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Method for radon measurement in residential sewer connections.

• Author(s) : YUILL D.
• Publication date: 2018/07/09
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Residential sector, Hot water, Gas, Safety, Measurement, Radon, Health, Condensation, Concentration
• Source: 2018 Purdue Conferences. 5^th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue.
• Formats : PDF

Thermal Comfort—Case Study in a Lightweight Passive House.

• Author(s) : WĄS K., RADOŃ J., SADŁOWSKA-SAŁĘGA A.
• Publication date: 2022/07
• Languages : English
• Source: Energies - vol. 15 - n. 13
• Formats : PDF

Indoor pollution control: an overview.

• Author(s) : DESHPANDE R.
• Publication date: 2014/01
• Languages : English
• Source: Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Journal - vol. 17 - n. 1
• Formats : PDF

Residential demand controlled ventilation.

• Author(s) : KENDRE M.
• Publication date: 2016/01
• Languages : English
• Source: Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Journal - vol. 19 - n. 1
• Formats : PDF

Development of a demand control strategy in building using radon and carbon dioxide levels.

• Author(s) : CHAN G. Y., CHAO C. Y., LEE D. C., et al.
• Publication date: 1999/08/09
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Ventilation, Control (automatic), Radon, Auditorium, Air change, Parameter, Air conditioning, CO2

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Mixtures on basis of rare gases: application and methods of production.

• Author(s) : BONDARENKO V. L., DIACHENKO O. V., SIMONENKO Y. M.
• Publication date: 2012/09/11
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Helium, Gas, Liquid, Krypton, Xenon, Radon, Argon, Storage, Production, Mixture, Neon
• Source: Cryogenics 2012. Proceedings of the 12^th IIR International Conference: Dresden, Germany, September 11-14, 2012.
• Formats : PDF

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CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation of concentrations of gaseous impurities in a typical Hong Kong office.

• Author(s) : LIN Z., CHOW T. T., FONG K. F., et al.
• Publication date: 1999/09/19
• Languages : English
• Keywords : Recirculation, Office, Hong Kong, CFD, Radon, Air quality, Air displacement, Simulation, Humidity, Air conditioning, CO2
• Source: 20^th International Congress of Refrigeration: Refrigeration into the Third Millennium.
• Formats : PDF

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Indoor air quality. Chemical pollutants.

• Author(s) : SENITKOVA I.
• Publication date: 2000/10/24
• Languages : English
• Source: International Symposium on Air Conditioning in High-Rise Buildings - 2000.
• Formats : PDF

An overview of particulate matter in indoor environments: sources and effects.

• Author(s) : TAN Z. C., ZHANG Y. H.
• Publication date: 2003
• Languages : English
• Source: ASHRAE Transactions. 2003 annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Volume 109, part 2 + CD-ROM.

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Energy efficiency and indoor climate modelling of ventilation systems using ContamW (II).

• Author(s) : JUSTO ALONSO M., MALVIK B., MATHISEN H. M., et al.
• Publication date: 2011/08/21
• Languages : English
• Source: Proceedings of the 23^rd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration: Prague, Czech Republic, August 21-26, 2011. Overarching theme: Refrigeration for Sustainable Development.
• Formats : PDF

Briefs: Antarctic ice cores travel to Colorado

Ice cores estimated at several million US dollars were successfully transported across the equator to a lab in south-west United States in 12-m refrigerated containers, conceptualized by the US Antarctic Program support staff and designed and...

• Publication date : 2011/02/11

Superconducting cable for urban electricity

Part of AmpaCity project, the 1km, 10 kV high temperature ceramic-based superconductive cable is the world’s longest and the first to have been integrated into an urban electricity grid in Essen, Germany.

• Publication date : 2015/10/21

The superconductor industry global market

The global market for superconductor technologies accounted for USD 1.8 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach USD 5.8 billion by 2022.

• Publication date : 2015/09/28
• Subjects: Figures, economy

R32 takes center stage at MostraConvegno

Already available or soon-to-be-introduced on the European market, R32 units were featured by a number of exhibiting companies including Chinese manufacturers Haier, Midea, Hisense and Japanese manufacturers such as Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba,...

• Publication date : 2016/06/06

Passive cooling by combining evaporation, radiation and insulation

ICER, a new passive cooling technique, can extend food shelf life by 40% in humid climates and 200% in dry climates with low water-refilling frequences. 

• Publication date : 2022/10/27

A laser beam which cools liquids

The first laser refrigeration process was demonstrated in vacuum conditions in 1995. Twenty years later, a team from University of Washington explains in a study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, how a laser can...

• Publication date : 2016/05/17

African AC market begins to shine.

Air conditioner exports from China to Africa increased by 19% in the first half of 2016.

• Publication date : 2017/03/02
• Subjects: Figures, economy

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

Cryogenics 2019: NICA project aims at studying the state of matter existing shortly after the Big Bang

NICA project for a new superconducting accelerator complex in Russia attracted a lot of interest during IIR Cryogenics conference in Prague, in April 2019.

• Publication date : 2019/06/28

Quebec arenas refrigeration system upgrade project.

The Ministère de l'Education, du Loisir et du Sport from Québec involves in upgrading arenas refrigeration systems.

• Publication date : 2017/03/23

Passive radiative cooling: promising results for a polymer film

A new material using radiative cooling was tested by a team of researcher at Boulder, Colorado. The results show that is could become a viable solution for supplemental cooling for buildings.

• Publication date : 2018/11/06
• Subjects: Environment

Cryogenics 2021 highlights: applications of liquid nitrogen

Cryopreservation of biological materials to favour biodiversity and cooling of superconducting cables to allow transmission of electrical energy with zero resistance are key applications of liquid...

• Publication date : 2022/01/28

Recent advances in hydrogen liquefaction and storage

Several review articles present a comprehensive overview of the liquid hydrogen supply chain. IIR members Linde and Air Liquide are contributing to address the global demand for...

• Publication date : 2023/06/28
• Subjects: Technology

Refrigeration, a key player in the fight against cancer

Refrigeration technologies are an essential part of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of several cancers.

• Publication date : 2024/02/02
• Subjects: General information

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

Yverdon

The co-sponsored conference Second Phase Change Material and Slurry and the 6th IIR Workshop on Ice Slurries took place jointly on June 15-17, 2005. Eighty persons from 20 countries attended the conference, and 27 papers were presented. It was...

• Publication date : 2005/07/19

International events: Yverdon-les-Bains

The Swiss Association of Refrigeration (ASF), French-speaking section, held its annual general meeting as a special event dedicated to the IIR's centenary in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, on November 5, 2008. Papers presented during the...

• Publication date : 2009/02/24

Obituary: Guy Gistau

Guy Gistau, a leading figure in cryogenics, has passed away. The IIR sends its most sincere condolences and deepest sympathy to his family and friends.

• Publication date : 2024/09/10

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

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

Philippe Lebrun received the Mendelssohn Award.

Philippe Lebrun, President of the IIR’s General Conference, received the prestigious Mendelssohn Award conferred by the International Cryogenic Engineering Committee on March 11, 2016.

• Publication date : 2016/03/16

IIR Cryogenics Conference 2025: Call for abstracts to open in May!

Get ready to put pen to paper! The Programme Committee of the 18th IIR Conference on Cryogenics invites authors to submit their abstracts from May 25, 2024 – September 20, 2024.

• Publication date : 2024/03/21
• Subjects: Technology

Member news: Ultra-low temperatures. NIST creates a more efficient pulse-tube refrigerator prototype

American researchers have created a prototype pulse-tube refrigerator that significantly reduces the time and energy required to reach temperatures close to absolute zero: an exciting advance for the quantum...

• Publication date : 2024/06/27

Latest IIR conference papers available in FRIDOC!

Did you miss a refrigeration event? See what’s online for you.

• Publication date : 2014/12/24

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 : English, French
• 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 : English, French
• Themes : Caloric cooling (magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, elastocaloric and barocaloric cooling)