Since the demise of the shuttle programme, other companies are now moving to the forefront of commercial space flight, we supply coolant for electronics systems aboard the space vehicle.
Our perfluorocarbons are used as the working fluid in heat cycle engines. These devices work as refrigerators in reverse, converting waste heat into electricity.
The search for answers to the fundamental questions about life are being sought at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. We supply fluids to cool the detectors to keep them within operating parameters.
Radar systems run at very high operating temperatures. These electronic systems can be immersed into Flutec® fluids which can be pumped round a cooling system to dissipate the heat created.
Pinpointing a breakage in an underground power cable is possible using Flutec® fluids. The tracer is pumped into the pressurised oil filled cable, when a break occurs specially equiped vans can detect the leaking fluid beneath the ground.
Oil reservoirs can be mapped by establishing how Flutec® tracers move from one well to another in the oil field. This offers a vital insight into the nature of the oil reserve.
One of our customers uses Flutec® liquids to test the the density of medieval coins. The weight of the coin provides a clue to the material the coin is made of. This helps with identifying the age and period the coin is from.
Immersing a lit light bulb into a perfluorocarbon is possible due to the extremely low electrical conductivity of the fluid, not something to be repeated in water!
Flutec® Tracers enable the tracking of pockets of air from source of pollution to dispersal or deposition. These tracers can be detected many miles away using highly specialised equipment.