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Praxair Finds New Market For Cooling System

July 14, 2008 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 86, Issue 28

The NCOOL heat exchanger is used for precision cooling.
Credit: Praxair

Praxair has signed a contract to supply a cooling system dubbed NCOOL, which uses liquid nitrogen as a heat-exchange fluid, to Jiangsu Defeng Pharmaceutical & Chemical. The Chinese maker of active pharmaceutical ingredients plans to introduce a new product that it must rapidly cool in a large-volume reactor to below –30 °C. Praxair says the new application opens the pharmaceutical industry to the cryogenic cooling market.

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