Friday, April 10, 2009

The Cryosystem 6000 Goes to Antarctica

A CryoSystem 6000 is employed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to maintain data acquisition equipment at temperatures as low as -90°C. To make sure exact readings their equipment used to measure temperature, wind velocity, and humidity needs to be kept relatively warm. The NOAA immersed their equipment in a warm oil bath inside the CryoSystem to achieve this. The vacuum insulated dewar consistently keeps the heat out in cryogenic conditions and in this application it does the reverse too. 

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