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Ozone-depleting chemicals detected by scientists in the atmosphere in 1951 – decades earlier than expected
An international team led by the University of Bremen, Germany, has uncovered evidence of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere as early as 1951. This finding pushes back the known...
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Briefs: World's largest food park
Early 2010, the world's largest food park opened 20 km from Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. The 95-acre Patanjali Food and Herbal Park is to provide direct employment for 7000 people. The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) plans to set...
Briefs: CSA
The Cryogenic Society of America has created and recently launched its Cryogenic Treatment Database: www.cryogenicsociety.org/ctd_relaunched The site provides...
Briefs: Cemafroid
Cemafroid, a French refrigerated vehicle testing and certification organization with sites in Antony, Cestas and Lyons, celebrated its 10th anniversary on June 3-4, 2010 at its Antony site. The birthday celebration took the form of a conference...
Briefs: KRAIA
Following the retirement of Wan-Keun Lee, former Chairman of Shinsung Holdings, as Chairman of the Korea Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Industry Association (KRAIA), Hwan-Yong Nho was appointed KRAIA Chairman on May 31, 2010....
Briefs: AIRAH
Sean Treweek has been appointed President of the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating (AIRAH), replacing John Bosci.
Briefs: Lifesaving pocket refrigerator
During the severe heatwave in Europe in 2003, Uwe Diegel realized that his brother was encountering problems keeping his insulin refrigerated while travelling. So the inventor decided to invent a pocket refrigerator based on the Peltier effect...
Out of the ordinary: Dreamlands exhibition
One of the exhibits at the Dreamlands exhibition currently showing at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is Kader Attia's skyscrapers. The shimmering skyscrapers are in fact exquisitely decorated refrigerators. It's all done with mirrors… and...
Solar cooling: Perspectives in Australia
A paper by P. Kohlenbach and M. Dennis1 presented at the 9th IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants in Sydney gave an outlook and future perspectives on solar cooling in Australia, focusing on a comparison between the current...
Solar cooling: Developing countries
In order to help Jean-Louis Julliard, a French producer, market local-fish precooked meals in Mali, Lionel Bataille improved existing solar-cooling technology developed by a CNRS laboratory in Perpignan, France. The cooling system used a...
Solar cooling: Low-cost solar vaccine refrigerator
About 2 million people around the world die each year of diseases preventable by widely used vaccines. In Africa and parts of Asia, over half of all vaccines that require refrigeration spoil before they can be administered. Millions of lives and...
Green buildings: Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China
Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China is on, and is expected to draw 70 million visitors. With a theme of "Better City, Better Life", it aims to explore the full potential of urban life in the 21st century and how to create an eco-friendly society....
Green Buildings: Frozen smoke
Following the meeting of the IIR's Science and Technology Council (STC) on June 10, 2010, Prof. Renato Lazzarin, University of Padua in Vicenza, Italy, AICARR President, President of Commission E1 (Air conditioning) of the STC gave a lecture...
Briefs: Cryogenic treatment of heart diseases
Russia has made its first steps in the cryogenic treatment of heart arrhythmia. A new method was recently implemented by specialists at the V. A. Almazov Federal Heart, Blood and Endocrinology Centre in St. Petersburg. Cryotechnology is used for...
Briefs: Sustainable fishery in Namibia
Since November 2009, Hangana Seafood has a new pre-sorting facility in Walvis Bay harbour, Namibia, which uses ammonia as a refrigerant. The 2800 m² sorting facility has a 0°C chill room for holding unsorted fish, two 16°C temperature-controlled...
Briefs: CO2 heat pumps for train AC
A paper presented at the 9th Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants by A. Haffner, O. Christensen and P. Nekså1 envisaged the opportunity to use R744 (CO2) as a refrigerant in air-conditioning (AC) systems in trains. They claimed that...
China
- After having closed down all its production plants for CFCs well ahead of the schedule of the Montreal Protocol, China - which is the world's largest producer of ozone depleting substances (ODS) - including HCFCs - enacted on June 1, 2010, the...
United States
The US EPA has published a long-awaited proposed rule allowing the use of certain hydrocarbons in new household refrigerator and freezer equipment. Hydrocarbon refrigerants have now been used for over 10 years in countries such as Germany, the UK,...
France
The French decree of November 19, 2009 relative to general prescriptions applicable to classified installations declared under paragraph number 1136 (use and storage of ammonia) replaces the previous decree of February 23, 1998, which was...
European cold Store benchmarking study
The European division of the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA) is carrying out a benchmarking study for the European public refrigerated warehouse industry, focusing on facility and equipment data such as capacity, order picking, handling...
Thermo King’s Magnum container reefers
Thermo King's Magnum container reefers have been chosen by Hanjin Shipping based in South Korea. Hanjin has 12 dedicated terminals in Rotterdam, Long Beach, Tokyo, Kaohsiung, and Busan, among others, 7 inland logistic bases in locations such as...
Natural refrigerants in developing countries
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) is helping developing countries accelerate the phase-out of ozone-depleting refrigerants. It recently published a report comprising over 30 articles from government, industry and academia, and...
Green Buildings: King Abdullah University
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, has been selected as one of the 2010 "Top Ten Green Projects" by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE). The annual...
A promising future for electric field refrigeration
A team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University, supported by the US Department of Energy and led by Qiming Zhang are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric polymers which could allow for compressor-free...
A bill aimed to reform for the first time since 1976 the US Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was introduced in the USA on April 15, 2010. The new legislation will require manufacturers to prove the safety of every chemical - including...
Figures: EU electricity consumption
A report issued by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) shows that energy efficiency measures - such as labelling and minimum energy efficiency standards -together with national policies and incentives are contributing to...
