Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. June. Surface temperatures pushing past 50°C with 80 percent humidity. Inside the pipes, liquefied natural gas flows at -162°C. The thermal delta between inside and outside exceeds 210 degrees.During a routine inspection, an operations engineer at an LNG receiving
At 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, a regional operations manager at a mid-sized UK supermarket chain opens an email from the Environment Agency. They want his refrigeration equipment's F-Gas compliance records, energy consumption data, and a carbon reduction action plan for the past twelve months. He's not alo
The Crack in the Cold ChainI was in a cold storage facility outside Harbin in January when a warehouse manager showed me something I will not forget. A pallet of vacuum-packed beef cuts, wrapped in standard PET-ALU-PE laminate, had been moved from a minus-five-degree holding room to a minus-twenty f