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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: 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...
Giant fridge
In 1921, with demand for fresh food rising fast, Paris built a refrigerated railway station, the Gare Frigorifique de Paris-Ivry: "Le Frigo" was born. Entire trains entered the huge building which was in fact a huge refrigerator. Large cold stores...
ICR2007: CO2 in the limelight
Among the 876 papers presented at the IIR International Congress of Refrigeration in Beijing, 82 were on CO2 as a refrigerant or secondary fluid. Many dealt with new components for CO2, the lack of such components being currently still one of the...
Marine refrigeration
The use of natural refrigerants is gradually spreading. Here are two examples of their use in the marine sector: - Environmentally-friendly fish transport American Freedom is one of the world's largest refrigerated ships and can hold up to...
Hydrogen technology: Cryogenic Engine
A liquid oxygen-hydrogen pump fed engine achieved a major technical milestone in throttling capability. It is designed to demonstrate successful throttling from full power down to 10% of its thrust. This flexibility to control the flow of fuel...
Hydrogen technology: Global Observer
Demand for unmanned aerial vehicles is soaring and companies are racing to produce systems that fly higher for longer periods and can carry heavier payloads. AeroVironment Inc.'s Global Observer can fly at around 20 000 m for as long as a week and...
