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Un nouveau cadre cherche à établir des normes pour la recherche sur les technologies de refroidissement par évaporation
Le refroidissement par évaporation suscite un intérêt croissant en tant qu’alternative économe en énergie à la climatisation classique. Une nouvelle étude scientifique menée par une équipe internationale de...
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Mexico
Mexico has ceased all production of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 4 years ahead of the deadline defined in the 1987 Montreal Protocol. Figuring amongst the 189 nations to date to ratify the protocol on ozone-depleting gases containing...
China food chain
Last year, China reported almost 70 billion yuan (USD 8.63 billion) losses in discarded fruit and vegetables. Annual food production is estimated at USD 300 billion but over 20% of food is wasted during transportation due, according to the...
Grocery markets
Market research carried out by IGD Research predicts Russia will be Europe's largest grocery market by 2020. Russia is forecast to almost treble it's market power over the next fifteen years to EUR 375bn to become European leader. The Russian food...
Brief: ARI call for HFC regulations
The vice-president of engineering and research at the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI), Mark Menzer, (also the US delegate to the IIR), stated during the ARI Spring meeting that ARI would like the US Environmental Protection...
Brief: Transfrigoroute International is 50 years old!
Its 24th Congress took place in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) on September 22-24, 2005. The President of Transfrigoroute International, the President of Commission D2 and the Director of the IIR met in order to reinforce the partnership agreement...
Brief: Association Belge du Froid
The Association Belge du Froid (ABF/BVK) (Belgian Refrigeration Association) and the Union Royale Belge du Froid et du Conditionnement de l'air (UBF-ACA) (Royal Belgian Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Union) are to merge. The ABF/BVK shall...
Brief: Institute of Refrigeration
The Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) has published a guidance note on "Energy Efficiency and Refrigerant Choice". The key message of this note is "Refrigerant choice matters, but many other design issues matter more". "Mistakes in design and...
Brief: WHO
WHO has donated three walk-in vaccine storage cold rooms worth 1.5 million birr (over 140 000 €) to Ethiopia. Two of the 30 m3 cold rooms were installed in Addis Ababa and the other in Mekele. They will be used to store USD 5 million worth of...
Brief: HARFKO 2006
HARFKO 2006 will take place in Seoul, Korea, on May 2-5, 2006. Korea is the gateway to three giant markets: China, Japan and Russia. HARFKO 2005 was highly successful: it attracted 160 companies and over 20 000 visitors from 60 countries.
CERN milestone
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and a corporate member of the IIR, has announced that an important milestone was reached in August 2005 with the installation of the two largest magnets ever built for experiments at CERN. On...
Cemagref and EdF
Cemagref and EdF, benefactor members of the IIR, have signed an agreement in the fields of water management and refrigeration. Both organizations are involved in sediment management and are combining forces to address the European Framework...
Axima Refrigeration France
There are only 12 helium production sites in the world, essentially located in the USA, Algeria and Australia. Axima Refrigeration France, a corporate member of the IIR, has supplied equipment to Qatar as part of one of the largest helium recovery...
GRDP
If you would like to contact French companies in the refrigerated transport field, the Groupement national des transporteurs routiers de Denrées et Produits périssables, GRDP, has just published the 41st edition of its member directory. Price: 29...
Out of ordinary: Skiing under a hot desert sun
What has been referred to as one of the "biggest refrigerators in the world", Dubai's indoor winter sports centre, designed by Acer Snowmech Consultants, spans 170 000 m3, defying nature and a stifling hot desert sun. In order to create an ideal...
Out of ordinary: Ice skating inside and out
The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC has an ice-skating rink in its Art Sculpture Garden. Skaters can view sculpture as they skate, then go inside the museum and see paintings of ice skaters, including Gilbert Stuart's The Skater(Portrait...
China
China 's first self-made LNG carrier is being constructed in Shanghai after almost 8 years of research, training of building specialists and planning. An LNG ship is worth between USD 170 million and 200 million. The vessel which is due for...
UK
Changing roles from exporter to importer, the UK is expected to be a net gas importer by 2006 and by 2020, 80% of the UK's gas will be imported. In line with these predictions, Britain has signed a Treaty with Norway to import gas from Scandinavia...
Qatar
In collaboration with an ExxonMobil affiliate, Qatar has recently announced plans to develop its capacity to deliver more than 60 million metric tonnes of LNG per annum to sell to customers worldwide. This Middle Eastern country boasts the third...
CO2 Supermarkets
The journal Die Kälte und Klimatechnik has just produced an article on the opening of a supermarket using refrigeration installations for the first time running on direct expansion CO2 with both medium and low temperatures in Wettingen,...
Compressors: key trends
Over the past few years, the design and performance of rotary, reciprocating positive displacement and dynamic compressors have been greatly improved. CO2 compressors have conquered new niches and twin-screw compressors are now increasingly used...
Automobile technology: what’s new?
Delphi Corporation has developed a reversible CO 2 car air-conditioning system using air-coolant heat-pump technology. Delphi says that the system allows better integration into the vehicle and a higher performance-to-cost ratio than other...
Fermidable
In a team led by Wolfgang Ketterle, a nobel laureate, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) scientists have been the first to create "a new type of matter", a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity. A superfluid gas can flow...
Cryo-Evolution
Thanks to advances in new freezing techniques, Israeli scientists have successfully transplanted whole frozen and thawed ovaries in sheep, retrieved oocytes from these ovaries and triggered them in the laboratory into early embryonic development,...
Heating and cooling ceilings
The upcoming translation of European Directive 2002/91/EC on improving energy efficiency in buildings into EU national legislation in January 2006 calls for a clear improvement in the energy efficiency of cooling and heating systems. In view of...
Saving lives using solar refrigerators
The SolarChill project is providing an environmentally friendly means of refrigerating vaccines and certain drugs. The aim is to replace the 100 000 kerosene refrigerators in use today: these refrigerators emit unpleasant fumes, can catch fire and...
