A new helium liquefier serves the researchers at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Helium has numerous forms of use: it is applied as a filling material for balloons and airships, as well as in its liquid state as a coolant, for example in superconducting magnets. The Helium Liquefaction Plant has been operating at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME-FTK) since 1994. We have all known helium since childhood, as it made colorful balloons float to...