A liquid nitrogen leak from a cryogenic freezing system at Foundation Food Group’s Gainesville Plant 4 killed six people, required 12 to be hospitalized, and led to the evacuation of 130 others in Gainesville, Ga. The plant is owned by Foundation Food Group, recently formed by the merger of Prime-Pack Foods and Victory Processing. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is on site and investigating.

Industrial process cooling systems can operate at very cold and even cryogenic temperatures. Creating liquefied natural gas (LNG), for example, requires refrigeration systems to operate at temperatures of -265°F (-165°C) or less. 

Lake Shore Cryotronics acquired Janis Research’s laboratory cryogenics business. The deal unites two providers of cryogenic and material characterization solutions for low temperature research.

CPC-Cryolab Series 5000 is suited for use in in ultra-cold cryogenic storage tanks, transportation trailers, and vacuum jacketed and non-jacketed piping systems. 

Industrial hemp and its cannabidiol (CBD) derivatives have pushed to double-digit growth rates in the last few years, bringing with it substantial growing pains.

Some farms grow food,” says the soothing yet authoritative voiceover in the commercial. “This one grows fuel.” So begins a recent television commercial from ExxonMobil that brings again to the consumer consciousness the idea of growing algae for biofuel production. 

With our Process Cooling 2019 index, you can revisit articles from this past year at a glance as we head into 2020.

Freezing preserves raw or prepared foods to allow them to be stored for an extended period. Placing food in a frozen state slows decomposition by converting residual moisture to ice, inhibiting the growth of most bacterial species, and locking in important sensory attributes like taste, color and essential nutrients.

If manufacturing were a person (stick with me here…), it would be the world’s worst control freak. Think about it: knowledge and control are the name of the game in effective manufacturing. 

Cryogenic Industries Service Companies (NCS), a functional unit of Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries’ Clean Energy and Industrial Gases Group, moved to 1851 Kaiser Ave. in Irvine, Calif. The facility will serve as the headquarters for the recently formed Cryogenic Services unit, which manages all 16 global facilities and over 60 field service technicians.