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ISO Standard for Testing Insulation Materials .... 10 Cooling a Superconducting Accelerator Cavity .. 20 LN2 Enables Greener Tractor Trailers ................... 14 Buyer’s Guide ................................................35-81 Silk Thrives in Cryogenic Temperatures ............. 15 Conference Connect ........................................... 86 Corporate 2020 Buyer’s Guide Directory Products and Services for Cryogenic and Superconductivity Applications Worldwide LUX-ZEPLIN Cryostat Installed at Sanford Underground Research Facility | 16 Volume 35 Number 6 2019 Join Our Growing Family of CSA Get connected to the cryogenic community worldwide. Let your voice be heard and Corporate Sustaining Members your contributions known. Abbess Instruments and Systems, Inc. Cryogenic Machinery Corporation Janis Research Company LLC Rockwood Composites Ability Engineering Technology, Inc. Cryoguard Corporation Kadel Engineering Corp. RUAG Space GmbH Acme Cryogenics, Inc. Cryomagnetics, Inc. Kelvin International Corporation Sauer Compressors USA Scientifi c Instruments, Inc. Ad-Vance Magnetics Cryomech, Inc. Kelvin Technology, Inc. SGD Inc. Advanced Research Systems, Inc. Cryonova, LLC KEYCOM Corporation Shell-N-Tube Pvt. Ltd. Aerospace Fabrication & Materials CryoVac GmbH kiutra GmbH shirokuma GmbH AFCryo/Fabrum Solutions CryoWorks, Inc. Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. Sierra Lobo, Inc. Air Liquide advanced Technologies Cryoworld BV Lihan Cryogenics SONICU Alloy Valves and Control CSIC Pride (Nanjing) Cryogenic Linde Cryogenics, Division of Linde Technology Co., Ltd. Engineering North America Inc. Space Dynamics Laboratory American Magnetics, Inc. Spaulding Composites Inc. CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Lydall Performance Materials Amuneal Manufacturing Corp. Spectrum Specialty Valves* CTD—Composite Technology Magnatrol Valve Corporation Argonne National Laboratory Development, Inc. SPS Cryogenics BV Magnus Precision Manufacturing, Inc. Barber-Nichols Inc. Demaco Holland BV STAR Cryoelectronics Marathon Products, Inc. CCH Equipment Company DMP CryoSystems, Inc. Stirling Cryogenics BV Master Bond Chart Inc. East Coast Microwave Sales & Stöhr Armaturen GmbH & Co. KG MetaVista Inc. Distribution LLC Circor Cryogenics Sumitomo (SHI) Cryogenics of Meyer Tool & Mfg., Inc. America, Inc. EPSIM Corporation Clark Industries, Inc. MMR Technologies, Inc. Sunpower, Inc. Equigas, Inc. Coax Co., Ltd. Molecular Products, Inc. SuperPower, Inc. Essex Industries CoolCAD Electronics, LLC* Taylor-Wharton Cryogenics NASA Kennedy Cryogenics Facility for Rare Isotope Beams— Test Laboratory Cool Pair Plus Michigan State University Technifab Products, Inc. National High Magnetic Field Technology Applications, Inc. Creare LLC Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Laboratory Tempshield Cryo-Protection Criomec SA Fin Tube Products, Inc. Nexans Deutschland GmbH The Phoenix Company of Chicago Criotec Impianti SpA Gardner Cryogenics Niowave, Inc. Thermal Management Technologies Cryo Industries of America Gas Equipment Company Oak Ridge National Laboratory Thermal Space Cryo Service LTDA GasLab Oxford Instruments NanoScience Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Cryo Technologies Gaztransport & Technigaz Penfl ex TRIUMF Cryoco LLC HPD PHPK Technologies TS Italia SRL CryoCoax HSR AG Precision Measurements and Instruments Corp. Universal Cryogenics Cryocomp Hypres Inc. Prentex Alloy Fabricators, Inc. Vacuum Barrier Corporation Cryoconnect Imtek Cryogenics Quantum Design, Inc. Vacuum Energy Inc. Cryofab, Inc. Independence Cryogenic Engineering, LLC Quantum Technology Corp. Valcor Engineering Corporation Cryogas Tech Sdn. Bhd. Web Industries Indium Wire Extrusion* QuinStar Technology, Inc. Cryogenic Control Systems, Inc. WEKA AG Instant Systems, Inc. Ratermann Manufacturing, Inc. Cryogenic Industries, Nikkiso West Coast Solutions Intelline, Inc. Redstone Aerospace Cryogenic Institute of New England West Warwick Welding, Inc. International Cryogenics, Inc. RegO Cryogenic Limited * New member since last issue Inside This Issue 8 18 22 30 2020 BUYER’S GUIDE 33 Leybold Supplies Space Simulation Technology 35 Products and Services 82 KEK Publishes the International Working Group’s Recommendations for International 49 Alphabetical Listing Linear Collider 61 Supplier Profiles 85 Woman Hospitalized, Loses Gallbladder after Drinking Liquid Nitrogen at Florida Hotel FEATURES 86 Conference Connect 8 Securing Flight’s Clean Future with Cryogenics and Superconductivity COLUMNS 10 Development of an ISO Standard for the Testing of 6 Executive Director’s Letter Insulation Materials under Cryogenic Conditions SPOTLIGHTS 13 Quantum Consortium Holds Workshop on Advances in Cryogenic Technology 24 Phoenix Company of Chicago PkZ System Advances RF Cable Density with Ease 14 Liquid Nitrogen Enables Greener Tractor Trailers 28 RegO Announces Major Expansion of Manufacturing 15 A Filament Fit for Space: Silk Is Proven to Thrive Capabilities at its North Carolina Facility in Cryogenic Temperatures 31 Cryomech Breaks Ground on 16 LUX-ZEPLIN Cryostat Installed at Sanford New Manufacturing Facility Underground Research Facility 18 Cryoline Installation Begins at ITER 91 PRODUCT SHOWCASE 20 Cool and Dry: A Revolutionary Method for Cooling a 92 PEOPLE & COMPANIES Superconducting Accelerator Cavity 93 CALENDAR 22 First Magnet Installed for the ALPS II Experiment at DESY 26 Book Review: Low-Loss Storage and Handling of ON OUR COVER Cryogenic Liquids, 2nd Edition, by Bostock and Scurlock The LUX-ZEPLIN time projection chamber, the experiment’s main 29 New Cryogenic Hardware and Software Technologies detector, is pictured here in a Improve Biorepositories clean room at the Sanford Under- ground Research Facility before it was wrapped and delivered under- 30 Researchers Observe Exotic Radioactive Decay Process ground. Image: Matthew Kapust, Sanford In all instances, “CSA CSM” indicates a Corporate Sustaining Member of CSA. Underground Research Facility Cold Facts | December 2019 | Volume 35 Number 65 cryogenicsociety.org From the Executive Director Cold Facts Magazine Welcome Coming in Cold Facts for 2020, Executive Editor to the 2020 Cold look for two new columns by out- LAURIE HUGET Facts Buyer’s standing contributors! In response Editor Guide! We to growing interest in hydrogen, in TATE PAGLIA bring you the relation to cryogenics and to its role Advertising Coordinator most compre- in the clean energy future, we are LEA MARTINEZ hensive collec- pleased to welcome James Fesmire, Online Marketing Manager tion of supplier former CSA president and senior JO SNYDER information on principal investigator for NASA Graphic Designer the international cryogenics and Kennedy Exploration Research ISRAEL REZA superconductivity industries avail- and Technology programs, and CSA Board of Technical Directors able. We spend the months after the Jacob Leachman, professor at Board Chairman print edition is in your hands up- Washington State University and JOHN WEISEND II European Spallation Source (ERIC) dating and correcting the listings, 2018 CSA Boom awardee. They will 46 46-888 31 50 checking continually to be sure the provide their distinct insights into President listings are accurate. We know our the hydrogen present and future. PETER SHIRRON, NASA Goddard 818-354-8751 readers keep this issue handy year They will be joining our distin- round for sourcing the products guished columnists John Weisend Past President MELORA LARSON, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and services they need. The online II of ESS (Cryo Bios), John Jurns of 321-867-7557 version will be updated regularly NIST (Cryo Oops) and our rotating as well. Space Cryogenics columnists orga- President-Elect JOHN PFOTENHAUER, University of Wisconsin– nized by Wesley Johnson of NASA Madison| 301-286-7327 This issue also contains some Glenn. Treasurer solid reporting on timely topics RICH DAUSMAN, Cryomech, Inc. 315-455-2555 you’ll want to know more about. We end 2019 with 139 Corporate Sustaining Members and Secretary JONATHAN DEMKO Our feature technology sec- more planning to join in 2020. We LeTourneau University tion focuses on cryogenics around thank our members and advertis- Executive Director the world and accelerators and ers for your loyal support. Without LAURIE HUGET Huget Advertising, Inc. | 708-383-6220 x 302 high energy research. Look for a you there would be no CSA. review of the second edition of Registered Agent Bostock and Scurlock’s “Low-Loss We also thank our board of WERNER K. HUGET, Huget Advertising, Inc. Storage and Handling of Cryogenic technical directors who help steer Technical Directors Liquids.” There are reports on the the society. PETER BRADLEY, NIST, Boulder European Cryogenics Days, the 3rd LANCE COOLEY, Center for Superconductivity, FSU International Workshop on Cooling Wishing all a happy and pros- SCOTT COURTS, Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. Systems for High Temperature perous 2020! ■ EILEEN CUNNINGHAM, Meyer Tool & Mfg. Superconductor Applications and the First Cryogenic Heat and Mass LUKAS GRABER, Georgia Institute of Technology Transfer Conference. We hope CARL KIRKCONNELL, West Coast Solutions you’ll find a lot to like! PETER KNUDSEN, MSU/FRIB MIKE MEYER, NASA Langley Research Center We have some exciting plans CHRIS REY, Energy to Power Solutions (E2P) for the magazine for next year. MARK ZAGAROLA, Creare LLC Cold Facts (ISSN 1085-5262) is published six times per year by the Editorial Board Cryogenic Society of America, Inc. Contents ©2019 Cryogenic Society of America, Inc. Randall Barron, John Pfotenhauer, University