Transport

Two of the leading marine insurance companies have joined forces to warn of the potentially lethal risks of refrigerant leaks on fishing vessels.

Dearman has begun on-vehicle testing of a second generation liquid nitrogen transport refrigeration engine.

The European Commission is to refer Germany to the Court of Justice of the EU for its failure to apply the MAC Directive.

Daikin says its acquisition of Solvay’s European refrigerants business will boost sales to €230m by 2018.The deal reported to be worth around €22m gives the Japanese company, best known in the West as an air conditioning manufacturer, its first refrigerant manufacturing base in Europe.

A leading maritime equipment supplier has warned that the shipping industry is ill-prepared for the new F-gas regulations.

A petition calling for a ban on the use of “dangerous substance” R1234yf in vehicle air conditioning systems has been rejected by the European parliament.

The EU is turning its energy spotlight on European airports in a bid to reduce their HVAC energy needs and carbon emissions.

Refrigerant manufacturer DuPont expects to see the low GWP R1234yf replacement in 7 million car air conditioning systems by the end of next year.

By January 1, 2017 all new car models Acs must be charged with a low GWP refrigerant. The main contenders in this category at the moment are working substances CO₂ and R1234yf.

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany made a statement about the continued development of transport air-conditioning systems based on the natural refrigerant CO₂ instead of using doubtful  alternative R1234yf.

DuPont is trialling a new lower GWP refrigerant blend as possible “drop-in” replacement for R404A in transport refrigeration systems.