Barber-Nichols LLC

Barber-Nichols designs and manufactures vacuum jacketed, extended shaft centrifugal pumps, circulators, blowers and compressors for use with fluids at temperatures down to 2.6 K. These units minimize heat leak and are highly efficient, hermetically sealed and easy to service.

Custom-engineered products are custom designed for integration into your specified system, and system performance is optimized as a result. These features provide an extremely low total cost of ownership. Fluids include helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, LNG and more.

Select applications include the following:

• Cooling of superconducting magnets
• Cycling of temperatures in satellite test chambers
• Pumping of liquid rocket engine propellants
• Cooling of synchrotron beamline crystals
• Processing of LNG vapor and transfer of cryogens