with hoisting and installation of the thermal shield in the base of the cryostat. It may weigh 50 tonnes, but with 10mm thickness it’s extremely delicate. The 665 tonne top lid of the cryostat is coming together too.
Let us know anything you have for a shout out – and share us on LinkedIn!
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More News
A new technique to cool reactive molecules low enough to achieve quantum degeneracy has been created by researchers in the US.
McDermott’s CB&I Storage business is to study opportunities to expand current liquid hydrogen storage capacity limits.
The Editor has cause to regret having sport on the Cluster LinkedIn page with Glaswegians about making MRI Systems. Apologies to all Glaswegians before they take any more offence.
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Events
Here is a Link to register for the webinar on March 17 with Results from CryoHub Project.
EUCAS Moscow will be virtual on September 5.
Keep an eye on the BCC News & Events page for more information on upcoming events.
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