• cryogenic temperatures (below 120 K, -153 °C, -243.4 °F) is often called a cryocooler. The term is most often used for smaller systems, typically table-top...
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    thermoacoustics. In contrast with other cryocoolers (e.g. Stirling cryocooler and GM-refrigerators), this cryocooler can be made without moving parts in the...
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    mechanical cryocooler (which uses high-pressure helium lines). Gifford-McMahon cryocoolers, pulse tube cryocoolers and Stirling cryocoolers are in wide...
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    the JWST cryocooler resides in the spacecraft bus and it has lines of coolant that run to the MIRI instrument, chilling it. The cryocooler has a heat...
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    design. Two-stage Stirling cryocoolers can reach temperatures of 20 K, sufficient to liquify hydrogen and neon. Cryocoolers for this purpose are more or...
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    mechanical cryocoolers are employed which have sufficient cooling power to maintain magnets below their critical temperature. The Gifford–McMahon cryocooler has...
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  • technology came to be known as the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler. In the 1970s, the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler was used to make a vacuum pump by Helix Technology...
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  • engineer for Northrop Grumman. His notable work revolved around developing cryocoolers and the traveling-wave thermoacoustic electric generator, a technology...
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    SWIR cryocooler of the ASTER instrument caused the temperature to gradually increase. By 2008, despite frequent attempts to recycle the cryocooler the...
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    completing the cycle. Modern dilution refrigerators can precool the 3He with a cryocooler in place of liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, and a 1 K bath. No external...
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    only achieved commercial success with the "reversed Stirling engine" cryocooler. They filed a large number of patents and amassed a wealth of information...
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    developed the payload cryocooler: while other missions use liquid helium to keep instruments cold, ASTHROS will instead use a cryocooler powered by solar panels...
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    of the MRI suite. Modern MRI cryostats use a mechanical refrigerator (cryocooler) to re-condense the helium gas and return it to the bath, to maintain...
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    regenerative cooling to become the first to statically liquefy hydrogen. Cryocooler Displacer Fluid mechanics Regenerative cooling (rocket) Regenerative heat...
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    years, but was then replaced during the STS-109 servicing mission with a cryocooler that worked continuously. The Webb Space Telescope is designed to cool...
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    Canadian-born American electrical engineer, inventor of the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler, and the Science Director, Vice President, Head of the Research and Development...
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    cooling system for the IR optics is a modern SADA-II electrically powered cryocooler, removing the need to carry a supply of high-pressure coolant gas cartridges...
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    reach temperatures close to it through the use of evaporative cooling, cryocoolers, dilution refrigerators, and nuclear adiabatic demagnetization. The use...
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    handle cryogens.[citation needed] CanariCam used a two-stage closed cycle cryocooler system to cool the cold optics and cryostat interior to approximately...
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    micrometre range. Coating around hematocrit tubes. Insulating material for a cryocooler radiation shield. As a window material to confine gas in detectors and...
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    −18 °C (−10 to 0 °F) Freezer, Ice Cream −29 to −23 °C (−20 to −10 °F) Cryocooler: below -153°C (-243.4°F) Dilution refrigerator: down to -273.148°C (-459...
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  • major sponsor and strategic partner of FIRST, also founded by Dean Kamen. Cryocooler Prevost, Lisa (March 14, 2017). "A Millyard Transitions From Textiles...
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    specific heat capacity at liquid-helium temperatures and is used in cryocoolers; a mixture of 65% Er3Co and 35% Er0.9Yb0.1Ni by volume improves the specific...
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  • steam engine, such as Uniflow steam engine Counterflow heat exchanger in Cryocooler or Recuperator Counterflow in quantum turbulence Counterflow Recordings...
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    liquid helium has been used as a cryogenic refrigerant (which is used in cryocoolers), and liquid helium is produced commercially for use in superconducting...
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    specific heat capacity at liquid-helium temperatures, so is useful in cryocoolers. Neodymium acetate can be used as a standard contrasting agent in electron...
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    Canadian-born American electrical engineer, inventor of the Gifford-McMahon cryocooler, and the Science Director, Vice President, Head of the Research and Development...
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    Analysis of a Mixed-Refrigerant Auto-Cascade J-T Cryocooler with Distributed Heat Loads". Cryocoolers 11. pp. 523–530. doi:10.1007/0-306-47112-4_66....
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    though the only commercial success was the "reversed Stirling engine" cryocooler. However, they filed a large number of patents and amassed a wealth of...
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    have a niche use in cryogenics. In addition, there are other types of cryocoolers such as Gifford-McMahon coolers, Joule-Thomson coolers, pulse-tube refrigerators...
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