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How should fluorocarbon refrigerants be evaluated opposite the global climate change issue?

Author(s) : VOGELSBERG F. A. Jr

Summary

A full range of parameters, including energy efficiency, should be used in selecting or rejecting a refrigerant fluid. How a specific fluid contributes to potential climate change can be evaluated by using a tool developed by Oak Ridge, the TEWI, or Total Equivalent Warming Impact, a measure of direct (fluorocarbon) and indirect (energy related CO2 released) emissions over the full lifetime cycle of a device or product containing or using a global warming fluid (a fluorocarbon, for example). Details are provided on likely volumes of fluorocarbons used in the next decades and their relative contribution to the global emissions of anthropogenetic radiative forcing (global warming) gases.

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  • Original title: How should fluorocarbon refrigerants be evaluated opposite the global climate change issue?
  • Record ID : 1996-1229
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Figures, economy, Regulation
  • Source: 1995 AIRAH Conference Proceedings.
  • Publication date: 1995/05/01
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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