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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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Out of the ordinary: Outdoor fridge
If you've always wanted to relax outside and not rush back to your kitchen to get cool drinks and food all the time, here's the ideal fridge for barbecues and outdoor parties.
Energy savings in display cabinets
Several new developments make it possible to save energy in display cabinets. - Optimizing air curtain velocity A team at the Air Curtain Research Laboratory at Kettering University in Michigan, US, has modellized the air flow in air curtains and...
MAC developments
While in the mobile air-conditioning (MAC) sector, R&D is focusing on alternative refrigerants to R134a (see "In the news" below), some other research projects or achievements are noteworthy: - The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in...
Briefs: Ice slurries, heart attack victims and surgery patients
In cardiac arrest victims, without fresh oxygen from blood pumped through the body, brain cells start to die in just minutes. Within 10-20 minutes after the heart stops beating, even if doctors can get the heart beating again, the brain has died....
Briefs: solar air-conditioning prototype
As part of the European programme Solera, CEA LITEN researchers recently set up a 4.5-kW solar air-conditioning prototype in the facilities of the INES (French National Institute of Solar Energy) in Chambéry in the French Alps, where the system...
Briefs: double-effect trigeneration for energy savings in French space centre
The Centre Spatial de Toulouse, which is part of the French Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales is now equipped with a large-scale trigeneration plant. The Centre comprises 60 buildings and employs 2500 employees and until 2002 also had a huge...
Briefs: CERN: LHC relaunch
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. All tests on the machine's high-current electrical connections have now been completed and demonstrate that no further...
Briefs: Swiss supermarket chain COOP chooses CO2
COOP has implemented CO2 as refrigerant of choice for low-and medium-temperature applications and aims at becoming CO2 neutral by 2023. The first supermarket has been equipped with a CO2 booster system engineered by Frigo-Consulting AG. A central...
Briefs: phase-out of HCFCs
The December 31, 2009 deadline for the phase-out of HCFCs is expected to generate important problems in many countries: - In the US, no HCFC-22 can be produced or imported for use in refrigerating equipment manufactured after December 31, 2009....
Briefs: China
China aims to save 75 TWh of power consumption per year - the equivalent of 75 million tonnes of CO2e by promoting energy-efficient air conditioners and other home appliances. The National Development and Reform Commission has detailed the first...
Briefs: USA
- The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published on August 31 the first energy efficiency standards for refrigerated vending machines. The new standards take effect in 2012 and over the following 30 years, DOE estimates it will save about 47 TWh...
Briefs: Incentives for energy-efficient refrigerators
- US measures A USD 300 million programme, similar to what Stråberg suggested for Sweden, was recently announced by President Barack Obama. The US package will authorize states to create rebates with an expected value of USD 50-200 for each...
Reefer market strong despite crisis
The shipping sector has generally suffered from the economic downturn, especially bulk and container sectors. However, the reefer market still showed a 10-15% increase in 2008 as the ageing fleet is in need of renewal. At the end of 2008, the...
GCC district cooling is booming
According to a MEED recent report, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) district cooling market has experienced rapid growth over the past 10 years and now has a capacity of just over 6300 MW. The GCC involves the 6 Persian Gulf states of Bahrain,...
Figures: France
- According to Cemagref, the French agri-food sector represents 24 million tons of refrigerated food, 4000 factories, 1600 warehouses (over 2000 m3), 8800 super- and hypermarkets, 60 000 local stores, 75 000 temperature-controlled vehicles, 36...
Heat pumps sales soar in France
AFPAC (Association Française pour les Pompes à Chaleur) has announced a record sales figure for air-to-water heat pumps (HPs). Sales recorded by AFPAC members were 133 080 in 2008, up over 160% over 2007. The overall market in 2008 is estimated...
Frozen foods take off in China
Total sales of frozen foods in China soared to USD 14 billion in 2008, up 140% over 2002. Tonnage reached about 4.615 million, or 3.47 kilograms per capita, up 70% according to Research & Markets. Frozen potato products were the fastest...
Briefs: Japan: refrigerant leakage larger than expected
According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan, leakage of fluorinated refrigerants used in air-conditioning equipment in the country is on the average 10 times greater than estimated. METI collected...
Briefs: Pakistan: policy to support the cold chain
The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) plans to put in place a cold storage/cold chain infrastructure in order to fight post-harvest losses which are a major economic issue, for exports in particular. It is claimed that 35-40% of the...
Briefs: California promotes ammonia
The US Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has proposed a bill designed to tackle the issue of high global warming potential (GWP) gases in California, and it is hoped that the bill will pave the way to national legislation. Ammonia is put forward as...
Briefs: Stockholm
Stockholm has won the coveted European Green Capital 2010 Award. Among technology singled out as exemplary: Stockholm's huge district cooling system.
Briefs: Coldstore Engineering in New Zealand
Hot off the press: a new set of guidelines for the New Zealand coldstore industry. The 67-page Coldstore Engineering in New Zealand document is published by the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Coldstore Working Party....
Out of the ordinary: USB Mini Fridge
Fed up with warm drinks in the summer? Thanks to the USB Mini Fridge measuring 19.4 x 9 x 9 cm and weighing a mere 360 g, and a cooling pad running off your USB key that cools to 8.5°C within 5 minutes, you can cool your drink and stay at your...
Recent applications of CO2 in the food industry
Carbon dioxide has been used in highly advanced applications the food industry for decades. Recent concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are leading manufacturers to use recycled CO2 from other industrial processes. Linde claim they use the...
Pioneering CO2 road vehicles
Aldi Süd, Germany's biggest supermarket chain, is investing in new road transportation for frozen food and beverages with a view to promoting CO2. The next-generation vehicles will go into serial production after being exhibited at the Frankfurt...
