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IIR's 2024 activity report is now available

We are pleased to announce that the International Institute of Refrigeration's activity report for 2024 is now available. The report offers a comprehensive overview of our activities and achievements over the...

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  • Conference update: Boulder

    The 3rd Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Properties of Refrigerants is to take place in Boulder (CO) USA on June 23-26, 2009. Submit a paper and register:

    • Publication date : 2008/10/25
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  • Conference update: Boulder

    The 3rd Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Properties of Refrigerants is to take place in Boulder (CO), USA, on June 23-26, 2009. Submit a paper and register:

    • Publication date : 2009/02/24
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  • Conference update: Boulder

    The 3rd Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Properties of Refrigerants is to take place in Boulder (CO) USA on June 23-26, 2009. Submit a paper and register:

    • Publication date : 2009/05/18
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  • International events: Boulder

    The 3rd IIR Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Processes of Refrigerants was held on June 23-26, 2009 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. It was jointly organized with the 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties regularly held in...

    • Publication date : 2009/08/13
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  • Minutes of IIR Commission B1 Business Meeting in Boulder

    A Commission B1 business meeting took place in Boulder, Colorado, USA (June 24, 2009). It was chaired by Commission B1 President Dr Piotr Domanski. The minutes of the meeting are available

    • Publication date : 2010/06/07
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  • Supercooling and superchilling: A solution to increased shelf life and reduced food waste?

    If these technologies were combined with perfusion chilling for meat and fish, then additional benefits such as rapid cooling, low weight loss and novel products could result.

    • Publication date : 2015/10/27
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  • Member news: Koura introduces new refrigerant for air conditioning

    Refrigerant manufacturer Koura recently introduced R468C, a refrigerant that could replace R410A in air conditioning systems.  

    • Publication date : 2022/10/27
    • Subjects: HFCs alternatives
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  • Annual IIR statutory meetings

    The annual IIR statutory meetings took place between June 13 and 15, 2018 in Paris. They were held at La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, where the attendees could visit the international exhibition on refrigeration.

    • Publication date : 2018/06/22
    • Subjects: General information
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  • Now available: ICCC 2018 conference papers and proceedings

    Couldn't attend the 5th IIR Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain (ICCC 2018) in Beijing, China, last month? Download the conference proceedings and papers.

    • Publication date : 2018/05/18
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  • The IIR is seeking a Deputy Director

    The IIR is seeking for its head office in Paris a Deputy Director, with a scientific and technical background. The candidate should be a very good English and French speaker.

    • Publication date : 2013/03/05
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  • Calling all students! It’s time to send in your application to the Best student paper competition at ICR 2023

    If you are an undergraduate or graduate student and your paper has been accepted to the 2023 IIR Congress, apply and you could win a cash prize of €500 and complimentary registration to Congress. Apply by June...

    • Publication date : 2023/05/31
    • Subjects: General information
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  • The IIR launches the best student paper competition at ICR 2023

    Open to students up to Master’s level (plus one year) from engineering schools, universities or any other comparable higher education institution, the submitted work may focus on any technical area covered by...

    • Publication date : 2022/04/28
    • Subjects: General information
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  • Get ready! Send in your application to the Best student paper competition at ICR 2023

    Open to students up to Master’s level (plus one year) from engineering schools, universities or any other comparable higher education institution, the submitted work may focus on any technical area covered by...

    • Publication date : 2023/03/30
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  • IJR Editorial: Solar energy, the energy of the future for refrigeration

    Solar refrigeration should become a means of providing cleaner air conditioning and developing cold chains for food and health products where they are still deficient. We need to accompany this development while...

    • Publication date : 2021/01/21
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  • IIR Working Party on Refrigerant Charge Reduction in Refrigerating Systems: Join Us!

    Suitable design of refrigerating systems has several benefits in terms of limitation of the environmental impact thanks to a reduction in the energy consumption and the limitation of refrigerant emissions. The direct greenhouse effect accounts for...

    • Publication date : 2008/10/25
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  • ICR2007

    Several types of IIR medals and awards will be given out at the 22nd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration to be held in Beijing, China, on August 21-26, 2007. If you are aware of an outstanding person who could be honoured, check out

    • Publication date : 2005/06/14
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  • International events: ECSLA

    The General Assembly of ECSLA (European Cold Store and Logistics Association) took place on June 17, 2008 and enabled a debate with the European Commission on the phase-out of HCFCs, which could be implemented earlier than previously decided, to...

    • Publication date : 2008/08/12
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  • New IIR publication

    The CD-ROM proceedings of Ammonia Refrigerating Systems, Renewal and Improvement, an IIR conference held in Ohrid, Macedonia (FYROM), on May 6-8, 2005, comprise 29 papers spanning a wide range of ammonia applications. Key topics: past, present and...

    • Publication date : 2005/07/19
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  • IIR committee meetings in Beijing

    The Management Committee of the IIR met in Beijing on March 25, 2006. Two other meetings took place the same week: the Publications Sub-Committee (PSC) meeting and the meeting of the representatives of the Science and Technology Council to the...

    • Publication date : 2006/05/05
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  • Brief: IOR's Anniversary

    Over 900 persons attended the UK Institute of Refrigeration (IOR)'s 106th Anniversary Dinner which was held on February 8, 2006 at Grosvenour House Hotel, London, appropriately in the ballroom, a former ice skating rink. In his speech, the...

    • Publication date : 2006/05/05
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  • Conference update: Des Moines

    During the conference the Working Party on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature of the International Institute of Refrigeration held one of its periodical meetings. All conference members were invited to participate and they where...

    • Publication date : 2009/06/24
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  • IIR Working Parties

    The IIR has 10 commissions: Cryophysics, cryoegineering (A1); Liquefaction and separation of gases (A2); Thermodynamics and transfer processes(B1); Refrigerating equipment (B2); Cryobiology, cryomedicine (C1); Food science and engineering (C2);...

    • Publication date : 2009/12/09
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  • UN Climate Change Conference in Bali

    - The 13th United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, which was also the 3rd meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, took place in Bali, Indonesia, on December 3-14, 2007. More than 10 000 persons attended this event which...

    • Publication date : 2008/02/15
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  • Editorial by Mrs. Sylvie Lemmet

    The refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) industry is remarkable for its contribution to sustainable development and indeed to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Preservation of perishable food and medicines has resulted in...

    • Publication date : 2007/08/05
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  • The 27th IIR Informatory Note on evaporative cooling.

    This 27th IIR Informatory Note provides a state of the art of the simple and practical technology that is Evaporative Cooling.

    • Publication date : 2015/02/04
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