Congratulations to Shrikant Pattalwar

The George T. Mulholland Memorial Award for Excellence in Cryogenic Engineering is named in memory of George T. Mulholland, who served on the CSA Board as Secretary and was a Corporate Sustaining Member of CSA. The award is given for notable engineering development in a particular area leading to a major contribution in the cryogenic field.

​Shrikant Pattalwar is currently Senior Cryogenics Engineer and Project Leader in the Accelerator Science and Technology Centre at the UKRI-STFC Daresbury Laboratory. This award is given for his leadership of both the cryogenics and systems integration for the Daresbury Vertical Test Facility. This unique facility is the UK’s only horizontal dressed SRF cavity test stand. It is particularly notable for its novel configuration, of which Shrikant was the originator, whereby liquid helium consumption is reduced by more than 70% in comparison with conventional facilities. The facility has enabled 2 K qualification of the ESS high-beta cavities (a key part of the UK’s IKC to ESS), and is supporting the UK’s participation in PIP-II (HB650 ca​vity testing will begin later this year).