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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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Chile's energy outlook
Summary of an article published in the Santiago Times in January 2018.
Flammable ice: the answer to Japan’s energy drought?
Flammable ice (or methane hydrate) could represent an interesting alternative to fossil fuels in Japan, since vast amounts of methane hydrate can be found buried deep under the ocean around the country.
Argentina: training sessions for the transition to alternative refrigerants
The Centro Studi Galileo, located in Italia, announced that training sessions will start in Argentina in 2018.
World refrigerated warehousing market
A few figures on the global refrigerated warehousing market.
A British data centre is saving money thanks to thermal optimisation
A leading UK data and telecoms provider claims to have saved over £115,000 (€132,000) in cooling energy costs in a few months.
A new solution for transporting temperature-sensitive products
An innovative new solution for transporting temperature-sensitive products is now being offered at Vienna Airport.
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.
