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Helium recovery online symposium
January 29 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Horizon 2020 Remote-NMR project is holding an online symposium on the topic of helium recovery. This topic may be of interest to UK facility managers. In the first talk, Thomas Vosegaard (Aarhus) will introduce the CO2 calculator developed during the R-NMR project which can be used to estimate the CO2 footprint of various spectrometer configurations. He will also show how the source of liquid helium and the method of transport can affect the CO2 footprint of this aspect of running an NMR spectrometer/facility. This will be followed by several talks from NMR facilities and from Bruker and JEOL outlining solutions to the problem of helium recycling.
Everyone is welcome to join via the Zoom link below. I hope to see some of you online next Wednesday!
(posted by Christina Redfield)
Remote-NMR Online Symposium
Wednesday January 29th 1500-1700 CET (2pm – 4pm UK time)
Title: ‘Helium recovery options for this scarce resource and the carbon footprint implications’
Summary: One of the tasks within WP2 of the Remote-NMR project has been investigation of the carbon footprint of NMR spectrometers. We have looked at the electricity consumption associated with spectrometer consoles, probes and cryo-platforms but also that involved with the production and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium. This symposium will focus on helium, which is a scarce resource. There is a growing interest in our community in the best options for helium recovery and recycling. One aspect that may not have been appreciated before is that how we source liquid helium can make different contributions to the overall carbon footprint of our NMR facilities.
15:00-15:15 Thomas Vosegaard (Aarhus) “Introduction: Carbon footprint, helium recycling and the approach at Aarhus”
15:15-15:30 Goran Karlsson (Swedish NMR Centre) “Helium recovery at the Swedish NMR Centre– bits and pieces put together”
15:30-15:45 Miquel Pons (Barcelona) “Liquid helium recovery in Spain”
15:45-16:00 Rebecca Del Conte (CERM) “Liquid helium recovery at the CERM facility”
16:00-16:15 Andrei Guranov (Utrecht) TBC
16:15-16:30 Paul Bowyer (JEOL) “JEOL Cryogen Reclamation System”.
16:30-16:45 Ruediger Weisemann (Bruker) TBC
16:45-17:00 Closing remarks