Industry

Over 900 technical presentations will be presented at the forthcoming IIR International Congress of Refrigeration in Montreal.

Over 50 papers have been submitted for the next CO₂ and Ammonia Refrigeration Technologies conference taking place in Ohrid, Macedonia, in April.

Carel has introduced a speed drive for DC compressors with integrated and certified compressor protection.

Bacharach’s new MGS-400 gas detectors monitors for leaks of numerous refrigerants including HFCs, HFOs, HCFCs, CO₂, and NH₃.

A new design of compressor using refrigerant R1234ze could provide a long-term, low GWP solution for packaged air conditioning and VRF.

Two Bitzer ammonia compressor packs (ACP) with a combined cooling capacity of 1.4MW are supplying the refrigeration for a new pizza production plant in the North of England.

The company developing innovative spool compressors have produced two new models using the low GWP HFO refrigerant R1234ze.

The EU’s F-gas phase-down remained on track in 2017, according to the latest annual update published by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

As an extension of the study published in 2014, AFCE publishes here the final report of this independent study launched end of 2017 entitled energy efficiency of possible alternatives . The study has been carried out by experts from EREIE – CEMAFROID and CITEPA.

A semi-hermetic compact screw compressor for ammonia will be a highlight of GEA’s presentation at Chillventa next week.

Energy savings, innovative technologies for warm-ambient countries and heat recovery will help to grow the market for natural refrigerants in Spain, according to participants in the 2018 edition of Tecnofrío, Spain’s leading HVAC&R congress.

Indicating the growing number of innovative cooling solutions using natural refrigerants, the “first fully solar-powered, off-the-grid ice block machine using R290 refrigerant” debuted this morning on day two of the Refrigeration & HVAC Indonesia 2018 Expo, currently taking place in Jakarta, Indonesia from 26-28 September.

The Ammonia Refrigeration Foundation (ARF) is supporting the passage of U.S. legislation that would provide tax credits for donations to worker training, development and apprenticeship programs.

Honeywell has announced the commercial availability of R452B, the lower GWP “mildly flammable” refrigerant alternative to R410A.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute claim to have developed a viable propane heat pump using low volume heat exchangers and a special compressor.

Having designed and installed the first NH₃/CO₂ cascade refrigeration systems in the Phiippines, Omnico Engineering Ltd. foresees growing demand for natural refrigerant-based HVAC&R equipment there. This website spoke to Omnico Engineering Managing Director Bjarne Waldstrom about these first installations ahead of the ATMOsphere Asia conference on natural refrigerants, to be held in Singapore next month.

Denmark-based HB Products has recently developed a new ‘zero super-heat control’ vapor quality sensor for CO₂ systems, named HBX-CO2-CU-XX.

Viking Cold Solutions, a Houston, Texas-based thermal energy storage (TES) systems manufacturer, reported in a study last week that it was able to reduce both peak energy consumption and peak demand at a California frozen food distribution center by installing one of its systems in the facility’s 93,000-sq-ft low-temperature freezer.

At the beginning of 2018, large Indonesian pharmaceutical company PT Phapros installed and commissioned two propane (R290) chillers, replacing two existing R134a units at its production facility in Semarang, Central Java.

In a new study of the geothermal heat pumps, systems using ammonia (R717) or n-butane (R600) were found to be more efficient than those employing R22 or R134, as well as more economical.