LAUDA invests in start-up for sustainable magnetic cooling technology

Future invesment in cooling solutions with-out refrigerants

05-Apr-2023 - Together with other investors, temperature control specialist LAUDA has invested in the start-up MAGNOTHERM. With this round of financing, concluding at over 5 million EUR, the multiple award-winning start-up plans to start serial production of its first sustainable refrigerator. LAUDA has been ...

Haltermann Carless to become the world's largest Cyclopentane producer

Cyclopentane makes important contribution to energy efficiency

30-Jul-2021 - With the completion of the new hydrogenation plant at the German site in Speyer, Haltermann Carless will become the largest Cyclopentane producer worldwide. New capacity volumes will be available to the market from Q1 2022. Haltermann Carless, a company of HCS Group and a leading supplier of ...

Squeeze to remove heat

Elastocaloric materials enable more efficient, 'green' cooling

26-Mar-2015 - Move over, vapor compression cooling technology. Emerging "elastocaloric" refrigeration is potentially much more efficient and, unlike vapor compression, relies on environmentally-friendly refrigerants. In elastocaloric materials a change in mechanical stress can create a change in temperature.In ...

Ultra-low temperature freezing of research material

06-Nov-2013 - In partnership with the Dutch company B.E.R.G. Koudetechniek & Klimaatbeheersing, Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) has designed and constructed an entirely new type of facility for the storage of research material at the ultra-low temperature of -80°C. This facility, named ‘Radix ...

BASF obtains exclusive rights to market magnetocaloric materials

License agreement with Dutch universities under the auspices of Technology Foundation

30-Oct-2013 - BASF New Business GmbH has entered into an agreement with the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW), Delft University of Technology and the University of Amsterdam for licenses on the basic patents for magnetocaloric materials of the manganese iron family. Cooling systems based on these new materials ...

Nanotech yields major advance in heat transfer, cooling technologies

11-Jun-2010 - Researchers at Oregon State University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a new way to apply nanostructure coatings to make heat transfer far more efficient, with important potential applications to high tech devices as well as the conventional heating and cooling ...

Along the motorway at 150 degrees below freezing

09-Nov-2009 - It often used to be the case that a breakdown in the storage or transportation of laboratory samples would lead to the loss of months or years of research work. More and more companies from the medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries are therefore entrusting their valuable ...

Magnetic technology revolutionizes refrigeration

BASF researchers cooperate with Delta Electronics, Inc.

27-Aug-2009 - BASF and Delta Electronics, Inc. want to use environmentally friendly magnetocaloric technology to develop new cooling systems and explore the opportunities of magnetocaloric power generation. The cooperation partners are working on materials and prototypes for cooling systems and power ...

Feeling the Heat: Berkeley Researchers Make Thermoelectric Breakthrough in Silicon Nanowires

14-Jan-2008 - Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of ...

Bayer MaterialScience increases MDI production in Krefeld-Uerdingen

Global MDI production capacity exceeds one million tons

03-Aug-2006 - Bayer MaterialScience AG has a global annual capacity of more than one million tons for the production of the polyurethane raw material diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI). The company has now increased its capacity in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, by a further 36,000 t/y by introducing a number of ...