Monthly Archives: March 2014

First Helium Test Complete in Siberian Field

The first Grasys industrial membrane plant in Russia for helium recovery from natural gas has been successfully tested at the Kovykta gas and condensate field. A joint project between Gazprom OJSC and RPC Grasys in the field of helium production, … Continue reading

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Bruker Announces Successful Installation of World’s First Compact 900 MHz Actively Refrigerated Magnet for NMR Spectroscopy at UCSD

Bruker today announced the successful installation of an Ascend™ Aeon 900 magnet, the world’s first compact, single-story NMR magnet with active refrigeration at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, CA. The Aeon technology integrates advanced refrigeration … Continue reading

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Cold Storage, Helium and HAMR. Can They Save The Spinning Disk HDD?

While super-fast flash storage has hogged the headlines, recent months have seen the available capacity of spinning disk HDDs increase to 6TB with the shipping since last September of HGST’s helium-filled SAS and SATA 3.5″ HelioSeal drives. This is a 50% … Continue reading

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Stevens Receives New Patent for Mass Spectrometry Technique

Stevens researchers have received a patent for a new mass spectrometric technique called Helium-Plasma Ionization Mass Spectrometry (HePI-MS). This versatile ionization method enables sampling of materials under ambient conditions by placing them directly in the spectrometer. Mass spectrometry (MS) is a … Continue reading

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World’s Longest Aircraft combines Parts from Airships, Planes and Helicopters

A British firm has unveiled the world’s longest aircraft – a hybrid of airship, plane and helicopter that can stay airborne for up to three weeks. The 91-metre airship developed by British company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) is filled with inert … Continue reading

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