Members of the Division of Refrigeration and Heat Pumps of the Department of Thermal Sciences have been involved in the preparation of a new speciality of Refrigeration, Cryogenic and Process Engineering, which is being launched by the Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering. First degree students of Mechanical Engineering of Power Machines can opt for it.

Until now, the program of the Mechanical Engineering of Power Machines studies has been dominated by courses related to thermal engineering, with single subjects on apparatus and processes related to low temperatures.

The Faculty decided to launch a new specialty because of a high demand on the job market for graduates who can, among other things, design and modify refrigeration and cryogenic equipment and apparatus or manage processes on an industrial scale.

- Temperature reduction technologies are crucial today not only because of the ongoing climate change - underlines Bartosz Zajączkowski, PhD DSc, Assoc. Prof., head of the Division of Refrigeration and Heat Pumps. - We are developing cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, so-called high performance computing and processors require cooling using high-performance cooling equipment with huge capacities. Modern medicine needs to store some drugs (e.g., vaccines) at temperatures of tens of degrees below zero, and latest diagnostic equipment outright requires cryogenic cooling. Scientific research such as particle accelerators or astronomy based on detectors with such sensitivities that temperatures close to absolute zero are required for their normal operation.

Read more about the new speciality on the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology homepage.