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Researchers hope that ionocaloric cooling could someday help replace refrigerants with high global warming potential and provide safe, efficient cooling and heating for homes.

From 1 January 2023, the Australian Government will no longer charge fees to dispose of halon surrendered within Australia to the National Halon Bank.

The Green Cooling Initiative is currently organizing a series of trainings in Kenya with a focus on brazing for appliances using natural refrigerants such as R290. This will enable technicians in Kenya to improve their knowledge and experience of brazing and how to deal with the natural refrigerant R290, therefore leading to less direct emissions.

The Montreal Protocol came into force 34 years ago and has largely ended the release of ozone-depleting substances

EcoSeries is a new range of air-cooled chillers from Hecoclima employing the low GWP HFO refrigerant R1234ze.

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water engaged recognised independent testing facilities to bench test refrigeration and air conditioning equipment to find out how much additional power was used when common faults were applied to the equipment. The bench testing was to determine the benefits of regular equipment maintenance.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to amend existing regulations to implement certain provisions of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, as enacted on December 27, 2020.

Europe have the deep global energy crisis. Among the host of measures countries are taking in response to the crisis, heat pumps are one of the most important long-term solutions widely available today to reduce natural gas use for heating, improve energy security, keep consumers’ energy bills affordable, and make progress on reducing emissions.

All common higher GWP HFC refrigerants including R134a, R404A and R410A will be banned in most new refrigeration and air conditioning applications from 2025 under new US EPA proposals.

Ciat has now developed its Vectios rooftop air conditioning units to use the lower GWP A2L refrigerant R454B.

Trane has introduced new air-cooled Sintesis eXcellent GVAF and water-cooled XStream eXcellent GVWF chillers with magnetic-bearing compressors and low GWP refrigerant R1234ze.

For 16 years, Partners in EPA’s RAD program have leveraged best environmental practices to collect and dispose of old refrigerated appliances such as refrigerators and freezers, window air conditioners, and dehumidifiers.

Italian manufacturer Zudek’s air-cooled, low-charge ammonia/NH₃ (R717) chiller has improved the energy efficiency ratio (EER) of a cooling system at a pharmaceutical site in Belgium, by 20%, compared to its previous HFC-based unit.

Scientists at a German research organisation are looking to cool buildings using a “programmable” insulation foam that can change shape depending on the temperature.

After recent heavy investment in the expansion of their capacity in the US, A-Gas is completing the construction of its latest refrigerant separation towers at its Rhome, Texas plant, located outside of Dallas/Fort Worth. The expansion project, which began earlier this year, represents A-Gas’ continued commitment to delivering cutting-edge technology aimed at substantially increasing the quantity of reclaimed refrigerant gases, bringing new capacity online in 2023 to supply the US.

Supermarket refrigeration is one of the leading sources of super-polluting hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant (HFC) emissions. Together with North American Sustainable Refrigeration Council (NASRC), U.S. supermarkets are taking steps to characterize and proactively reduce refrigerant leaks over the lifespan of refrigeration systems.

Cambodia has recently announced its new National Cooling Action Plan, the first to be developed in South-East Asia.

A new whitepaper from Danfoss, the Danish family-controlled engineering group, titled ‘The neglected demand side of the green equation’, delves into the details of how energy efficiency is an enabler of electrification.

Tewis Smart Systems has developed ECO₂Smart, a patent-pending system that is said to improve the performance of its CO₂ equipment, guaranteeing lower energy consumption in extreme temperatures.

Panasonic has introduced the new CO₂ Service Checker for use with its CR Series of CO₂ refrigeration condensing units.