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Progress in low temperature physics. Vol. VIII.

• Author(s) : BREWER D. F.
• Publication date: 1982
• Languages :

Quantum turbulence. 1.

• Author(s) : DONNELLY R. J.
• Publication date: 2013/12
• Languages : English
• Source: Cold Facts - vol. 29 - n. 5

Quantum turbulence. 2.

• Author(s) : DONNELLY R. J.
• Publication date: 2014/02
• Languages : English
• Source: Cold Facts - vol. 30 - n. 1

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A prototype with Xenon to simulate the future advance refrigeration unit for cooling of silicon detector trackers.

• Author(s) : CONTIERO L., BANASIAK K., HAFNER A., VERLAAT B., PETAGNA P., ALLOUCHE Y.
• Publication date: 2023/08/21
• Languages : English
• Source: Proceedings of the 26^th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration: Paris , France, August 21-25, 2023.
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Numerical simulation on nitrogen condensation in high aspect ratio mini-channels.

• Author(s) : SUN D., QIN S., SHEN Q., SU S., LEI S.
• Publication date: 2020/09
• Languages : English
• Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 117
• Formats : PDF

Measurement of thermal diffusivity/thermal contact resistance using laser photothermal method at cryogenic temperatures.

• Author(s) : BI D., CHEN H., LIU S., et al.
• Publication date: 2017/01/25
• Languages : English
• Source: Applied Thermal Engineering - vol. 111

IIR document

Challenges of the usage of ultra-low temperatures for fish freezing and storage.

• Author(s) : EIKEVIK T., TOLSTOREBROV I., BANTLE M., et al.
• Publication date: 2015/08/16
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Low temperature, Quality, Physical property, Storage, Fish, Freezing
• Source: Proceedings of the 24th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration: Yokohama, Japan, August 16-22, 2015.
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Effect of low and ultra-low temperature applications during freezing and frozen storage on quality parameters for fish.

• Author(s) : TOLSTOREBROV I., EIKEVIK T. M., BANTLE M.
• Publication date: 2016/03
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Low temperature, Quality, Physical property, Storage, Fish, Freezing
• Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 63
• Formats : PDF

Techniques de réfrigération cryogénique pour les laboratoires de physique de la matière.

Cryocooling for physics of matter laboratories.

• Author(s) : GANDIT P.
• Publication date: 2014/09
• Languages : French
• Keywords : Technology, Helium 4, Helium 3, Helium, Cryostat, Low temperature, Liquid helium, Adiabatic demagnetization, Review, Demagnetization, Cryogenics
• Source: Revue générale du Froid & du Conditionnement d'air - vol. 103 - n. 1146

Cryogénie pour la turbulence. 1.

Cryogenics for turbulence. 1.

• Author(s) : GIRARD A.
• Publication date: 2014/09
• Languages : French
• Source: Revue générale du Froid & du Conditionnement d'air - vol. 103 - n. 1146

Cryogénie pour la turbulence. 2.

Cryogenics for turbulence. 2.

• Author(s) : GIRARD A.
• Publication date: 2014/10
• Languages : French
• Source: Revue générale du Froid & du Conditionnement d'air - vol. 103 - n. 1147/1148

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Krypton, applied as refrigerant for cooling of silicon detector trackers.

• Author(s) : CONTIERO L., BARROCA P., HAFNER A., VERLAAT B., PETAGNA P., BANASIAK K.
• Publication date: 2022/06/13
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Krypton, Thermodynamic property, Natural refrigerant, Low temperature, Hybrid system, Thermodynamic cycle, CO2, R744, Particle detector
• Source: 15^th IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants (GL2022). Proceedings. Trondheim, Norway, June 13-15^th 2022.
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

An advance Krypton – CO₂ cascade refrigeration unit for the Phase III Upgrade of the VELO detector at CERN.

• Author(s) : CONTIERO L., HAFNER A., VERLAAT B., BANASIAK K., ALLOUCHE Y.
• Publication date: 2023/04/27
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Krypton, Modelling, Transcritical cycle, Low temperature, Cascade system, Case study
• Source: 10^th IIR Conference on Ammonia and CO₂ Refrigeration Technologies.
• Formats : PDF

Advances in cryochemistry: mechanisms, reactions and applications.

• Author(s) : AN L.-Y., DAI Z., DI B., XU L.-L.
• Publication date: 2022/02
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Chemistry, Freezing, Review, Chemical reaction, Low temperature, Cryogenics, Cryotemperature, Environment, Antibiotic, Pollutant, Cold chain, Drug, Ph
• Source: Molecules - 26 - 3
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Temperature inversion and heat transport against the temperature drop in two-phase convection of cryogenic helium.

• Author(s) : URBAN P., SCHMORANZER D., HANZELKA P., et al.
• Publication date: 2014/04/07
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Helium, Heat, Temperature variation, Transport, Expérimentation, Cryogenics, Convection
• Source: Cryogenics 2014. Proceedings of the 13^th IIR International Conference: Prague, Czech Republic, April 7-11, 2014.
• Formats : PDF

Recent developments in extreme cooling

Researchers from NIST have demonstrated a solid-state refrigerator using quantum physics in micro- and nanostructures to cool a much larger object to extremely low temperatures. Moreover, a team of Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University, has...

• Publication date : 2013/05/17

German researchers approach absolute zero

Physicists at the University of Bremen, Germany have produced the lowest temperature ever recorded, at 38 picoKelvin, which is 38 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.

• Publication date : 2021/11/15
• Subjects: Technology

A possible major step in the quest of room-temperature superconductivity

Two researcher teams have just reported experiments indicating that a hydride of lanthanum compressed to 1.7 to 1.85 million bar has a critical temperature of 250–260 K (-23 – -13°C).

• Publication date : 2019/01/31

A nanoelectronic chip cooled to the world record temperature of 2.8 mK

A group of researchers of the University of Basel succeeded in cooling a nanoelectronic chip to a temperature very close to absolute zero thanks to magnetic cooling.

• Publication date : 2018/03/22

Always closer to absolute zero

NIST physicists have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature below the so-called “quantum limit.”

• Publication date : 2017/06/29

Cryochemistry: chemical reactions accelerated by freezing

Surprisingly, some chemical reactions can be accelerated by freezing. The possible applications of studying such cryoreactions include the food and pharmaceutical cold chain, as well...

• Publication date : 2022/02/28
• Subjects: Technology, Environment

Ultracold polar molecules

Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder), have applied their expertise in ultracold atoms and lasers to produce the first high-density...

• Publication date : 2008/10/22

A cryostat provides the optical bench of the largest digital astronomic camera

The manufacture of a cryostat to be used as an optical bench for the camera of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope has been completed.

• Publication date : 2018/09/20

Cryo-electron microscopy wins the 2017 chemistry Nobel Prize

On October 2017, Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Joachim Frank (USA) and Richard Henderson (UK) were awarded the chemistry Nobel Prize for cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM).

• Publication date : 2017/12/18

Visualization of artificial proteins with cryo-electron microscopy

A team of researchers managed to visualize the atomic structure of peptoids.

• Publication date : 2019/12/30

Reducing the environmental impact of ultra-low temperature refrigeration systems

Ultra-low temperature (ULT) refrigeration systems often use very high-GWP HFCs. Yet, ULT systems are excluded from the scope of the regulations aimed at phasing-down HFCs. An IJR paper reviews the most promising...

• Publication date : 2020/04/05
• Subjects: HFCs alternatives, Environment

New cryogenic methods to control indoor air pollution

The journal Science of the Total Environment will publish in February 2019 an article exploring the capacity of cryogenic technologies to tackle indoor air pollution.

• Publication date : 2018/12/27

New cryogenic refrigerator to deep-freeze chips

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a compact, solid-state refrigerator capable of reaching very low temperatures (as low as 100 milliKelvin). The refrigerator works using a "sandwich" of normal-...

• Publication date : 2004/05/25

Optical refrigeration

A team in New Mexico University has created the first-ever optical cryocooler that could be applied to airborne and spaceborne sensors. It uses optical refrigeration which could enable miniaturization, an alternative to bulky mechanical...

• Publication date : 2010/05/27

IIR corporate members news: CERN is 50

On October 19, 2004, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), a corporate member of the IIR, officially celebrated its 50th anniversary in a ceremony attended by many government representatives to pay tribute to the discoveries made by...

• Publication date : 2005/02/11

Cryogenics and Low-Temperature Physics: New Horizons and Challenges

This Focus written by Ralf Herzog*, President of the IIR’s Cryophysics, Cryoengineering commission (Commission A1) for the Newsletter of the IIR is the third in a series of presentations of the activities and hot research topics handled by the...

• Publication date : 2012/09/21

2008, Refrigeration Year

Many events and actions have already been scheduled or have already taken place in various countries in order to celebrate the IIR's centenary and the 100th anniversaries of several national associations of refrigeration (France, the Netherlands,...

• Publication date : 2008/05/13

Activities of the IIR's Commission C1 on Cryobiology and Cryomedicine

Members of the Cryobiology and Cryomedicine Commission (C1) are working hard to reach their 2013-2015 objectives in cryobiology and cryomedicine research; knowledge dissemination; technology transfer and education.

• Publication date : 2013/11/25

Call for abstracts now open: Cryogenics Conference 2021

The Programme Committee of the 16th IIR Conference on Cryogenics kindly invites authors to submit their abstracts by February 10, 2021!

• Publication date : 2020/12/14
• Subjects: Technology

Cryogenics 2023 : Call for abstracts extended to October 30!

There's still time to submit an abstract to the IIR Cryogenics 2023 conference to be held in Dresden (Germany) on April 24 to 28, 2023.

• Publication date : 2022/10/11
• Subjects: Technology

Download the latest technical papers from the IIR Cryogenics Conference

Held on 8-11 April this year, the 15th IIR Cryogenics Conference welcomed over 120 guests from more than 22 countries.

• Publication date : 2019/07/02

The long awaited ICR2015 is underway!

Held every four years, this year ICR2015 welcomes 1,011 conference delegates from 55 countries, making it a truly global refrigeration event.

• Publication date : 2015/08/19

New IIR Working Groups focus on core matters in refrigeration

IIR Working Groups (WGs) operate on a temporary basis and bring together specialists to work on projects concerning current technological, social or economic issues linked to refrigeration. Their aim is to promote development, provide knowledge...

• Publication date : 2018/10/02

Member news: Latest news from Air Liquide

Air Liquid inaugurates a low-carbon hydrogen production unit and promotes the development of helium refrigeration. 

• Publication date : 2021/02/23

4th IIR Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Process of Refrigerants: a very successful event

The 4th IIR Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Process of Refrigerants (TPTPR) was held at TU Delft, the Netherlands, on June 16-19, 2013. 4 keynote lectures and 66 papers were presented during this highy successful...

• Publication date : 2013/08/12

IC2015 Workshops: An opportunity to join, share and build together

ICR2015: A chance to actively participate in the innovation of refrigeration.

• Publication date : 2015/06/17

Past events: September and October 2021

Focus on the latest events involving the IIR. 

• Publication date : 2021/10/25

World Refrigeration Day 2020

The annual World Refrigeration Day aims to raise awareness among the wider public about the importance of refrigeration technologies in everyday life. Organised under...

• Publication date : 2020/06/25
• Subjects: Figures, economy, Developing country

Spotlight on Commission B2: at the forefront of refrigerating equipment

Coordinated by the IIR Science and Technology Council, Commission B2 focuses on promoting knowledge of refrigerating equipment technologies and their applications worldwide.

• Publication date : 2015/05/15

Cryogenic nitrogen in the food and beverage industry

The adoption of cryogenic processes in the food and beverage industry is predominantly driven by liquid nitrogen (LIN), and it is the preferred candidate for food chilling and...

• Last update : 2023/11/07
• Langues : French, English
• Themes : Freezing of foodstuffs

Additive manufacturing of regenerators for caloric cooling

In many areas of engineering, additive manufacturing allows the production of complex and multifunctional products that could not be manufactured using traditional methods. In the...

• Last update : 2022/09/16
• Langues : French, English
• Themes : Caloric cooling (magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, elastocaloric and barocaloric cooling)

Cryogenics in the pharmaceutical industry: drug design and bioavailability improvement

Research activities in the pharmaceutical sector focus primarily on developing novel drug formulations which can elicit the desired response upon being administered to the patient...

• Last update : 2023/03/10
• Langues : French, English
• Themes : Freeze-drying in biology and medicine, Cryobiology, cryomedicine: general information

Ice cream manufacturing, environmental impact and market data

From a physico-chemical point of view, ice cream is a complex, frozen multiphase mixture. The manufacturing process includes several stages of freezing which are described in this...

• Last update : 2023/06/30
• Langues : French, English
• Themes : Ice creams

Nanorefrigerants

Nanorefrigerants are created by adding nanoparticles in suspension to a base refrigerant. They have a thermal conductivity that is 15% to 104% higher than that of the corresponding...

• Last update : 2022/06/17
• Langues : English, French
• Themes : Nanofluids

Hydrocarbon refrigerants

Hydrocarbons such as R290 (propane), R600a (isobutane) or R1270 (propene/propylene) are low GWP non-toxic natural refrigerants with excellent thermodynamic properties. They offer an...

• Last update : 2022/06/22
• Langues : French, English
• Themes : Hydrocarbons, Containment, refrigerant charge reduction

Additive manufacturing of heat exchangers

In the refrigeration industry, additive manufacturing (colloquially referred to as “3D printing”) makes it possible to fabricate novel, complex and potentially more energy efficient...

• Last update : 2022/09/07
• Langues : French, English
• Themes : Evaporators, condensers and other heat exchangers

Liquefied Natural Gas: production process and cold energy recovery

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been cooled to about -160 °C and turned into a liquid to facilitate transportation and storage. A typical LNG supply chain...

• Last update : 2023/06/23
• Langues : French, English
• Themes : LNG and LPG

Thermophysical properties of HFO refrigerants

Thermophysical properties of over 50 HFO refrigerants, including single-component and blends.

• Last update : 2022/06/17
• Langues : English
• Themes : HFO et HCFO, Blends

Thermophysical properties of HFC refrigerants

Thermophysical properties of over 100 HFC refrigerants, including single-component and blends.

• Last update : 2022/06/17
• Langues : English
• Themes : HFCs, HFO et HCFO, Blends

Thermophysical properties of hydrocarbon refrigerants

Thermophysical properties of over 20 hydrocarbon refrigerants, including single-component and blends.

• Last update : 2022/06/17
• Langues : English
• Themes : Hydrocarbons, Blends