CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research located in Geneva, is once again making use of the Italian technology of NOVAIR.
NOVAIR NGS has won the CERN tender for the supply of a fully customized nitrogen and instrument air generator for the CMS “Compact Muon Solenoid” experiment. This great success occurs 10 years after the company won a first tender from CERN, beating a series of competitors from all over the world.
Based in Grosseto, Tuscany, NOVAIR NGS, is the Italian branch of the French multinational group NOVAIR, hosting Production, R&D and Sales ativities and currently exporting hundreds of nitrogen and oxygen generators every year to over 130 countries around the world.
Each customized system of this type is designed, manufactured and commissioned with the utmost care and in accordance with the various regulations in force in the country of destination as well as the most restrictive technical specifications imposed by the end customer, whose post-sales technical assistance is entrusted to the company's highly qualified staff.
The proposed and winning technical solution consists in the supply of a nitrogen and instrument air generator assembled on skids and supplied with lubricated screw air compressors with variable speed for an optimized energy consumption.
The entire package was designed, built, assembled and tested at NOVAIR NGS facilities in Italy. A team of CERN technicians traveled from Geneva to attend a serie of tests and trials, together with third-party inspectors appointed during the various steps of design and construction.
Photo of NOVAIR NGS technicians during the start-up at the CERN site in Switzerland
Photo of CERN technicians visiting Grosseto for testing
What is the nitrogen generator supplied by NOVAIR NGS for CERN for?
The CMS Experiment
The Compact Muon Solenoid, or CMS (http://cms.cern.ch) is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The CMS detector is designed to study particles produced in high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions to seek answers to fundamental questions such as why the world is the way it is, why some particles weigh more than others, and what constitutes dark matter in the Universe. The CMS detector is located at CERN Point 5, 100 m underground in the French village of Cessy near Geneva. The experiment is in operation and the data now collected by the CMS are being distributed to institutes around the world for analysis. The CMS collaboration involves 4300 particle physicists, engineers, technicians, students and support staff from 179 universities and institutes in 41 countries.
Statement by the General Manager of NOVAIR NGS – Mr. Federico Guidarelli
"The assignment of this project to our company for the second time is a historic result for the company that, thanks to the support of all its internal resources and NOVAIR group, has also managed in this case to beat the ruthless competition of multinationals with thousands of employees all over the world, demonstrating that the technology, reliability and performance of the products made in our factories in Grosseto are unmatched worldwide. Certain goals are not achieved by chance or luck but are the result of years and years of effort and sacrifice in making a product 'The reference product' worldwide!"
