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  • London: a look underground

    Despite a £100 000 prize and several thousand entries from all over the world, the competition launched in London to find innovative new solutions to cool its underground system has failed to find a winner. The competition was first reported by...

    • Date de publication : 30/09/2005
  • Underground storage of liquid CO2

    Dispensing of CO2 by storing it underground usually implies placing it in aquifer rocks deep enough (-800 m) to achieve sufficient pressure to maintain the CO2 in a supercritical (fluid) phase. This approach has many shortcomings as in this form,...

    • Date de publication : 15/11/2006
  • Underground river to cool the London tube

    The "Cooling the Tube" competition in 2003, promising GBP 100 000 to those finding a workable solution to cool the Tube, received 3400 entries. Modern systems with large tunnels and surface lines can be cooled using air-cooling systems. However,...

    • Date de publication : 11/02/2005
  • L'ammoniac et la glace pour refroidir les mines

    Le refroidissement du sous-sol, où la température peut excéder 60°C est un défi de taille auquel est confronté l'industrie minière.

    • Date de publication : 12/05/2015
  • CERN milestone

    CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and a corporate member of the IIR, has announced that an important milestone was reached in August 2005 with the installation of the two largest magnets ever built for experiments at CERN. On...

    • Date de publication : 26/10/2005
  • Green buildings: Darmstadtium

    Darmstadtium features pioneering energy-saving and environmental technologies. For instance, a "Calla" - a flower-like funnel-shaped glass roof - in the heart of the building collects rainwater, lets in daylight and sucks in fresh air. Cooling is...

    • Date de publication : 11/07/2008
  • Mine cooling

    Cooling the world's deepest single-shaft mine: cooling Anglogold Mponeng gold mine in Gauteng, South Africa, is a challenge - the mine is 3.68 km deep and without cooling, temperatures can reach 60°C at the mine face. Six 3.5 MW Eco-Vim...

    • Date de publication : 28/01/2006
  • 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....

    • Date de publication : 12/02/2007
  • Bunker under highly controlled-atmosphere to measure Earth’s rotation

    Equipment with extremely stable laser requires perfect mastery of air pressure and temperature.

    • Date de publication : 30/08/2012
  • Martinique : un projet de réseau de froid géothermique

    Le permis de recherche de Storengy et TLS Geothermics a été accordé pour explorer le sous-sol martiniquais et le potentiel géothermique. Engie Solutions apportera au projet son expertise en matière de réseau de...

    • Date de publication : 03/09/2021
    • Sujets : Environnement
  • 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...

    • Date de publication : 21/02/2012
  • Trigeneration for new MediaCityUK

    MediaCityUK, based at Salford Quays, on Manchester’s historic Ship Canal, is a new media enterprise zone for northern England. The BBC relocated five of its departments from London to the site in 2011.

    • Date de publication : 17/07/2012
  • Tours à vent : la naissance de la climatisation et du froid naturel ?

    Les tours à vent, capables de réduire la température intérieure d’environ 10 °C et de stocker de l’eau à des températures proches du point de congélation, sont utilisées depuis des siècles dans de nombreuses régions du monde.

    • Date de publication : 22/11/2018
  • Les derniers projets de refroidissement urbain à énergie géothermique

    En décembre 2023, La France et les Émirats arabes unis ont lancé des projets de refroidissement urbain à énergie géothermique.

    • Date de publication : 25/01/2024
    • Sujets : Technologie
  • Des solutions innovantes pour réduire les besoins en refroidissement des centres de données

    Alors que la demande mondiale de données continue de croître, la création de nouveaux centres de données pose la question de leur refroidissement. Des solutions innovantes utilisant des sources d’énergie...

    • Date de publication : 27/05/2020
    • Sujets : Technologie