Following the EU’s crackdown on fluorinated greenhouse gas (F-gas) use, CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, has moved towards carbon dioxide (CO2) refrigeration technology for its ATLAS and CMS tracking detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The adoption of CO2 as a refrigerant during high-powered collision experiments also provides significant advantages over existing refrigerant gases such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
And in an exclusive interview, Paolo Petagna, Project Leader at CERN, spoke to gasworld about the transition.
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