Adam Cromarty 1935

Nationality:
British

Adam Cromarty worked as an electrical engineer at the ERA Foundation Ltd (also known as the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association). Cromarty specialised in rural electrification, and was based at Shinfield, Reading. Following his work at the ERA, he worked for the University of Reading. His research led to the invention of a dairy heat pump, or Dairy Exchanger Unit, used to turn the waste heat from cooling down milk into hot water for use in dairies. His scientific papers were published under the name A.S. Cromarty.

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File of 'raw' scientific data from Heat Recovery Units (HRUs) tested at Church Farm by staff at the National Institute for Research into Dairying. The data is recorded in notes, temperature and pressure charts, which include baseline information taken before the installation of HRUs and tests comparing an HRU Mark 6 with earlier machines, amongst the results of other experiments. The file includes some later notes added by researcher A.S. Cromarty.

Test results for a heat recovery system at Church Farm
Research material relating to the development of Dairy Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Units undertaken by the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, Berkshire, mainly dating to 1955-1965. The collection is comprised of correspondence, test data and data analysis, laboratory reports and photographs. Much of the material was annotated by former dairying engineering researcher A.S. Cromarty retrospectively.

Research Material relating to Dairy Heat Pumps
File containing sub-committee reports concerning work in progress on Shinfield projects, as well as Milk Marketing Board correspondence, dairy farmhouse articles and a paper written by Prof. C. N. Turner comparing American and British dairy farming. The material dates mainly from the 1960s and 1970s, with some later notes added by A.S. Cromarty.

Reports by Electrical Research Association Agricultural Sub-Committee
Typescript reports on research into dairy heat pumps carried out by A.S. Cromarty at Shinfield, the Electrical Research Association's agricultural field station.

Reports from Shinfield Progress
Draft and published scientific reports mainly written for the journal 'Shinfield Progress'. The series also includes a small amount of research data filed with the papers and a patent granted to researcher A.S. Cromarty.

Research reports on heating and cooling of agricultural products
Folder containing black and white as well as colour photographic prints, slides and negatives. The images mainly feature equipment used in experiments on the use of Heat Recovery Units in dairies carried out by A.S. Cromarty and colleagues. The file includes a colour photographic print of the Main Building at National Institute for Research in Dairying's Shinfield research facility. Some images are annotated. They have been packaged in bundles reflecting how they were organised by Cromarty.

Images of dairy heat pumps and heat recovery units
File of scientific working papers relating to early boiler house Heat Recovery Unit test results, with charts and thermocouple plots. The papers include notes, graphs, diagrams illustrating equipment and the experimental set-up, as well as the ERA log book for the Boiler Test House.

Papers relating to early heat recovery unit test results
File labelled 'Miscellaneous. Thermocouple Position for Test Work done by ERA' containing scientific working papers, including notes, charts, and drawings of equipment. Most of the material is original and dates to the early 1960s. Some photocopied documents, annotations and a photographic print date to c 2016.

Papers concerning thermocouple positions in heat pump tests
File originally labelled 'File - 'Mainly 3/4 hp DHP NIRD tests and performance'. The material consists of research notes, charts, reports dating from 1957-1963 and and a Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries report on Hall Milk Cooling Plant dating from 1931. The file includes later annotations by A.S. Cromarty.

Papers relating to dairy heat pump tests and performance
Press cuttings and other papers relating to an open day organised by the ERA Foundation to showcase research into dairy heat pumps at Shinfield, Reading.

Papers relating to Electrical Research Association open day
Folder containing copies of Patent 1 466 980 for 'Improvement to Fluid-Storage Heat-Exchangers Particularly for Heat Recovery from Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems' and research papers 'Combined Milk Cooling and Water Heating', 'Water Heating and Heat Energy Recovered from a Refrigerated Farm Tank' (2 copies with annotations). The file also includes ten pages of graphs and a typed data sheet for the 'Water Heating and Heat Energy' paper.

Published papers and associated material by A S Cromarty

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