Cryocoolers, innovation and the future
Supercooling is a process that often needs cryocoolers. What’s out there today – and what are the prospects for this supercooling technology? Christian Annesley spoke to three players in this specialist field to find out more
Reaching cryogenic temperatures of –150°C and lower requires removing thermal energy far beyond what conventional refrigeration can achieve. You need specialised thermodynamic processes and refrigerants to get there, and one way is through cryocoolers.
Thermodynamic cycles like Stirling and Gifford-McMahon, or pulse tube technology, are some of the tools that enable these systems to cool efficiently. And this supercooling tech today powers some of the world’s most advanced and important technologies: satellites, quantum computing, preserving superconducting states, sustaining magnetic fields in MRI machines, and more.
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