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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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District cooling: Copenhagen, home of the largest absorption chiller cooling
A recent report by the City of Copenhagen, home of the largest absorption chiller cooling, network gives a glimpse of its district cooling system which uses seawater and surplus heat from the district heating network (through absorption cooling...
CO2 for transport refrigeration systems
A paper presented during the 10th IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference held in Delft in 2012 summarizes developments on cryogenic solutions for refrigerated vehicles using liquid CO2 in an open cycle system.
Huge energy savings thanks to Mexican standards for domestic fridges
A recent article by researchers from the Autonomous University of Mexico City presents an assessment of the savings achieved since the introduction of recent national official standards setting maximum energy use caps. This paper can be downloaded...
New data-centre figures
According to a study by DatacenterDynamics, global data centre power use in 2011 was 31 GW, roughly 2% of global power use. These figures were projected to increase by 19% in 2012.
New HFO/CO2 blends in the pipeline
The refrigeration and air-conditioning sector has long been divided into two distinct camps, that promoting natural refrigerants and that developing low-GWP fluorocarbons. But could this be about to change?
Solar perspectives for cooling in the Gulf
Air conditioning is claimed to account for 60% of the energy consumption in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and various options for lowering the air-conditioning energy demand are being considered.
Controversy over R1234yf: EC confirms enforcement of MAC Directive by January 1, 2013
Despite the safety concerns expressed by Daimler and calls for an additional moratorium in the refrigerant transition schedule, the EC restated on December 20, 2012, that “the MAC Directive will be fully enforced as of January 1, 2013”
Potential for an HFC phase-down in Europe
A recent report by SKM ENVIROS carried out on behalf of EPEE has investigated the potential costs and the reduced greenhouse gas emissions from an HFC consumption phase-down on the EU refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump (RAC) markets.
Europe: la consommation de denrées surgelées en augmentation
Selon une étude de Food for Thought (FFT), la consommation européenne de denrées surgelées a augmenté de 14% entre 2010 (12.663 millions de tonnes) et 2012 (14.456 millions de tonnes)
India’s capacity to leapfrog HFCs
A paper* presented by Non Governmental Organizations during MOP-24 in Geneva describes preliminary results of a project to explore the business case in India for avoiding high-GWP HFCs in new room air conditioners and motor vehicle air...
Cooling cardiac arrest patients improves survival
Research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2012 demonstrates that cooling patients resuscitated after sudden cardiac arrest in order to achieve a lower body temperature increases survival.
Towards a heat pump boom in Switzerland?
Swiss government aims to install 400 000 heat pumps by 2020.
Strong growth in the African air-conditioning market
Africa is gaining more attention as a potential market in the current sluggish global economic environment
Global demand for commercial refrigeration equipment to rise.
The demand is predicted to benefit from strong growth in some of the world’s largest developing nations.
Europe: 4th quarter 2012 HVAC-R market trends
Eurovent Market Intelligence (EMI) has just released the latest trends for the European HVAC&R market.
More refrigerated trucks on the road in China
It is estimated that USD 31.7 billion will be invested in setting up cold chain logistic in China in the near future
Global chiller sales trends in 2012
According to BSRIA, the world chiller market is very likely to experience a slight dip in value in 2012 related to the overall global economic situation.
GL2012 highlights: Experience from the Danish regulation on fluorinated gas
In 2001 and 2002, Denmark introduced a national regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases: they were banned for certain purposes and a tax of DKK 100 (around 13 €) per tonne of CO2 equivalents was imposed on the importation of HFC/PFC/SF6....
Active, intelligent and smart packaging sales trends
Visiongain, a business information provider, forecasts that increasing health awareness, rising food and safety concerns and improved purchasing power in emerging economies will drive growth on the active, intelligent and smart packaging market.
Wales to launches its own deep freeze ahead of the Six Nations Championship
Wales is to build a cryotherapy chamber at its rugby training base near Cardiff in time for next year’s Six Nations Championship.
Global cooling tower market forecast to reach 2.6 billion USD by 2018
According to a recent report by Global Industry Analysts Inc., the global market for cooling towers is projected to reach USD 2.6 billion by 2018, driven by improving economic conditions and more stringent environmental regulations.
China and Vietnam get funding support to phase out HCFCs
The World Bank recently approved a grant of USD 73 million from the Multilateral Fund to China to support its efforts to phase out HCFC consumption and production.
Assessing the effects of CO2 cryocapture
According to Physicists at the University of Oregon, refrigerating coal plant emissions would reduce CO2 emissions by 90%, and reduce levels of other dangerous chemicals such as SO2 and Mercury, but would raise electricity costs by about 25%.
MegaFood Park to be launched in India
India is continuing its roll-out of food and drink processing hubs. Another Mega Food Park site is to be launched in Malipada in the state of Odisha.
New Zealand’s 2nd transcritical CO2 supermarket has opened its doors
In less than one month, two New Zealand supermarkets featuring transcritical (TC) CO2 refrigeration technology have opened.
