Cryogenics and the energy crisis

✍ Scribed by B.W. Birmingham; C.N. Smith

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 466 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-2275
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-2275(75)90176-9

✦ Synopsis

This paper reviews some of the ways cryogenics can help solve the energy crisis, Five specific areas are covered: the use of LNG, the conversion of coal to fuel gas using oxygen from air separation plants, the use of superconductors in power plants and electrical transmission lines, superconducting instruments for geophysical exploration of new energy resources, and the Hydrogen Economy.

Cryogenics and the energy crisis

B. W. Birmingham and C