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76 1993 N o 4851 Linde process of natural gas liquefaction (MFC ® s3) Precooling Cycle (PC) Liquefaction Cycle (LC) Subcooling Cycle (SC) Functional schematic of the Linde process of natural gas liquefaction (MFC ® s3). Precooling Cycle (PC) Liquefaction Cycle (LC) Subcooling Cycle (SC) Nat. Gas = Natural Gas NGL = Natural Gas Liquids = liquid gases such as propane and butane LNG = Liquefied Natural Gas Nat.Gas NGL LNG GT = Gas turbine LP = Low pressure HP = High pressure GT GT GT LP HP 1994
N o 4946 Device for the recovery of pure xenon. The successful history of cryotechnology As early as 1932, Linde installed the world’s first industrial helium liquefaction plant at the University of Kharkov in the Ukraine – now over 500 such plants are in operation worldwide. Cryotechnology plants are used for a wide variety of applications: for basic research, in industry, for cooling superconductors, for fusion and fission research and for the liquefaction of helium and hydrogen. In the area of resistance-free superconduction, for example, which is possible only at ultra-low temperatures, Linde has been involved in every major project of the last several decades, such as the Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA) at DESY in Hamburg to research microstructures, or the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), the latest particle accelerator at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, which has been in progress since 1999. Linde is also supplying a helium cooling system for a highenergy physics project by the Technical University of Munich. In medical technology, for example, liquid helium is used to cool the superconducting magnetic coils in nuclear spin tomography. Linde also built a cryolaboratory in Höllriegelskreuth in 1987 for the development of cryogenic applications for space technology, in which experiments were carried out at a temperature of minus 271 degrees Celsius (1.5 K). By 1994 Linde had equipped the ISO research satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) with a cryogenic helium tank, for example. In 1992, Linde took over the cryotechnology department of the Swiss machinery builder Gebrüder Sulzer AG, thus acquiring, among other things, the technology to build expansion turbines, a key component of helium and hydrogen cooling systems or liquefiers. Cryogenics is already a significant technology today for the use of hydrogen in a number of industrial processes. If hydrogen becomes widespread as an alternative fuel for automobiles, this will give cryotechnology another decisive push forward. N o 4969 Cold compressor with integrated double seal system (cryotechnology). 1995 End of the civil war which has raged since 1991 in the former Yugoslavia. Liquid helium from Linde is also used in medical procedures such as nuclear spin tomography. Strategic directions within the Group In order to repel the threat of a takeover – or better yet not to let one come up at all – Hans Meinhardt had already effected a voting rights limit of ten percent at the shareholders’ meeting of 1973. After intense discussions, 80 percent of the shareholders voted for this proposal. The attitude of major shareholder Allianz AG, which supported the proposal by the Executive Board, was one factor that contributed to its success. After 1976, Meinhardt worked successfully to engage institutional investors such as Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank in longterm involvement with Linde AG and thus create a stable ownership structure. 77
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