Italy-based CO2 system supplier SCM Frigo has announced it will install a CO2 transcritical system in a METRO Wholesale store in Beijing, China, by the end of this year. The system will be the first in China for both METRO AG and SCM Frigo.
Germany company Eberspaecher Suetrak will be presenting its system using CO2 refrigerant for bus air-conditioning systems.
The Japan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry Association (JRAIA) revealed their five-year push for CO2 deregulation in a sign of growing adoption of CO2 in the Japanese market.
Henningsen Cold Storage Company, a family-owned cold storage firm, has opened its second low-charge ammonia facility in Salem, Oregon.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforces regulations passed by Congress, such as the Clean Air Act, that was passed in 1963 and has been regularly amended.
In a Refrigerant Week webinar, the component manufacturer said natural refrigerants are where regulation is leading the market, despite recent uncertainties with EPA’s SNAP program.
On 4 August, the European Commission decided to maintain a ban on HFCs in multipack centralised commercial refrigeration as originally adopted in the 2014 European F-Gas Regulation.
From 17-18 September, at the Crystal Palace Hotel in Tianjin, China, the International Symposium on Natural Working Fluid CO2 Refrigeration and Heat Pump Technology will be held to discuss how to enhance the market competitiveness of CO2 in China.
The European directive on mobile air-conditioning (MAC) entered into force in 2006. It introduces a gradual ban on greenhouse gases in passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. Since January 1, 2011, new vehicles’ air conditioning systems must be filled with a refrigerant with a lower GWP. R134a has been banned totally since January 2017. All cars must be equipped with a system with a GWP below 150.
The F-gas ban on refrigerants with a GWP of 150 or more in multipack centralised refrigeration systems from 2022 will not need to be amended, the European Commission has decided.
Rhoss is the latest chiller manufacturer to offer low GWP refrigerant R1234ze in a new range of oil-free centrifugal chillers.
The Garden City Ammonia Program (GCAP), one of the leading technical schools for industrial ammonia training in North America, believes demand for cascade systems is increasing in the U.S.
America’s Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) says an appeal against last week’s court decision overturning EPA restrictions on HFCs is “very likely”.
As early as January 2019, all of the developed countries that ratify the Kigali amendment will have lowered their average HFC consumption by 10% (compared to 2011-2013 levels). The government of New Zealand is therefore currently considering how to implement this phase down.
F-gas certification body Refcom has produced a technical bulletin about lower flammability refrigerants in response to the HFC phasedown.
The updated version of Germany’s refrigeration and air conditioning directive, which entered into force on January 1, 2017, will extend the scope related to the subsidising of refrigeration and air conditioning systems based on “non-halogenated and low-GWP refrigerants”. This amended directive extends funding to partial retrofits in addition to new system installations and full retrofits or replacements. Applicants can be awarded a maximum of EUR 150,000 per installation.
Honeywell has announced that TCL, one of China’s largest appliance manufacturers, is using the new low GWP insulation propellant HFO1233zd in its domestic refrigerators.
The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is pushing for a ban on the new low GWP refrigerant R1233zd under a review of the European ODS Regulation.
Aldi is to convert all its UK stores to use CO2 refrigeration, the German discount supermarket chain has announced.
Emerson has launched fractional horsepower low-temperature Copeland Scroll compressors with liquid-injection for use with a number of lower GWP refrigerants.