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Evaporative cooling is gaining increasing attention as an energy-efficient alternative to conventional air conditioning. A new scientific study by an international team of researchers, including Anna Pacak,...
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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...
Market: Sales of home appliances soar in rural China
Sales of refrigerators rose greatly in May 2010: 5.8 million refrigerators and water heaters were 20% higher than in May compared with April 2010 and reached USD 1.8 billion in value. A total of 26.6 million appliances were sold during the period...
Cold chain news: India’s growing cold chain
With a 63.5-million-tonne annual production of fruit, 105-million-tonne annual production of milk, India is the largest fruit and milk producer in the world. It is also the second vegetable producer in the world with an annual production of 125.89...
Cold chain news: USDA emerging markets program
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Emerging Markets Program (EMP) is funding technical assistance activities intended to promote exports of US agricultural commodities and products to emerging markets in all geographic...
Refrigerant news: Refrigerant shortage
The refrigeration sector is facing a shortage of R134a, employed as a refrigerant or as a component used in the making of R404A. This is due to several factors: a lack of raw materials, the stopping of production of factories in Asia, low...
Refrigerant news: General Motors
General Motors has announced that it will convert by 2013 the air-conditioning systems in its entire fleet of Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GM models from HFC-134a (GWP of 1300) to HFC-1234yf developed by Honeywell and DuPont (GWP of 4). GM said...
Refrigerant news: European Union
The European Union has agreed to provide € 400 000 funding for a German information campaign on climate friendly air-conditioning systems in cars. The campaign will be led by the environmental group Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH). "Pro Climate:...
Refrigerant news: RMC
Refrigerant Management Canada (RMC) is fighting ozone depletion and global warming on two fronts: by collecting and destroying CFC and HCFC refrigerants and by launching and managing a programme governing HFC refrigerants. As part of the latter,...
Refrigerant news: UNEP
UNEP has just published a Manual for the Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Technicians and Engineers: Post phase-out period of CFCs and beginning of phase-out of HCFCs,which "may be used for the purpose of developing training resources or...
Refrigerant news: Training in CO2
- NVKL, the Dutch association of contractors, distributors and manufacturers, recently opened the first training centre of natural refrigerants in Europe. The new training centre is located in Ede, the Netherlands. It comprises: detection and...
Briefs: WMO-UNEP
The WMO-UNEP "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010" launched on the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (September 16) highlights Montreal Protocol contributions toward reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. It...
