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Natural refrigerants drove the global commercial refrigeration market in 2023
According to JARN, natural refrigerants in commercial equipment are gaining popularity, namely driving the demand for equipment renewal in Europe.
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Assessing indoor air quality: Air cleaners
The quality of indoor air and how to assess it are increasingly raising concern, whether this is related to the efficiency of air-conditioning systems or of air cleaners. Air-cleaner market is doing fine. According to the Environmental Protection...
Capturing CO2 thanks to refrigeration
Intensive research into capturing the CO2 created in fossil-fuel-based electricity production has been carried out for several years by Alstom. One of the technologies used is post-combustion separation using a solvent (amine or chilled ammonia)....
A Refrigerated Noah’s ark
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen, which has officially opened on February 26, 2008, is designed to be a fail-safe repository for the world's food crops. It has the capacity to store up to 4.5 million seed samples...
Unassuming energy saving device
The eCube energy saving device is designed to reduce energy consumption by at least 25%. It takes into account product temperatures instead of fluctuating air temperatures in refrigerators, freezes, chillers, coolers, dispensers and cold rooms. It...
Briefs: First transcritical CO2 supermarket system in Australia
CO2 is raising interest in the retail industry in warm counties. Last November, a 1-day seminar organised by the Natural Refrigerants Transition Board (NRTB) focusing on the technical challenges related to transcritical CO2 systems, featured a...
Briefs: Largest distribution centre in Africa
The centre, built by Woolworths in Midrand, South Africa has a surface area of 72 000 m². The 2-stage refrigeration system uses 4.2 tons of ammonia. It operates at -9°C/+32°C on the low stage while the high-stage ammonia circuit is used to chill...
Briefs: New recycling scheme for air-conditioning equipment
The WEE European directive, due to come into force within 2-3 years is already triggering responses from manufacturers. In this sense, Daikin is even going beyond the requirements of the directive for recycling electrical and electronic goods and...
Briefs: Green Olympics: Sanyo
Sanyo has developed a CO2 refrigeration cassette for Coca-Cola's drinks coolers to be used during the Beijing Olympics and will start supplying cassettes in March 2008. Salvatore Gabola, director of Coca-Cola's worldwide stakeholder relations,...
Briefs: M&S goes green
Marks & Spencer has just opened two new stores, one in Bournemouth and one in Galashields, UK. They will use up to 25% less energy and emit up to 95% less carbon dioxide than an average Simply Food store thanks to renewable energy. The stores...
Briefs: Energy-saving Maersk reefers
Thanks to QUEST (Quality and Energy efficiency in Storage and Transport) software providing a new temperature-control regime based on commodity instead of air temperature, Maersk estimates that the energy consumption used to cool its reefers will...
Chicago Spire skyscraper
The Chicago Spire skyscraper is to be built in Chicago, USA. The 7-sided tapering, twisting tower was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The 150-floor 278 709 m² building is being developed by Garrett Kelleher of Shelbourne...
Chill factorE
Chill factorE, the UK's longest and the world's widest indoor ski slope (180 m long and 100 m wide), also featuring a separate luge slope, has opened in Manchester. In the GBP 31 million facility, snow is produced at night: the air is lowered to...
Higher temperatures for frozen foods?
The British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) is trying to gather data in order to support slightly higher temperature levels for frozen foods. As of now, foods can only be considered as quick frozen if they are maintained at a temperature of -18°C....
New combined CO2 heat pump and solar heating system.
The Institut für Thermodynamik at the Technical University of Braunschweig (www.ift.tu-bs.de) has developed a new heating system based on a CO2 heat pump connected with a solar storage tank. A...
A market study on refrigeration and AC enterprises in Belgium.
A study performed in 2007, by the Royal Belgian Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Union, in renowned refrigeration and AC companies of various sizes reveals interesting facts. One of the most striking is that almost half of the turnover in the...
Refrigerating food uses the most energy
According to surveys conducted in Germany in 1999, by the Hanover-based FKW and the Dresden-based ILK, production, transport storage and distribution of food products required approximately 155 000 GWh annually in Germany. Refrigeration accounts...
Markets: Global AC expansion
AC shipments hid a record high of 70.6 million units in 2006. US growth was particularly marked: 9 million room air conditioners (RACs) were shipped, this being 11% more than in 2005. Japan shipped 7.5 million RACs (0.5% increase compared with...
Markets: Marked AC growth in Spain
Over the past 2 years, the AC industry has grown 25% in Spain. Growth is attributed to Spain's warm climate and a rising standard of living. In 2006, the turnover of the AC sector was 1600 million € (with 225 million € in exports) and that of the...
Figures: the cold chain in India
The Indian government is planning to provide financial assistance of up to 75% of the total investment for companies setting up cold chain facilities and is re-examining providing of infrastructure status to cold chain facilities, by making them...
Figures: the cold chain in Germany
According to the VDKL's latest survey on refrigerated and frozen storage capacities in Germany, in 2005 there were over 728 cold stores with a capacity over 2000 m3. Overall capacity amounted to 20 million m3. There are over 55 000 lorries and 43...
News from Korea
The Korean refrigeration and air-conditioning industry is the 4th largest in the world after the United States, China and Japan with USD 14.5 billion annual production in 2006, a figure equivalent to 10.7% of global production. The refrigeration...
HARFKO 2007
With over 21 000 visitors and 168 exhibitors from 24 countries, HARFKO 2007 was highly successful. During the exhibition, the first meeting of key Chinese, Japanese and Korean refrigeration and air-conditioning stakeholders was held. China...
Mobile air conditioning: DuPont & Honeywell
DuPont and Honeywell have entered into a global joint development designed to accelerate the development and commercialization of next-generation low global-warming refrigerants for mobile air conditioning. One aim is to develop a refrigerant that...
Mobile air conditioning: VDA
VDA officially opts for CO2 mobile air conditioning The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) recently confirmed that the German car industry has chosen the natural refrigerant CO2 (R-744) for future mobile air conditioning. VDA...
Cool groceries
If you're fed up waiting for your groceries to be delivered, here's what you need: a Shopbox. Featuring 3 compartments (ambient, chilled and frozen), Shopbox can hold up to a week's groceries and has a locking system. Developed by Archbold...
