At a side session held during the 2022 AHR Expo in Las Vegas, Gill announced that Cooling Matters would be the day’s 2022 theme. “Our objective is to make the public aware of cooling’s essential benefits, how cooling impacts daily life, and how technology choices foster environmental well-being of future generations.” World Refrigeration Day is celebrated on and around June 26.
A COVID-19 vaccine storage warehouse, opened in Spain last year, selected a PowerCO2OL CO2 (R744) refrigeration rack from OEM Carrier Commercial Refrigeration for its cooling needs.
In the light of the worldwide phase-down of high GWP refrigerants, Dave Richards, UK head of sales at refrigerant supplier Climalife, looks at the various options available for HVAC chillers.
SIAD, an Italian provider of gases, has for the first time publicly presented its COOOL FreeToGo compressor-free refrigeration transport system, which uses liquid CO2 (R744) evaporation to generate cooling without the traditional vapor-compression cycle.
Cool Up, a six-year program that will run until January 2027, has chosen natural refrigerants as part of its effort to upgrade cooling systems in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.
German OEM TEKO has entered a new market with its CO2 (R744) cooling technology, introducing a unit called ROXSTAtrain for kitchens on trains, and other applications with very limited space.
Rhoss has announced the launch of three new air-cooled water chillers ranges with screw compressors using R513A or R134a refrigerant.
Daikin Applied is set to launch a new addition to its Bluevolution portfolio of R32 products – the R32 Small Inverter Chiller.
Italian OEM Epta announced the availability of a new version of its Eco2Large commercial transcritical CO2 rack that includes integration of its FTE (Full Transcritical Efficiency) 2.0 and ETE (Extreme Temperature Efficiency) technologies during a recent webinar on the Life-C4R – Carbon 4 Retail Refrigeration project.
Environmental test chamber manufacturer Weiss Technik has proven the long-term compatibility of Danfoss AKV expansion valves with its newly developed cryogenic refrigerant R469A.
The FläktGroup’s latest generation of 4-pipe HeaMo Air heat pumps is offered with lower GWP refrigerant R454B.
Daikin has extended its DWSC centrifugal chiller series with the addition of models using the low GWP refrigerant R1234ze.
While Europe continues with the HFC refrigerant phase down, new proposals to be put before the Commission could see further restrictions or even bans on HFCs and HFOs.
The installation of a low charge ammonia chiller system at a major UK food manufacturer’s storage facility is said to have led to a 77.3% reduction in energy consumption.
Star Refrigeration has boosted capacity and efficiency at a cheese chill plant by replacing an ageing R404A cooling system with its latest low-charge ammonia Azanechiller 2.0.
We’ve known for years that HFC refrigerants are on borrowed time, and that businesses involved in food production, distribution or retail will need to adopt new ways of working.
A further cut of 29% in the availability of HFC refrigerants in Europe next year will accentuate the importance of recovery and reclamation, says Climalife UK’s head of sales Dave Richards.
Air conditioning and refrigeration manufacturer Panasonic has announced details of a new series of online training sessions in the use of CO2.
Leading Italian air conditioning and refrigeration training company Centro Studi Galileo is extending its services internationally, hosting its first ever webinar in English.
Over 10,000 energy efficient and climate friendly domestic refrigerators and air conditioners will soon become widely available in Ghana to replace old existing equipment by 2022.