Refrigerant
Whole Foods Adopt s Honeywell Technology to Reduce Carbon Fo
On April 19, 2021, Honeywell announced that global natural and organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market has adopted its Solstice N40 (R448A) lower global-warming-potential (GWP) refrigerant in its stores across the United States as it seeks to reduce refrigerant emissions under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) GreenChill program. Based on hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) t...
Climalife A2L Web Application Now Available
Climalife is aware that with the new mildly flammable (A2L) refrigerants, it is not always easy for refrigeration and air conditioning stakeholders to perform charge calculation. To facilitate such calculations, Climalife has launched its A2L charge calculator, which enables practitioners to calculate the authorized refrigerant charge according to standard EN378-1 in just a few clicks. In all, 36 ...
Skills gap threatens cooling sector’s safety and environment
May 28, 2021 A shortage of skilled technicians will make it increasingly difficult for the refrigeration and air conditioning sector to adopt new ‘alternative’ refrigerants, which are critical to achieving greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). The Association’s head of technical Graeme Fox told this week&rsq...
Johnson Controls Selects Opteon™ XL41 (R-454B) as Future Ref
May 27, 2021 Opteon™ XL41 becomes the Sustainable Refrigerant Option for the Company's Ducted Residential and Commercial HVAC Products and Air-Cooled Scroll Chillers WILMINGTON, De...
Johnson Controls Selects Environmentally Sustainable R-454B
· After evaluating several low Global Warming Potential (GWP) refrigerant alternatives on a variety of performance and market metrics, including safety, capacity efficiency, r...
Eurovent publishes feedback on preliminary findings of F-Gas
Scenarios modelled by study consultant not considered realistic Brussels, 26 May 2021. The European Commission and Öko-Recherche recently presented the preliminary findings of the F-Gas ...
EPEE provides detailed feedback on the modelling for the nex
25/05/2021 EPEE-Position-Paper-EU-F-Gas-Regulation-Review-Post-Stakeholder-Workshop-1Download EPEE, representing the heating and cooling industry in Europe, has been a long-time supporter of...
Alfa Laval publishes white paper on sustainable refrigerants
2021-05-26 A massive change is taking place in heating and cooling technology, with environmental and regulatory pressures driving a transition from traditional F-gas refrigerants to alternatives wit...
World’s Largest Fluorophore Chemical Engineering Base in Inn
On March 23, the signing ceremony for a fluorite resources joint venture (JV) cooperation project was held at Bao Tou, Inner Mongolia by Bao Gang United Steel, China Kings Resources, LongDa Foodstuff ...
Dorin’s Firing on All Cylinders, with Natural Refrigerant
Dorin has believed and invested in, and has developed ‘natural’ solutions since the 1990s, and for 2021 has decided to further consolidate its position by improving its line of natural gas...
Honeywell Solstice N41 Receives Inert Gas Registration from
On April 7, 2021, Honeywell announced that its Solstice N41 (R466A) low-global-warming-potential (GWP) refrigerant was recognized by the Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (JSRAE) as a ‘new inert refrigerant’. Solstice N41 is the HVAC industry’s first non-flammable R410A replacement refrigerant for stationary air conditioning applications. Completion of...
Chemours to Supply Lower GWP Refrigerant to Three Ice Rink V
OpteonTM XP40 use in these three venues enables ~65% reduction in GWP compared to previous ice games BEIJING, May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chemours Company has achieved a Memorandum of Un...
