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  • Sleep tight

    A small air-conditioning system known as ‘Fresh Bed' has been invented that pumps air through a mattress, deterring bed bugs. The system has a dual function that air-conditions the bed at night at a constant temperature that can be regulated by...

    • Publication date : 2006/01/24
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  • Effects of air conditioner airflow on human sleep.

    A recent study published in Energy and Buildings measures the impact of the velocity of an air conditioner airflow on the quality of sleep.

    • Publication date : 2017/03/03
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  • Cryo-Evolution

    Thanks to advances in new freezing techniques, Israeli scientists have successfully transplanted whole frozen and thawed ovaries in sheep, retrieved oocytes from these ovaries and triggered them in the laboratory into early embryonic development,...

    • Publication date : 2005/10/26
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  • 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
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  • Honey is an efficient natural cryoprotectant in fertility preservation

    While several review articles point to the need for new, effective and less toxic cryoprotectants, honey has proven to be an effective non-penetrating...

    • Publication date : 2022/03/31
    • Subjects: Technology
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  • The Netherlands heat pump market situation

    From 2010 to 2011 there was a steep rise in heat pump numbers sold.

    • Publication date : 2016/02/19
    • Subjects: Figures, economy
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  • Publication of an update on new refrigerants designations and safety classifications.

    UN Environment and ASHRAE recently published a fact sheet to provide an update on ASHRAE Standards 34, which lists the designations of refrigerants.

    • Publication date : 2017/03/17
    • Subjects: HFCs alternatives, Regulation
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  • UNEP and ASHRAE updated list of new refrigerant designations

    In July 2024, UNEP and ASHRAE published a fact sheet to provide an update on ASHRAE Standard 34, available in English, Spanish and Russian. 

    • Publication date : 2024/07/22
    • Subjects: Regulation
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  • Low-GWP alternatives in refrigerated transport

    An EPA fact sheet provides full details on alternatives to HFCs: R744, R717, hydrocarbons and HFOs, and describes alternative technologies: cryogenic systems, secondary loop systems, eutectic plates, hermetic and semi-hermetic vapour-compression...

    • Publication date : 2012/04/19
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  • 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)
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  • 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
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  • Ice cream manufacturing, environmental impact and market data

    From a physico-chemical point of view, ice cream is a complex, frozen multiphase mixture. The manufacturing process includes several stages of freezing which are described in this...

    • Last update : 2023/06/30
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Ice creams
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