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Emerging pulsed electric field (PEF) and static magnetic field (SMF) combination technology for food freezing.

• Author(s) : MOK J. H., CHOI W., PARK S. H., et al.
• Publication date: 2015/02
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Crystallization, Freezing, Magnetic field, Electric field, Sodium chloride
• Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 50
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Electrocaloric polymers: different electric field cycles to increase their efficiency.

• Author(s) : PRUVOST S., BASSO V., GARBUIO L., et al.
• Publication date: 2016/09/11
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Electrocaloric cooling, Measurement, Efficiency, Electric property, Polymer, Electric field
• Source: 7^th International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature (Thermag VII). Proceedings: Turin, Italy, September 11-14, 2016.
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Effects of pulsed electric field (PEF) and oscillating magnetic field (OMF) on supercooling preservation of beef at different fat levels.

• Author(s) : KANG T., LEE D., KO Y., JUN S.
• Publication date: 2022/04
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Meat, Beef, Fat, Supercooling, Electric field, Magnetic field, Expérimentation
• Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 136
• Formats : PDF

A ferromagnetic model for the action of electric and magnetic fields in cryopreservation.

• Author(s) : KOBAYASHI A., KIRSCHVINK J. L.
• Publication date: 2014/04
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Training, Ice, Supercooling, Model, Cryopreservation, Freezing, Magnetic field, Electric field
• Source: Cryobiology - vol. 68 - n. 2
• Formats : PDF

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Exploration of combined electric and magnetic field emissions for supercooling preservation of perishable food materials.

• Author(s) : KANG T., JUN S.
• Publication date: 2020/08/26
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Supercooling, Freezing, Food, Fruit, Meat, Magnetic field, Electric field, Quality, Comparison
• Source: 6^th IIR International Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain. Proceedings: Nantes, France, August 26-28 2020
• Formats : PDF, Video

IIR document

Phase change under static electrical field; in the case of lipids.

• Author(s) : LE BAIL A., JHA P., XANTHAKIS E.
• Publication date: 2016/04/07
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Lipid, Meat, Supercooling, Pork, Expérimentation, Freezing, Change of phase, Electric field
• Source: 4^th IIR International Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain. Proceedings: Auckland, New Zealand, April 7-9, 2016.
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Evaluation of the static electric field effects on freezing parameters of some food systems.

• Author(s) : FALLAH-JOSHAQANI S., HAMDAMI N., KESHAVARZI E., et al.
• Publication date: 2019/03
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Food, Freezing rate, Supercooling, Expérimentation, Freezing, Electric field, Water, Sodium chloride
• Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 99
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Effects of ultrahigh permittivity ceramic on water freezing by high voltage electric field-assisted freezing system.

• Author(s) : WANG Q., WANG L., TIAN Y., ZHU Z., SUN D. W.
• Publication date: 2021/08
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Food application, Freezing, Ceramics, CFD, Simulation, Electric field, Supercooling, Water
• Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 128
• Formats : PDF

Changement d'état sous champ électrique statique (SEF) : cas de la cristallisation des lipides.

State change under static electric field (SEF): case of lipids crystallization.

• Author(s) : LE BAIL A., JHA P., XANTHAKIS E., et al.
• Publication date: 2016/09
• Languages : French
• Keywords : Lipid, Process, Crystallization, Freezing, Change of phase, Electric field
• Source: Revue générale du Froid & du Conditionnement d'air - vol. 104 - n. 1159

Changes in Physico-Chemical and Storage Properties of Dry-Aged Beef Loin Using Electric Field Refrigeration System.

• Author(s) : KANG K. M., LEE S. H., KIM H. Y.
• Publication date: 2022/06
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Beef, Ageing (meat), Electric field, Refrigeration, Microbiological quality, Organoleptic property, Expérimentation, Korea Republic
• Source: Foods - 11 - 11
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Freezing under electrical and magnetic disturbances; a review.

• Author(s) : LE BAIL A., XANTHAKIS E., HAVET M.
• Publication date: 2015/08/16
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Ice, Food, Disturbance, Pork, Survey, Freezing, Magnetic field, Electric field
• Source: Proceedings of the 24th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration: Yokohama, Japan, August 16-22, 2015.
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Physics of freezing under electromagnetic conditions: a review.

• Author(s) : LE BAIL A., JHA P. K., XANTHAKIS E., et al.
• Publication date: 2019/08/24
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Ice, Microwave, Atom, Review, Molecule, Crystal, Freezing, Magnetic field, Electric field
• Source: Proceedings of the 25^th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration: Montréal , Canada, August 24-30, 2019.
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

Magnetocalorics or electrocalorics: will either replace the gas compressor in high-efficiency refrigeration appliances?

• Author(s) : WILSON N.
• Publication date: 2014/09/07
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Electrocaloric cooling, Comparison, Magnetocaloric cooling, Magnetic property, Magnetic field, Electric field
• Source: 6^th International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature (Thermag VI). Proceedings: Victoria, Canada, September 7-10, 2014.
• Formats : PDF

IIR document

A new concept refrigeration model based on thermal switch and numerical calculation.

• Author(s) : LI H. B., JIANG Q., XU X. N., et al.
• Publication date: 2016/09/11
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Electrocaloric cooling, Simulation, Performance, Development, Electric field
• Source: 7^th International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature (Thermag VII). Proceedings: Turin, Italy, September 11-14, 2016.
• Formats : PDF

Analysis of electro-static assisted air dehumidification.

• Author(s) : MORCELLI S., CREMASCHI L.
• Publication date: 2021/05
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Dehumidification, Droplet, Expérimentation, Electric field, Prototype, Condensation
• Source: 2021 Purdue Conferences. 18^th International Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Conference at Purdue.
• Formats : PDF

A promising future for electric field refrigeration

A team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University, supported by the US Department of Energy and led by Qiming Zhang are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric polymers which could allow for compressor-free...

• Publication date : 2011/02/04

ICR2011 highlights: cooling particle detectors

Cooling systems for particle detectors attracted interest at the IIR’s Congress in Prague in August 2011. These highly specific applications have very strict requirements compared with standard cooling systems: refrigerants should be resistant to...

• Publication date : 2012/02/21

PZT: electric cooling

A new material has been developed by a team of Cambridge scientists that turns cold at the press of a button. They have found a ceramic material that has a giant electrocaloric effect; 100 times larger than that seen in the 1960s when this...

• Publication date : 2006/05/05

Briefs: Flat-panel fridge

According to researchers at Pennsylvania State University, a new approach to refrigeration and cooling could make for high-efficiency, portable, and quiet refrigerators in the future. The method works by repeatedly applying an electric field to...

• Publication date : 2008/10/25

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

Supercooling the LHC

CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the new research instrument of the world's elementary particle physics community. This discovery-making machine will explore the structure of matter and basic forces of nature on a scale never attained before....

• Publication date : 2007/02/12

Reclaiming waste heat from ice rinks’ refrigeration systems to save energy

Several studies and recent cases studies show that heat recovery from the refrigeration system is the biggest energy-saving measure in ice rinks.

• Publication date : 2023/10/23
• Subjects: Technology

LHC accelerating science

The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was steered around the full 27 km of the world's most powerful particle accelerator on September 10, 2008, in Geneva. Beams of protons circulating in opposite directions are to be brought into...

• Publication date : 2008/10/25

ICR2019: focus on innovative refrigeration technologies for developing countries

Several papers presented during the IIR International Congress of Refrigeration in August 2019 addressed advances in the refrigeration technologies that are particularly adapted to hot countries with limited electricity supply: solar...

• Publication date : 2019/11/29
• Subjects: Developing country

100 years of superconductivity

April 8, 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity by Heike Kammerlingh Onnes. Working in his lab at Leiden University on April 8, 1911, he was experimenting with the electrical...

• Publication date : 2011/07/26

Latest progress in the Caribbean Cooling Initiative

Jamaica and the Dominican Republic are working towards setting up policies and minimum energy efficiency requirements to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions from cooling. 

• Publication date : 2021/05/31
• Subjects: Regulation, Developing country, Environment

Nanotechnoly: what’s new?

Nanotechnology - the manipulation of cell and atomic structure in materials no larger than a billionth of a metre in size - has recently been described by Frank O'Brien-Bernini, Vice President of Owens Corning Science & Technology Center, as...

• Publication date : 2006/07/26

Recent overview of research on electrocaloric cooling

A recent literature review presents an overview of research on electrocaloric cooling. The authors addressed the following topics: thermodynamic cycles, electrocaloric materials, experimental devices, numerical...

• Publication date : 2021/01/04
• Subjects: Technology

Caloric cooling: state of the art and perspectives

A recent IJR article reviews the most significant results obtained over the past ten years in the field of magnetocaloric cooling and more recently in the field of electrocaloric, elastocaloric and barocaloric cooling. It also presents the...

• Publication date : 2019/11/29

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

Call for abstracts now open: 10th IIR Conference on Caloric Cooling and Applications of Caloric Materials (Thermag 2022)

To be hosted by the University of Ljubljana – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering this August, the call for abstracts has been launched for the 10th edition of the IIR Thermag conference...

• Publication date : 2022/01/21
• Subjects: Technology

Ever-expanding market research resources at your fingertips

The IIR enhances its market research resources

• Publication date : 2015/05/27

IIR conference on caloric cooling Thermag VIII: highlights

Thermag VIII was an opportunity to present new developments regarding magnetocaloric, electrocaloric and elastocaloric cooling.

• Publication date : 2018/10/18

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

EU project ENOUGH offers PhD scholarship at CNR-ITC in Padova (Italy)

A PhD scholarship will be offered as part of the Horizon 2020 project ENOUGH. The European project will aim to provide technologies, tools and methods to contribute to the EU Farm to Fork strategy to achieve...

• Publication date : 2022/02/15
• Subjects: Technology, Environment

The IIR releases a new Informatory Note for World Refrigeration Day

To celebrate the world’s first Refrigeration Day, the IIR has released a new IIR Informatory Note on “The Role of Refrigeration in the Global Economy”.

• Publication date : 2019/06/26

Review of F-gas regulation - IIR contribution

The IIR has responded to the European Commission consultation “Fluorinated greenhouse gases – review of EU rules (2015-20)” which aims to collect opinions and suggestions about the update of the F-gas Regulation...

• Publication date : 2020/09/06
• Subjects: Regulation, HFCs alternatives, Environment

New IIR Working Group on Solid-State Cooling and Heating

Initiated by Andrej Kitanovski (Slovenia), this working group's first objective is to promote international research collaboration in the areas of solid-state cooling, heat pumps, and energy...

• Publication date : 2022/07/08

ICR2023: ENOUGH, INDEE+ and SophiA conference papers are now online!

Download papers presented at ICR2023.

• Publication date : 2023/10/24

New IIR Informatory Note on The Role of Refrigeration in the Global Economy

In its latest Informatory Note, the IIR highlights the major and growing role of the refrigeration industry in the global economy, particularly in the areas of food, health, energy and the environment. It calls on policy makers to consider this...

• Publication date : 2019/08/29
• Subjects: Figures, economy

New IIR Informatory Note on Renewable Energy

The latest IIR Informatory Note stresses that renewable energy sources can be considered practically inexhaustible and are currently the only solution for an ecological transition to clean...

• Publication date : 2023/04/26
• Subjects: Environment

IIR member news: Air Liquide joins the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic

To deal with the Covid-19 epidemic in France, the Air Liquide group, member of the IIR, has decided to produce 10,000 respirators in 50 days.

• Publication date : 2020/04/05

The essential role of refrigeration in the combat against COVID-19

Statement of the International Institute of Refrigeration calling governments to consider refrigeration-related services as “essential services” in the context of the current health crisis due to COVID-19.

• Publication date : 2020/04/14
• Subjects: Figures, economy, Developing country, General information, Regulation, Technology, Environment

Press release: The IIR Launches Quiz on The Impact of Refrigeration on the Climate Change

In conjunction with the newly released 35th IIR Informatory Note on The Impact of the Refrigeration Sector on Climate Change, the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) has launched a quiz on “Refrigeration and the environment”, which...

• Publication date : 2017/12/14

Press release: The IIR releases Informatory Note on The Role of Refrigeration in the Global Economy

The 29th International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) Informatory Note presents the application and requirements of refrigeration across the globe and the key role it plays in all areas of the economy and in all the major challenges of today's...

• Publication date : 2015/12/07

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)

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

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