Cryogenic Process Engineering

by Klaus D. Timmerhaus and Thomas M. Flynn

Book Overview

Cryogenics, a term commonly used to refer to very low temperatures, had its beginning in the latter half of the last century when man learned, for the first time, how to cool objects to a temperature lower than had ever existed na tu rally on the face of the earth. The air we breathe was first liquefied in 1883 by a Polish scientist named Olszewski. Ten years later he and a British scientist, Sir James Dewar, liquefied hydrogen. Helium, the last of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306432838
• ISBN13: 9780306432835
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.