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Engineering internship: Climate impact modelling for global food cold chains
The IIR has developed an innovative model to calculate CO2 emissions for each stage of the cold chain and for all countries in the world. The candidate will work on improving this model based on updated data...
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New IIR publications: Guide to Refrigerated Transport
A completely revised version of the IIR Guide to Refrigerated Transport will be published late 2009. The purpose of this book prepared by Robert Heap and other IIR experts is to provide all necessary basic information on the transport of...
New IIR publications: Publications Catalogue 2009-2010
A new Publications Catalogue 2009-2010 has been published and will be disseminated during conferences and shows. You can also select and order books on line: www.iifiir.org
Obituary: Prof. A. H. C. van Paassen
Prof. A. H. C. van Paassen, Emeritus Professor in the section Energy Technology at the Faculty Design, Construction and Production of the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), died on June 30, 2009, at the age of 68. He taught courses...
Obituary: Prof. Dr Helmut Knapp
Prof. Dr Helmut Knapp, Honorary Member of the IIR and former President of IIR Commission A3 (Liquefaction and Separation of Gases) from 1979 to 1987, died at the age of 86. The IIR extends its sympathy to the families of Prof. van Paassen and...
New IIR members
The IIR welcomes the following new members: - Corporate members SB Alliance, Viroflay, France Soko Inzinjering, Krnjesevci, Serbia - Private members Mr Vincent Fargant, France Mr David Limb, Canada Mr Jianghong Wu, China - Junior...
News from IIR members: Alfa Laval
Alfa Laval is providing solutions for the fast-expanding CO2 market and has launched two new brazed heat exchanger models designed for transcritical CO2 systems for transport refrigeration, commercial refrigeration and heat-pump applications. The...
News from IIR members: Mega project for Technip
Shell Gas & Power Developments BV is joining forces with Technip and Samsung to design, build and install multiple floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities over a period of up to 15 years. Shell and Technip-Samsung also signed a...
News from IIR members: ACHPI
The Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Institute (ACHPI), was launched in the UK in September 2009. This new specialist group within the UK institute of Refrigeration (IOR) has been set up to assist all those who install, service or maintain...
News from IIR members: ARTI
ARTI, the research arm of AHRI (the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute), has contracted with a consulting firm in order to review the regulatory barriers and issues concerning low-GWP refrigerants including CO2, ammonia and...
Editorial by Didier Coulomb
Since 2007, the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) has conducted strategic discussions on its missions and services. This process began internally then took on board the outcomes of two surveys conducted at the beginning of this year...
International events: Des Moines
The 3rd IIR International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature (THERMAG III) was held in Des Moines, Iowa, USA on May 11-15, 2009. The conference had three major themes: magnetocaloric materials (40% of papers), theory and...
International events: Ohrid
The 3rd IIR event in a series, Ammonia Refrigeration Technology, was held on May 7-9, 2009, in Ohrid, Macedonia. With 95 participants from 24 countries and 32 papers presented, the event was very successful. A key focus of these conferences is...
International events: Karlsruhe
The 8th IIR Conference on Phase-change Materials (PCMs) and Slurries took place in Karlsruhe, Germany, on June 3-5, 2009 and brought together 58 participants. It provided overviews of phase-change materials (PCMs) and slurries along with their...
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...
International events: Taipei
ACRA 2009 (4th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning) was held in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 20-22, 2009. With 198 attendees from 10 countries and 135 papers presented, this fourth edition confirmed the ongoing success of this series...
International events: Amsterdam
The 53rd REHVA General Assembly took place on May 14-16, 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. D. Coulomb and R Lazzarin attended it. Ways to strengthen our links, particularly regarding co-sponsorship of conferences (eg. 47th AICARR International...
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The European Central Asia network of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) held its 7th annual meeting in Yerevan, Armenia. For the first time, national associations of refrigeration and AREA were invited. Didier Coulomb attended the...
International events: Milan
The 13th European Conference on the latest technologies in refrigeration and air conditioning took place on June 12-13, 2009 in Milan, Italy. This bilingual (English-Italian) conference was organized by Centro Studi Galileo with the participation...
Conference update: Casta Papiernicka
For an update on the state of the art in the compressors field, register for the 7th International Conference on Compressors and Coolants - Compressors 2009 to be held in Casta Papiernicka, Slovak Republic, on September 30-October 2, 2009:
Conference update: Rome
The IIR-co-sponsored 47th AICARR International Conference will be held in Rome on October 8-9, 2009. REHVA and ASHRAE are also-co-sponsoring this event. For full details:
Conference update: Dinan
Pôle Cristal Symposium will be held in Dinan, France on Octber 8-9, 2009. For full details: http://www.pole-cristal.tm.fr,
Conference update: Cambridge
The 1st IIR Conference on Sustainability and the Cold Chain will take place on March 29-31, 2010 in Cambridge, UK. Present a paper, check out pre-registration and keep updated on themes and short courses:
Conference update: Sydney
Don't miss the 9th IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Working Fluids (GL2010) to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 12-14, 2010. Present a paper and check out the preliminary programme:
Conference update: Antalya
The deadline for papers for Clima 2010, an IIR-co-sponsored conference to take place in Antalya, Turkey, on May 9-12, 2010, has been extended to September 30, 2009. Find out more:
New IIR Informatory Note
The IIR has issued a new Informatory Note, The Role of Refrigeration in Worldwide Nutrition, prepared by Jean-Luc Dupont and reviewed by Silvia Estrada-Flores, David Tanner, Don Cleland, Gerald Cavalier and Robert Heap. It presents an overview of...
