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Evaporative cooling is gaining increasing attention as an energy-efficient alternative to conventional air conditioning. A new scientific study by an international team of researchers, including Anna Pacak,...
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High temperature heat pumps to increase energy efficiency of industrial processes
Summary of an article published in the International Journal of Refrigeration.
Cooling without electricity
The US Stanford University is currently testing an innovative cooling technology using radiative sky cooling.
Summaries from two papers of the IIR co-sponsored International Conference on Compressors
Reduction of refrigeration compressors noise was an important topic addressed during the IIR-co-sponsored International Conference on Compressors (ICCR) in Xi’an, China.
Carrefour pledges to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40% by 2025
Supermarket group Carrefour has pledged to reduce CO2 emissions from all stores by 40% by 2025 and by 70% by 2050 compared to 2010 levels.
Solar panels on car’s roof to power the air conditioning system
Audi recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US solar cells specialist Alta. They plan to work together to integrate photovoltaic cells into the panoramic glass roofs of Audi models.
Improving cooling towers' efficiency
An article published in Water Technology provides information on cooling towers and their operation.
Dielectric cooling for data centers
Until now, chips are mostly cooled thanks to air-cooling approaches: fans push air through heatsinks that sit on top of the chips to carry away excess heat. Liquid-cooling, which is more effective than air-cooling is more and more used....
A renewable energy storage project developed by Google
Google has a new public project: storing renewable energy thanks to heat pumps so it doesn't go to waste.
A French supermarket switches its refrigeration system to CO2 without closing the store
The French retailer Intermarché has replaced its R404A system with a transcritical CO2 system in a store in Montmagny, near Paris.
Urban cooling strategies
A report provides practical guidance to optimise development projects to moderate urban microclimates in major urban centres in Australia.
Gas leak detection technologies
Bacharach, a manufacturer of refrigerant and gas leak detectors, recently extended its gas detectors by two HFOs. The company also produces leak detectors for CO2 systems.
Keeping dairy cows cool
In the University of California, Davis, new technologies are currently tested to cool dairy cows.
“World’s largest” data centre to be built in Norway
A data centre in Ballangen, in Norway, will be entirely powered with renewable energy.
United Kingdom: evaporative cooling for Tesco superstores
Thanks to evaporative cooling, Tesco expects to lower the energy consumtpion in its supermarkets and to reduce significantly its maintenance costs.
Summary of two papers of the 9th International Conference on Compressors and Coolants (ICCC2017)
The IIR 9th International Conference on Compressors and Coolants (ICCC2017), which took place in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2017, addressed advances in compressors but also refrigerating technologies and alternative refrigerants, as...
Japan: Ice cream that doesn’t melt
In Japan, serendipity led to the creation of a type of ice cream that does not melt
French oysters go on sale in a vending machine
A French oyster farmer from Ré Island in France introduced a refrigerated vending machine that dispenses live oysters.
Cruise ships and liquefied natural gas
Driven by tougher international and environmental standards, LNG is more and more used as a transportation fuel in cruise ships.
Japan: update of the High Pressure Gas Safety Act
Since July 2017, revisions of this regulation expedite the adoption of alternative refrigerants with lower GWP.
How climate change will alter European electricity consumption
Summary of a German study showing how electricity consumption in Europe will fluctuate in the event of unmitigated climate change.
Use of thermostats in US domestic air conditioning systemps
In USA, only 12% of US 118 million households have a central air-conditioning unit that is actually controlled using a programmed thermostat.
MAC: industrialization of the first CO2 compressors
The automotive component manufacturer Sanden confirmed that it was supplying the German car manufacturer Daimler with CO2 compressors for their mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems.
Cryo-electron microscopy wins the 2017 chemistry Nobel Prize
On October 2017, Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Joachim Frank (USA) and Richard Henderson (UK) were awarded the chemistry Nobel Prize for cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM).
Foam blowing agents: use of R1233zd(E) is expanding
Honeywell announced that TCL, one of China’s largest appliance manufacturers, selected HFO1233zd(E) as foam blowing agent in its domestic refrigerators.
Contribution of the Montreal Protocol to declining greenhouse gases emissions from the United States
A study confirms the positive impact of the Montreal Protocol on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States.
