DDMC 2008

Program for Delft Days on Magnetocaloric (DDMC)

October 30 (Thursday) 2008

9:30-9:45 Welcome address by Dr G. Degen, BASF Future Business, Ludwigshafen

Workshop Session I

9:45-10:15 Magnetocaloric materials not only for cooling applications, E. Brück, TU Delft

10:15-10:45 Entropy contributions in conventional magnetocalorics and tricritical metamagnets, K. Sandeman, University of Cambridge

11:00-11:30 Improvement of magnetocaloric properties toward high efficiency cooling in La(FexSi1-x)13 by hydrogenation and partial substitution, A. Fujita, Tohoku University

11:30-12:00 Determination of magnetocaloric parameters through magnetic and thermodynamic methods in first-order transitions, R. Burriel, University of Zaragoza

Workshop Session II

14:00-14:30 Model of layered AMR, K. Zimm, Astronautics

14:30-15:00 Magnetic refrigerants obtained by novel processing routes, J. Lyubina and O. Gutfleisch, IFW-Dresden

15:15-15:45 Magnetocaloric and Shape-Memory Properties in Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloys, A. Planes, University of Barcelona

15.45-16.15 Magnetocaloric properties of reactively sintered La(Fe,Co,Si)13, M.Katter, Vacuumschmelze

16.15-16.45 Determining the magnetocaloric effect in hysteretic materials, L. Caron, TU Delft

16.45-17.00 Evaluation of Alternative Refrigeration Cycles for Domestic Refrigeration - Performance Metrics and Expectations, E. Oguz, Arcelik A.S.

17.00-17.15 Magnetostriction - a way to detect lattice contributions to the magnetocaloric effect in CoMnSi based materials, A. Barcza

October 31 (Friday)

Workshop Session III

9:00-9:30 Pressure Dependence of Magnetocaloric Effect of MnAs1-x Sbx and La(Fe1-x Six )13 , H. Wada, Kyushu University

9:30-10:00 Pressure effects on the thermal hysteresis in MnFe(P,Ge) compounds O. Tegus, Inner Mongolia Normal University

10:20-10:50 An Isothermal Calorimeter for direct measurement of magnetocaloric properties, L. Giudici, INRIM Torino

10:50-11:20 Advanced modeling of Active Magnetic Regeneration, K.K. Nielsen, Risø

11:20-11:50 Global warming and refrigeration: how we can make all a difference? A. Pastore, Camfridge