A brief History Of Cryogenics

The study of Cryogenics derived from the Greek work “kryos” meaning ice cold was begun around 1877 when Swiss physicist Raoul Pictet and French engineer Louis Callietet separately liquefied oxygen for the first time. In 1898 a British professor, James Dewar, who succeeded in liquefying hydrogen gas, achieved a first in Cryogenics. Since then the study of cryogenics has advance to a great extent

The Cryogenic plant is to be established at an industrial estate at Baglan in South Wales, and will use liquid Nitrogen in a cryogenic process to freeze used tyres, making them brittle enough to shatter into rubber crumb.

The site is expected to open in early 2007, and will process 30,000 tonnes or around 4,050,000 million tyres a year, which will be made into artificial sports surfaces.

The venture is being developed and run by a new company Tyregenics Ltd, which consist of a joint venture between Credential Environmental and partners BOC Gases and Field Turf Inc.

Credential is to have the majority share of the new company, with BOC Gases contracted to supply liquid nitrogen for the plant from its site 4 miles away in Margam, South Wales.