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Technical

Expertise

  1. Heat exchanger design
  2. Cryostat design
  3. Cryopump design
  4. HAZOP studies
  5. Process system design
  6. Pressure relief analysis for superconducting magnet quenching
  7. Sizing of relief devices
  8. Valve sizing
  9. Two phase flow analysis
  10. Two phase heat transfer
  11. Condensation of a volatile component in an incondensable gas
  12. Dilution refrigerators
  13. Cryostats cooled by liquid helium
  14. Cryostats cooled by liquid nitrogen
  15. Cryostat cooled by cryocoolers
  16. Subcooled liquid nitrogen cooling systems

Applications

  1. Cryostats cooled by liquid helium
  2. Cryostats cooled by liquid nitrogen
  3. Cryostat cooled by cryocoolers
  4. Two phase flow analysis
  5. Closed loop liquid helium cooling at 2 K
  6. Valve sizing
  7. Cryopumps
  8. Pressure relief analysis
  9. Sizing of relief devices
  10. Helium recovery systems
  11. Subcooled liquid nitrogen circulation systems
  12. Dilution refrigerators
  13. Pollution / VOC emission abatement
  14. Vacuum drying
  15. Freeze drying
  16. Carbon capture and storage
  17. PLC software development
  18. Pharmaceutical reaction cooling systems
  19. Liquid nitrogen dosing systems
  20. Radio telescope distributed cryogenic cooling 
  21. Pure water cooling systems

Papers that Charles Monroe has co-authored:

  • “Thermal and mechanical design and test of the CCD mount for the WEAVE spectrograph cryostats”, Stuart Bates, et al., July 2018 High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VIII.
  • “A New Cooling System For Cryocooled Permanent Magnet Undulators At Diamond Light Source”, E C Longhi et al., IPAC2014 Dresden.
  • “First concept for the E-ELT cryogenic Infrastructure”, J L Lizon et al., July 2010 Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
  • “The Cleo II Magnet- Design, Manufacture and Tests”, C M Monroe et al., ICEC 12 Southampton.