Advances in Cryogenic Engineering

LNG Technology.- A-1 Liquefied Natural Gas—A Broad Perspective.- A-2 Mixed Refrigerant Cascade Liquefiers for Natural Gas—Design and Optimization.- A-3 Computer Simulation of Natural Gas Liquefaction Plant Processes.- A-4 Design Considerations for a Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline.- Thermodynamic Properties.- B-1 The Vapor Pressure of Liquid Fluorine.- B-2 A Multipurpose Phase Equilibrium Apparatus to Study Mixtures of Cryogenic Fluids: Application to Argon-Methane.- B-3 Adsorption Kinetics in a Ternary System Containing Hydrogen.- B-4 The P-V-T Surface of Oxygen in the Critical Region; Densities of Saturated Liquid and Vapor.- Fluid and Solid Properties.- C-1 Thermal Conductivity Measurements on Fluid Hydrogen at 17 to 200°K and Pressures to 10 MN/m2.- C-2 Refractive Index of Liquid Deuterium.- C-3 Measurements of the Dielectric Constant of Saturated Liquid Oxygen.- C-4 The Dielectric Strength of Cryogenic Fluids and Solid Insulators.- C-5 Low-Temperature Electrical Resistivity of Some Engineering Alloys.- Mechanical Properties.- D-1 Tear Tests of 5083 Plate and of 5183 Welds in 5083 Plate and Extrusions.- D-2 Tensile Properties of Various Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures.- D-3 Cryostat and Strain Measurement for Tensile Tests to 1.5°K.- Superconductivity.- E-1 Magnetic Suspension and Guidance for High-Speed Trains by Means of Superconducting Magnets and Eddy Currents.- E-2 A Superconducting (Nb-Ti) Liquid Helium Level Detector.- E-3 The Design of a Rotating Dewar and Field Winding for a Superconducting Alternator.- Superconducting Magnets.- F-1 Construction of the 12-ft Bubble Chamber Superconducting-Magnet Cryostat.- F-2 Refrigeration Aspects of the ANL 12-ft Bubble Chamber Superconducting-Magnet System.- F-3 BIM, A Large 10-MJ Magnet.- F-4 The Design andOperation of an 88-kG 20-in.-Bore Superconducting Magnet System.- F-5 Performance Tests of 51-cm-Bore Superconductive Magnets for a Magnetic-Mirror Apparatus.- F-6 Force-Reduced Superconducting Toroidal Magnet Coils.- F-7 The Detection of Transitions in Superconducting Coils.- Heat Transfer.- G-1 Survey of Heat Transfer to Near-Critical Fluids.- G-2 Forced-Convection Heat Transfer to Nitrogen in the Vicinity of the Critical Point.- G-3 Heat Transfer to Freon-12 in the Near-Critical Regime.- G-4 Nucleate Boiling of Nitrogen, Argon, and Carbon Monoxide from Atmospheric to Near the Critical Pressure.- G-5 Transient Pool Boiling of Liquid Nitrogen Due to a Square-Wave Heat Flux.- G-6 Heat-Transfer Coefficient Measurements of Liquid Nitrogen Drops Undergoing Film Boiling.- G-7 Estimation of Film-Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficients for Cylindrical Heaters in Corresponding-States Fluids.- G-8 Saturated Film Boiling of Nitrogen from Atmospheric to the Critical Pressure.- G-9 Peak Heat Flux Density of Superfluid He II in Insulated Vertical Channels with Closed Ends and Wells.- G-10 Correlation of the Depth Effect on Film-Boiling Heat Transfer in Liquid Helium II.- G-11 Condensation Studies of Saturated Nitrogen Vapors.- G-12 Heat Exchanger Design for Rocket-Borne Cryogenic Air Samplers.- Insulation.- H-1 A Guarded Electrical Cylindrical Calorimeter for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Multilayer Insulation.- H-2 An Analytical Model for Determining the Thermal Conductivity of Closed-Cell Foam Insulation.- H-3 Pressure Characteristics of Perlite Insulation in Double-Wall Tanks Under Repeated Thermal Cycling.- Fluid Dynamics.- I-1 Cooldown Flow Rate Limits Imposed by Thermal Stresses in Liquid Hydrogen or Nitrogen Pipelines.- I-2 Cooldown Transients in Cryogenic Transfer Lines.- I-3 A Time-Delay Analog for Thermal-Acoustic Oscillations.- I-4 Automatic Control of Flow Oscillations in Cryogenic Fluid Heat Exchangers.- I-5 Pressure Drop of Two-Phase Flow in a Pipeline with Longitudinal Variations in Heat Flux.- I-6 Slush Hydrogen Flow Characteristics and Solid Fraction Upgrading.- Gas Purification Systems.- J-1 300-scfm Helium Repurifier System.- J-2 High-Purity Products from an Air Separation Plant.- J-3 Rectisol: A Low-Temperature Scrubbing Process for Gas Purification.- Refrigeration Systems.- K-1 Applications of Helium to Very-Low-Temperature Refrigeration.- K-2 Simon Helium Liquefaction Method Using a Refrigerator and Thermal Valve.- K-3 Operation and Application of a Three-Stage Closed-Cycle Regenerative Refrigerator in the 6.5°K Region.- K-4 Low-Temperature Regenerator Test Apparatus.- K-5 Joule-Thomson Hydrogen Refrigerator Target.- K-6 Miniature Vuilleumier-Cycle Refrigerator.- Cryogenic Systems.- L-1 J-T Liquefaction of Hydrogen-Hydrocarbon Gas Mixtures.- L-2 Frost Formation on a Cylinder at Cryogenic Temperatures.- L-3 An Experimental Study of the Density of Cryodeposited Surfaces.- L-4 Preparation and Characterization of Slush Hydrogen and Nitrogen Gels.- Indexes.- Author Index.