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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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New hydrocarbon-based refrigerant option for replacing R22
RED TEK® 22a, a hydrocarbon-based refrigerant from Thermofluid Technologies, is a blend of environmentally safe hydrocarbon fluids designed as a direct replacement and retrofit refrigerant option for replacing R22 refrigerants in commercial...
Eco-friendly cooling for Tokyo’s Haneda Airport
The new international terminal of Haneda Airport opened in October 2010. It uses a combination of geothermal energy, solar power and cogeneration systems to reduce energy consumption and is also the first airport to use sodium sulphur (NaS)...
Global air-conditioning market in 2010
Despite the debt crisis in the euro zone in early 2010, global air-conditioner demand still achieved significant expansion in 2010 due to strong growth in emerging economies, particularly China and India, and extremely hot summer weather in many...
Global 2010 compressor market overview
World rotary compressor production in 2010 increased substantially over 2009 to reach 112.5 million units. 80% of rotary compressors are produced in China. The leading manufacturers are Meizhi and Shanghai Hitachi. Rotary compressors have...
IIR conference report: Padua
Two IIR events organized by Prof. Renato Lazzarin have just been held in Padua, Italy: - Sources/Sinks alternative to the outside Air for Heat Pump and Air-Conditioning Techniques took place on April 5-7, 2011. Heat sources and heat sinks of...
Interested in a short course on Ice Slurry Technology?
The course will take place in Karlsruhe (Germany) on the 13th and 14th May 2011, and will be taught in English.
Out of the ordinary: Electrolux Bio Robot Refrigerator on biopolymer gel
Electrolux has finally unveiled its avant-garde Bio Robot Refrigerator concept within the context of its 2010 Electrolux Design Lab final. Designed by Yuriy Dmitriev, the refrigerator works on the principle of biopolymer, so there is no air that...
Out of the Ordinary: Ice Magic
Ice Magic in Paris is an ice sculpture exhibition. This year's theme was "Around the World". An insulated pavilion at a temperature of -6°C on the Champs-Elysées housed the temporary exhibition featuring the Coliseum, the Parthenon, the...
Out of the Ordinary: Pandas
Funi and Wang Wang, a couple of giant pandas, are star attractions at Adelaide Zoo in Australia. To keep them cool during South Australia's hot summers, chilled glass-reinforced rocks, air conditioning and waterfalls have been installed. The...
Compressors: Oil-free linear compressor
Linear technology could become the predominant energy-efficient refrigeration compressor design, according to Brazilian manufacturer Embraco which unveiled a domestic compressor offering linear technology with variable capacity, eliminating the...
Compressors: Electric MAC compressor
BMW's recently launched ActiveHybrid7 will benefit from Visteon Corporation's new lightweight electric compressor that meets the demands of hybrid and electric vehicles. Unlike traditional compressors which are belt-driven by the engine and can...
Integrated CO2-CHP system
Brunel - a UK University - and 14 industrial partners in the commercial refrigeration sector have presented an innovative integrated energy system which has been designed to meet the needs of medium and large supermarkets and can be tailored to...
Solar cooling: Plans for air-conditioned stadiums in Qatar
When Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 football World Cup in December 2010, it came as a surprise. One of the major causes of scepticism was the average summer temperatures of over 40°C with recent peaks at 50°C. But central to Qatar's bid was a...
Solar cooling: i-Cool Solar
Mitsubishi Chemical, ICL and Nippon Fruehauf have developed i-Cool Solar to air condition trucks. The system uses solar panels on the roof of the container. Mitsubishi Chemical claims that i-Cool Solar will reduce CO2 emissions per 10-ton nes...
Briefs: Electronic air conditioning
David Sattler, from Sattler Consulting, a Melbourne-based firm (Australia) was awarded an AUD 80000 federal government grant to further his work on a new type of air conditioner, allowing for large cooling effects (and a heating potential) with...
Briefs: LHC is thriving
In November 2009, CERN announced that the LHC was operating again, after the malfunction that led to a halt in September 2008. Experiments have since been performed at up to unprecedented levels of 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam). In early November 2010,...
Briefs: Largest climatic laboratory
The McKinley Climatic Laboratory, located in the US Air Force Eglin Base in Florida, USA, which began testing in 1947, is the largest climate testing facility in the world. The temperature inside the 77 x 61 x 21 m hangar, with a 4700 m² base...
Briefs: Antarctic ice cores travel to Colorado
Ice cores estimated at several million US dollars were successfully transported across the equator to a lab in south-west United States in 12-m refrigerated containers, conceptualized by the US Antarctic Program support staff and designed and...
Briefs: Environmentally friendly arena
The Marcel Dutil Arena in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce, Quebec, is now environmentally friendly and economic thanks to CO2 technology. The control technology can be modulated remotely. The electricity consumption has dropped 20-25% since the system was...
Briefs: English pears all year round
Tesco, a UK-based retailer, has announced the availability of English pears all year round. Until now, the autumn fruit, which some consider the best in the world, was only available from September-May. Tesco's biggest pear supplier, Adrian...
Briefs: Cool logistics
Carrier Transicold has launched NaturaLINE, a range of refrigerated-container technology using natural refrigerants claimed to be the first in the world. Working with Hapag-Lloyd, a Hamburg-based shipping company, Carrier has been testing the...
2010 ASHRAE Refrigerant Safety Standards
ASHRAE has published its 2010 editions of Refrigerant Safety Standards. In these editions, HFO-1234yf and 14 refrigerant blends have been added. An optional 2L flammability classification subclass has been added to the existing Class 2 category,...
Cool eggs
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that 30 deaths and 79000 foodborne illnesses due to consumption of eggs infected with Salmonella Enteritidis occur annually. New food safety requirements designed to address this issue...
Canadian government
The Canadian government recently proposed a set of Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for homes and industrial products including large air-conditioning systems, commercial air-conditioning systems, room air conditioners, portable air...
Market: Japanese heat pump market
A Japanese market research company has analysed the Japanese heat pump market for applications in Eco-Cute water heaters and air-conditioners and published a forecast for market development over the next 10 years. Growth expectations for the...