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  • Brief: Clark Bullard

    Clark Bullard, President of IIR Commission B2, received the Distinguished Service Award from ASHRAE at the 2004 ASHRAE Annual Meeting on June 26-30 in Nashville, USA.

    • Publication date : 2004/11/10
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  • Global retail markets feeling the bulge

    According to IGD, a market research distributor, China is set to be the world's second largest food retail market by 2020, an increase driven by the increased spending power and changes in eating habits of the 1.3 billion population. China is fast...

    • Publication date : 2005/07/19
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  • Bunker under highly controlled-atmosphere to measure Earth’s rotation

    Equipment with extremely stable laser requires perfect mastery of air pressure and temperature.

    • Publication date : 2012/08/30
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  • Quest for the eternal bubble

    Two Paris-based artists, Olivier Dollinger and Jochen Dehn, are attempting to freeze a liquid bubble permanently. The bubble is to be suspended in mid-air thanks to a refined air-flow system, in a large low-temperature refrigerated display cabinet.

    • Publication date : 2013/09/13
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  • LNG is expected to meet 24% of global bunker fuel supply by 2025

    In a Lloyd’s Register report released in April 2014, it has been suggested that LNG will account for 13% of the global bunker fuel market by 2020, increasing to 24% in 2025.

    • Publication date : 2014/05/14
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  • Illegal HFC trade: EIA calls for the implementation of a fully functional licensing system

    EIA’s analysis of 2018 customs data suggests that as much as 16.3 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent of bulk HFCs were illegally placed on the market in 2018.

    • Publication date : 2019/05/29
    • Subjects: HFCs alternatives
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  • Refrigerant news: The price of HFC-134a is increasing

    DuPont Fluoroproducts announced a 10% global price increase for its bulk HFC-134a refrigerant, effective on shipments after December 1, 2009. Increasing raw material costs led to the price increase, which applies to all HFC-134a bulk product sold...

    • Publication date : 2010/03/07
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  • The refrigeration sector celebrates International Women's Day and World Engineering Day

    Engineers and technicians make up the bulk of the workforce in the refrigeration and heat pump sector, a growing sector in which all professions are accessible to women.

    • Publication date : 2024/03/08
    • Subjects: Figures, economy
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  • BOC Refrigerants acquire CARE®

    On January 31, 2005, BOC announced that it had completed a deal with Calor Gas Limited to purchase the company's CARE® range if environmentally sensitive refrigerants. The deal also includes Calor's UK aerosol propellants business and sales,...

    • Publication date : 2005/03/15
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  • 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...

    • Publication date : 2009/08/13
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  • Autonomous systems for refrigerated transport

    The refrigerated transport sector is looking for solutions to reduce fuel consumption, refrigerant emissions and noise emissions. - Autonomous systems cooled by cryogenic secondary coolants offer alternatives. A system developed in Germany uses...

    • Publication date : 2009/02/25
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  • Climate control for your desk

    We are used to taking command of our personal climate in planes and cars by using simple controls. Why not in buildings too? A study of the effect of installing individual air-conditioning vents at office desks, and putting controls at each...

    • Publication date : 2010/03/07
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  • New cryogenic refrigerator to deep-freeze chips

    Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a compact, solid-state refrigerator capable of reaching very low temperatures (as low as 100 milliKelvin). The refrigerator works using a "sandwich" of normal-...

    • Publication date : 2004/05/25
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  • Optical refrigeration

    A team in New Mexico University has created the first-ever optical cryocooler that could be applied to airborne and spaceborne sensors. It uses optical refrigeration which could enable miniaturization, an alternative to bulky mechanical...

    • Publication date : 2010/05/27
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  • EU: huge stockpiling of HFCs

    Imports of HFC refrigerants into Europe almost doubled in 2014, the year before quotas were introduced.

    • Publication date : 2016/08/10
    • Subjects: HFCs alternatives
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  • Brief: Prof. Clark Bullard

    Prof. Clark Bullard, President of the IIR's Commission B2, was awarded the UK Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) J & E Hall Gold Medal on February 9, 2005 during the IoR's prestigious 105th Anniversary Dinner held in London. This award for the...

    • Publication date : 2005/06/14
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  • The new e-Bulletin

    Many of you are already aware that the Bulletin of the IIR is now being provided in electronic form. The new e-Bulletin, available via Internet, contains all the information provided in the paper version of the Bulletin: abstracts of articles and...

    • Publication date : 2006/07/26
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  • Briefs: Prof. Clark Bullard

    During the Purdue Conferences held on July 12-15, 2010, Prof. Clark Bullard of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign received the Wilbur T. Pentzer Achievement and Leadership Award for outstanding contributions to the growth and...

    • Publication date : 2011/02/07
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  • IIR member news: A new BSRIA study on the global compressor market 

    A recent study by BSRIA shows that sales of refrigeration compressors in 2022 are expected to reach 502 million units with a value of USD 48.6 billion, up 15% year-on-year. 

    • Publication date : 2022/12/13
    • Subjects: Figures, economy
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  • The IIR worldwide

    Focus on the latest IIR interventions around the world.

    • Publication date : 2019/04/30
    • Subjects: General information
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  • The IIR brings women in refrigeration to the forefront

    Discover the reasons why the IIR organised its first fun and informal workshop on “Women in Refrigeration” during ICR2015.

    • Publication date : 2015/09/09
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  • IIR Member news: Star Refrigeration installs ammonia chillers in an indoor skiing facility

    After 90 years of existence, indoor skiing now uses modern and energy efficient technologies. Star Refrigeration participates in this evolution with its ammonia chillers.

    • Publication date : 2018/12/27
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  • Cryogenics in the pharmaceutical industry: drug design and bioavailability improvement

    Research activities in the pharmaceutical sector focus primarily on developing novel drug formulations which can elicit the desired response upon being administered to the patient...

    • Last update : 2023/03/10
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Freeze-drying in biology and medicine, Cryobiology, cryomedicine: general information
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  • Additive manufacturing of regenerators for caloric cooling

    In many areas of engineering, additive manufacturing allows the production of complex and multifunctional products that could not be manufactured using traditional methods. In the...

    • Last update : 2022/09/16
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Caloric cooling (magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, elastocaloric and barocaloric cooling)
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  • Additive manufacturing of heat exchangers

    In the refrigeration industry, additive manufacturing (colloquially referred to as “3D printing”) makes it possible to fabricate novel, complex and potentially more energy efficient...

    • Last update : 2022/09/07
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Evaporators, condensers and other heat exchangers
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  • Ice cream manufacturing, environmental impact and market data

    From a physico-chemical point of view, ice cream is a complex, frozen multiphase mixture. The manufacturing process includes several stages of freezing which are described in this...

    • Last update : 2023/06/30
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Ice creams
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  • Cryogenic nitrogen in the food and beverage industry

    The adoption of cryogenic processes in the food and beverage industry is predominantly driven by liquid nitrogen (LIN), and it is the preferred candidate for food chilling and...

    • Last update : 2023/11/07
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : Freezing of foodstuffs
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  • Environmental impact of the ice cream industry

    This summary document describes the environmental impact of ice cream manufacturing, which is mainly due to the energy consumption and refrigerants used.

    • Last update : 2022/11/17
    • Langues : French, English
    • Themes : General information on environment (climate change, ozone depletion…)
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