Europe
SWEP products meet heat pump demands
October 21, 2016 SWEP meets the growing global demand for increased energy efficiency by offering ultra-compact formats for the light commercial and residential heat pump market: the brazed plate heat...
'Best of Category' Award for CO2-efficient Fan
19 October 2016 On October 18, 2016, the winners of the MATERIALICA Design + Technology Award were honored during an awards ceremony in Munich. ebm-papst was very pleased to have received two awards....
Start-up to strengthen digital innovation at Danfoss
20 October 2016 Danfoss Digital Innovation Center in BerlinIn cooperation with entrepreneurs and through a global network of digital and industry expertise, Danfoss will develop and test new digital ...
Mansfield Pollard sponsors student to go to Mexico
20 October 2016Air management expert Mansfield Pollard has strengthened its relationship with Skipton Girls’ High School by sponsoring one of its promising students to attend the International Scien...
Luigi Nalini at the 16th Air-conditioning Day
20/10/2016 Luigi Nalini, CAREL founder and CEO, has been invited to take part in the 16th Air-conditioning Day, organised by the Portuguese Association of Engineers. The event, to be held on 20 Octo...
HFCs flood Europe despite phase down
October 19, 2016 EUROPE: Refrigerant manufacturer Honeywell has repeated claims that European HFC imports are increasing despite the F-gas phase down. Earlier this year, Honeywell claimed that ...
Highly Successful Second Edition of SIFA in Nantes
The second edition of SIFA took place in Nantes, France, from September 14 to 15. It followed the first edition held in Paris from October 13 to 15, 2015. The show is the fruit of a merger between the...
Need for Humidity Control
The drive to reduce energy demand in buildings has led to increased levels of air tightness in new construction and the retrofit of sealing devices in existing buildings. The consequence has been poor air quality which in turn has increased demand for mechanical ventilation. In winter, such systems create a low humidity environment (typically 20% relative humidity or RH) because of the low moistur...
Building Whisperer
Detlef Malinowsky styles himself a ‘building whisperer’, an allusion to the Hollywood film ‘The Horse Whisperer’ which featured a facility which some people have of being able to discern what is wrong with something (in the film’s case an errant horse) without making contact. Mr. Malinowsky’s gift is reading problems in air conditioning and ventilation systems by just experiencing the envir...
Future of Data Center Cooling
Emerson Network Power in Munich (Germany) reports on the findings of an opinion survey on the state of data center cooling by 2025. Currently around one third of total power demand goes into mechanica...
Refrigerants after 2018
The phase-down program for hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) will make a dramatic impact in 2018 when it is estimated that a quarter of the market demand in the United Kingdom will need be met from reclaimed refrigerants. The problem will be availability. Reprocessing such fluids means separating different components in the mix sent for recovery which may contain already banned refrigerants such as R22. &...
Too Many Refrigerants?
Bitzer’s latest Refrigerant Report lists and analyzes the properties of around 40 fluids currently on offer to the industry. The new EN378 standards are likely to add many more in the A2L flammability...
