The element Xenon is a heavy, inert, noble gas discovered by William Ramsay and Morris Travers in London in 1898 after they fractionally distilled liquid air.
Tier One player, Air Liquide, has signed two separate contracts, worth a combined total of €20m ($22m), for the supply of high purity xenon (Xe) in the all-electric propulsion satellite market.
I grew up in an era of Apollo space missions and NASA promises to put a man on Mars by 1983. While we haven’t yet landed any men — or women — this movie makes...
The Defense, Space and Security unit of the Boeing Company announced in September that the world’s first all-electric propulsion satellite had begun operations.
It has been a year and a half since I wrote the last article on rare gases for CryoGas International. As I stated then, I am amazed at how volatile this market can be.
It has been a year since I wrote the last article on rare gases, for gasworld’s sister publication CryoGas International. As I stated then, I am amazed at how volatile this market can be.
Midway through 2014 and the global industrial gases industry is in the midst of a gradually improving business environment.
Last year, I estimated total 2012 world production of Kr would be 97 million liters, production of Xe at 10.5 million liters, and Ne production at about 625 million liters. In my follow up plant-by-plant analysis, I found that the...
Rare gases, which include krypton (Ke), xenon (Xe), and neon (Ne), are byproducts of air separation units (ASUs) that produce large quantities of oxygen and nitrogen. Historically, to be economically feasible, the rule of thumb was that an ASU must...
The rare gases krypton (Kr) and xenon (Xe) are both volatile global products. This volatility stems from their end use applications in fluctuating markets like construction, lighting, and electronics, and from the global control of sources of their production. Furthermore,...
