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  • Briefs: Accuracy of temperature-measuring equipment

    Food Refrigeration & Process Engineering Research (FRPERC), University of Bristol (UK) has conducted studies on 3 types of temperature-monitoring equipment. The temperatures were measured between mock (tylose) food packs in 3 retail cabinets....

    • Publication date : 2004/07/27
  • Monitoring of temperatures

    The Commission Regulation (EC) No 37/2005 of 12 January 2005 on the monitoring of temperatures in the means of transport, warehousing and storage of quick-frozen foodstuffs intended for human consumption was published on January 13, 2005 in the...

    • Publication date : 2005/02/11
  • Ice Gurus

    Ice tailoring appears to be the new Olympic challenge. Ice must be tailored to each athlete's needs, e.g. long-track speed skaters prefer a surface as low as -7 to -8°C, whilst figure skaters need to dig their skates into the ice in order to pull...

    • Publication date : 2006/05/05
  • A nanoelectronic chip cooled to the world record temperature of 2.8 mK

    A group of researchers of the University of Basel succeeded in cooling a nanoelectronic chip to a temperature very close to absolute zero thanks to magnetic cooling.

    • Publication date : 2018/03/22
  • Cold stores: how to achieve net zero emissions?

    The UK Cold Chain Federation recently released a report presenting technologies to help temperature-controlled warehouses achieve net zero emissions.  

    • Publication date : 2022/07/08
    • Subjects: Environment, Figures, economy
  • Thermoelectric bracelet for body-part cooling

    A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently developed a thermoelelectric bracelet that monitors air and skin temperature sending tailored pulses of hot or cold waveforms to the wrist.

    • Publication date : 2014/03/27
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    Moderate growth of the AC market in Brazil in Q2 2024

    Data from Brazilian Association of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Heating (ABRAVA) present production and sales of air conditioning equipment for the first semester...

    • Publication date : 2024/12/05
    • Subjects: Figures, economy
  • 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