Industrial refrigeration

Munters has launched a new energy efficient data centre dry cooling solution using indirect thermosyphon technology.

Bitzer has announced details of a new high efficiency scroll compressor for air conditioning and heat pump applications.

Carrier’s new AquaForce 30XB and 30XBP chillers update its well-established 30XA range with the latest technologies and increased efficiencies.

German compressor manufacturer Bitzer has acquired the shell-and-tube heat exchanger segment of Alfa Laval SpA based in Alonte, Northern Italy.

A French wholesale fruit distributor is using Honeywell’s “mildly flammable” A2L refrigerant Solstice L40X in a new state-of-the-art storage warehouse.

Refcom’s refrigerant-tracking software is now accessible via a mobile app, ensuring F-gas compliance on the go.

On 16 March, the council of ministers of the Italian government on the initiative of the Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and the Minister of Environment Gian Luca Galletti, approved a much-awaited preliminary measure to implement the EU F-Gas regulation in Italy (No. 517/2014).

The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) is seeking nominations for its quadrennial scientific prizes, which includes the €8,000 Gustav Lorentzen Medal.

Engie Refrigeration has supplied what it claims is the world’s largest chiller installation using the low GWP HFO refrigerant R1234ze.

Vilter Manufacturing unveiled the Modular Rooftop Unit (MRU), the company’s first ammonia/CO₂ packaged system for industrial applications, at the IIAR 2018 Natural Refrigeration Conference & Expo this week.

Colmac Coil Manufacturing, based in Colville, Wash., has installed, since 2014, 47 Advanced Direct Expansion (ADX) systems using a reduced ammonia charge around the world, with 36 more to come this year, said its marketing department manager, Patty Smith, at the IIAR 2018 Natural Refrigeration Conference & Expo on Monday.

Eurammon explores the advantages and challenges of low charge ammonia systems.

At Mostra Convegno Expocomfort, which began yesterday in Milan, Italy Italian component manufacture Refrigera Industriale launched three ammonia valves.

On 1 Feburary 2018, Australian industrial refrigeration system supplier Scantec Refrigeration Technologies commissioned its largest low-charge ammonia (NH3) system in the country.

Bitzer is to introduce a new compact screw compressor designed for use in air-cooled liquid chillers with a range of alternative refrigerants at next week’s Mostra Convegno exhibition in Milan.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has introduced a commercial heat pump using the little-known lower GWP refrigerant R454C.

A varied programme of talks is promised at the next Hampshire Refrigeration Society Technical Breakfast Briefing.

Viessmann’s ESyCool Green propane-based heat pump refrigeration system has been awarded the government-backed German Innovation Prize for Climate and Environment.

Emerson has launched 35 and 40 HP semi-hermetic reciprocating Copeland CO₂ compressors, with the 50 HP version slated for late fall.

Colmac Coil Manufacturing, Colville, Wash., has introduced a Shell and Helix heat exchanger designed for ammonia/CO₂ cascade refrigeration systems.