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  • Africa’s first concentrating solar cooling system

    Mobile telecommunications company MTN has launched Africa’s first Concentrating Solar Cooling System in its Head office in Johannesburg.

    • Publication date : 2014/09/30
  • Briefs: Embraco's new miniature compressor

    In Newsletter No. 35, we reported on research, especially at Purdue University, on the design of miniature evaporators and compressors. Still in the testing phase, but already considered a technological innovation, Embraco's new miniature...

    • Publication date : 2009/05/18
  • Phare Tower

    Morphosis's Phare (Lighthouse) Tower is to go up in La Défense, France. Thom Mayne, the Design Director, describes the future landmark building as follows: "Moving around the tower, it appears to shift continually, distinct from different vantage...

    • Publication date : 2007/05/04
  • Adoption of long-awaited standard for flammable refrigerants

    International Electrotechnical Commission standard approves increased charge of flammable refrigerants in domestic installations.

    • Publication date : 2022/05/27
    • Subjects: Regulation, HFCs alternatives
  • Data centre in Finland recovers waste heat

    The companies Ericcson and Fortum signed an agreement to recover a data centre waste heat for district heating.

    • Publication date : 2017/10/12
  • Optimisation of a heat pump for satellite cooling

    Satellites are deployed into near earth orbit in order to provide a platform for a wide range of missions, including telecommunications systems, surveillance systems and astronomical systems.These systems have seen a large increase in...

    • Publication date : 2015/06/19
  • Recent trends in data centre cooling

    Currently, keeping computer systems cool accounts for 70% of a data centre’s non-IT energy consumption. With the data centre industry growing by 12% annually, saving energy required for cooling is becoming a crucial issue and new options are being...

    • Publication date : 2012/12/17
  • The HVAC&R market in the EMEA region in 2015

    Eurovent Market Intelligence (EMI), the European Statistics Office for the HVAC&R market, has just published the results of its studies on 2015 sales in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, based on the data collected from a large...

    • Publication date : 2016/12/06
    • Subjects: Figures, economy
  • Focus on the last events in June 2021

    In June 2021, the IIR organised two conferences: Thermag and HFO. It also participated in the European Conferences on the latest technologies in refrigeration and air conditioning organised by Centro Studi...

    • Publication date : 2021/06/29
  • News from IIR members: Masterflux from Tecumseh

    Tecumseh has unveiled a new line of direct-current (DC) Masterflux compressors in India. The compressor manufacturer has designed the compressors for battery cooling applications for the growing telecommunications market and also for beverage...

    • Publication date : 2012/03/05