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EPTA has designed a transcritical CO₂ refrigeration system that is said to offer energy savings in all climates, along with lower installation and maintenance costs.

The integrated solution is designed to provide affordable cooling for small businesses.

The ROXSTAcube integral concept provides cooling, heating and air-conditioning for small retail stores.

Against a background of a global HFC phase down, this year’s European Conference on the latest refrigeration and air conditioning technologies takes on greater significance.

Danfoss has added four new Turbocor compressors for use with the HFO refrigerant R1234ze, and updated its existing TG310 model.

Danish system supplier Advansor launched a new CO₂ mini-booster refrigeration system at EuroShop 2017 this week.

With the launch of its new four-cylinder compressors for transcritical CO₂ at EuroShop, Bitzer puts its faith in CO₂ for supermarket applications.

Now available for free download is the latest ASHRAE/UN Environment fact sheet on new refrigerant designation and safety classification.

ASHRAE in partnership with other international organizations has announced that registration is open for the conference on Sustainable Management of Refrigeration Technologies in Marine and Off-Shore Fisheries Sectors, April 6-8, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The OEM will manufacture, market and install the ultra-low-charge packaged ammonia units for industrial facilities.

The patented solution, launched at EuroShop 2017, harnesses a liquid receiver to improve the efficiency of standard CO₂ booster systems.

More must be done to lift barriers to natural refrigerant uptake such as restrictive safety standards, the EIA’s Clare Perry told visitors to the EuroShop tradeshow yesterday.

The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) references and makes available in open access on its website, PhD theses dedicated to refrigeration.

Container shipping line Maersk has ordered 100 of Carrier Transicold’s refrigerated containers using “natural” refrigerant CO₂.

Over 40 papers on alternatives have already been submitted for presentation at the next CO₂ and Ammonia Refrigeration Technologies conference in Ohrid in May.

Since February 27 till March 2, 2017, a meeting of representatives of refrigeration associations of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Ukraine as well as working groups from Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan took place in Moscow. It resulted in establishing the Interstate technical committee which will help specialists in refrigeration solve their common problems.

Urging the industry to develop unique products to carve out a niche for India at the global level, the Environment Minister, Shri Anil Madhav Dave, has said that companies must invest a part of their income into research & development (R&D) and do some out-of-the-box thinking. “If money can be invested into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), money should also be invested into research to develop unique products that can be used in the future,” the Minister added. Shri Dave pointed out that India is by nature, a land of researchers and the likes of Aryabhatt and Ramanuj are sons of soil and in our blood. “The only thing we need to do is to create an atmosphere and pull out the resources”, he said.

As the regulatory landscape continues to shift around the commercial refrigeration industry, retailers and contractors are under increasing pressure to reduce — and even eliminate — refrigerant leaks. Do you know where in your facility leaks can occur and how you can use detection technologies more effectively? Join John Wallace from Emerson Climate Technologies as he discusses: what an effective leak detection program looks like and the benefits of putting such a program in place; an overview of the regulatory environment related to leak detection; and how to apply various leak detection technologies, including tips on interpreting results.

The low-lying atoll nation has become the first country to pass a law in parliament ratifying the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The Danish manufacturer is banking on ejector technology to help make a success of CO₂ transcritical systems in China’s warmer climate.