5th Intl. Conference on Cryogenics and Refrigeration

May 3, 2013 (HE71).  The 5th International Conference on Cryogenics and Refrigeration (ICCR2013) was held in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, from April 6th to 9th, 2013.  The attendance included 330 participants from 17 countries.  The group photo of the attendees is included below (Photo 1)

Photo 1. Group photo of ICCR 2013 participants.

The Conference website (http://www.doe.zju.edu.cn/ICCR2013/) is still active and contains pertinent information on that recent event.  We mention here that the following eight keynote plenary talks (see Photo 2 below) were presented:

GROLL Eckhard, Purdue University, USA 
Novel Compression and System Concepts for Cold Climate Air-Source Heat Pumps

RADERMACHER K. R., University of Maryland, USA 
Thoughts on Robust System Design

OHLIG Klaus, CEO of Linde Kryotechnik AG, Switzerland 
Latest Developments and Outlook for Hydrogen Liquefaction Technology

PFOTENHAUER John, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA，Zhejiang University, China
Recent Progress in Pulsating Heat Pipe Technology for Cryogenic Systems

WATSON Tom, ASHRAE President, USA 
Reducing the Impact of Refrigerants on the Environment

CHRZ Vaclav, Chart Ferox, Czech Republic, ex-president of A2 and honorary member of IIR
Liquefied industrial gases and small LNG technology in 21st century

LUO Ercang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, China
Advances in Some Thermoacoustic Fundamentals and Thermoacoustic Heat Engines/Refrigerators

CHEN Guangming, Zhejiang University, China 
Cooling availability: concept, fundamentals and applications

Sixteen companies attended the exhibition, among others Air Liquide, Chart, DeMaCo, Linde, Sumitomo, and TransMit.  

Photo 2. One of the plenary sessions.