The Horizon 2020 Remote-NMR project is hosting an online symposium focused on helium recovery, a topic that may interest facility managers across the NMR community. The opening presentation by Thomas Vosegaard (Aarhus) will feature the CO2 calculator developed during the R-NMR project, which estimates the carbon footprint of different spectrometer configurations. He will also discuss how the source of liquid helium and its transportation method influence the CO2 footprint of operating an NMR spectrometer or facility. Following this, representatives from NMR facilities, as well as Bruker and JEOL, will present various solutions for helium recycling.
Everyone is invited to join via the Zoom link provided. Looking forward to seeing some of you online this Wednesday!
Remote-NMR Online Symposium
Wednesday January 29th 1500-1700 CET (2pm – 4pm UK time)
https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/68113390878?pwd=OuGSmWUpbJHvGJkpQUWp7bezOnGbXW.1
Title: ‘Helium recovery options for this scarce resource and the carbon footprint
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