Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the life sciences – though this only represents a very small percentage of the greater merchant market, it is an interesting and valuable area of the industry. In the life sciences...
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. In southern France, no less than 35 nations are collaborating to build the world’s largest tokamak...
Turboexpanders are the heart of cryogenic process cycles everywhere, including air separation and gas liquefaction systems. At the same time, the component that is critical to those processes and is essential to trouble-free system efficiency...
From time to time the cryogenic engineer is required to design a phase separator into a piping system. To achieve performance that meets expectation requires a basic understanding of thermodynamics, cryogenic fluid flow characteristics, and...
In 2016, the North Pacific Rim industrial gas business was valued at just under $18bn, and for the first time in history, eclipsed the size of the European market to become the second-largest regional gas...
Whether it’s heating media up or cooling it down, time is of the essence in the industrial gas industry. Companies and engineers need gases and liquid gases to be in the correct state, at the...
Although ambient air vaporizers might be seen as a rather ubiquitous component of the industrial gas use process, they are nevertheless a critical and mandatory sub-system – and their future is looking bright.
When gasworld last spoke at length with VRV S.p.A. just over a decade ago, it was to interview inspirational founder and President Massimiliano Spada from the company’s headquarters in Ornago, Italy.
The traditional commercial gases business is the production or supply of gas in three supply modes and associated equipment supply and support services to end-users. This supply is, generally speaking, split into three core modes:...
Although the commercial operation of the industrial gases industry in China actually took off in the mid-1990s, already decades behind the Western developed markets, the growth of the Chinese industrial gases market has been very...
