Development of cryology in the Moscow Regional Branch of the International Academy of Refrigeration

A look back at the recently ended 20th century clearly reveals areas of science, technology, engineering, and human practice that are heavily dependent on cold and the development of low-temperature technology. These are the production, storage and transportation of food; the production, liquefaction, transportation and use of industrial and natural gases and air separation products; climate engineering and life support; medicine and ecology; a variety of fields of scientific inquiry and research in energy, electronics, physics, chemistry, metallurgy, transport engineering, aviation, space, biology and other fields. Today there is a huge and extremely important field of scientific, practical and commercial activities - cryology. The use of low temperatures in traditional and new fields of equipment and technology is constantly increasing. In Moscow alone there are more than 600 enterprises of this profile. Many of them, such as Cryogenmash, Geliymash, NIIkhimmash, VNIIkholodmash-Holding, VNIIkhimmash, Nauka, are widely known in the world. Now many new, young, but already reputable firms have emerged: Ostrov, Chrom, Cryoservice, Scaten, Aircool, Thermocool, Enei, Refco, Veza, Atek, Khimholodservis, Gazkholodtekhnika, Hamilton-Nauka, etc. This was greatly facilitated by the conditions of the domestic market and highly qualified personnel trained in the leading Moscow universities: Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Rector I.B. Fedorov), MPEI (Rector E.V. Ametistov), MSUIE (Rector M.B. Generalov), MSUPB (Rector I.A. Rogov). This article describes some developments carried out in the Moscow Regional Branch of IAR in recent years, which, in the author's opinion, are of significant importance.