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  • Ice storage

    The Paris Palais des Congrès, a vast building comprising a Congress centre, a hotel and a shopping mall is equipped with an ice storage system allowing it to optimize its power-bill management in winter, but also to shave summer peaks and to...

    • Date de publication : 20/11/2007
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  • Chillers: efficiency takes off

    Chillers are key refrigerating systems since, according to the Department of Energy, in the US, they account for about 13% of the power consumed by the nation's buildings and 9% of the overall demand for electric power. Examples below illustrate...

    • Date de publication : 25/10/2008
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  • Sorption chillers

    Sorption chiller technology is rapidly developing, especially that using solar energy. - As highlighted by Jacob and Kohlenbach* during the latest IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Working Fluids in Sydney, in Europe, numerous new...

    • Date de publication : 07/02/2011
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  • Le dernier rapport du GIEC prévoit un risque accru de canicules

    Le rapport du GIEC publié en février 2022 met en évidence plusieurs risques liés à  la hausse des températures, tels que l'augmentation des vagues de chaleur et la hausse de la...

    • Date de publication : 31/03/2022
    • Sujets : Environnement
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  • Briefs: Water savings thanks to hybrid condensers

    Hybrid condensers offer significant water savings versus traditional water-cooled and evaporative condensers. They also make it possible to reduce energy consumption and refrigerant charge. In Australia, where water savings are a major issue since...

    • Date de publication : 05/08/2007
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  • Briefs: Optimized freight hub

    A new temperature-controlled freight hub in Christchurch International Airport, New Zealand, was opened by Hellmann Worldwide Logistics on March 12, 2009. "The facility has been predicated on environmental, efficiency and energy-conscious criteria...

    • Date de publication : 18/05/2009
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  • Marine refrigeration

    The use of natural refrigerants is gradually spreading. Here are two examples of their use in the marine sector: - Environmentally-friendly fish transport American Freedom is one of the world's largest refrigerated ships and can hold up to...

    • Date de publication : 20/11/2007
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  • Les hydrocarbures comme frigorigènes en conditionnement d’air

    Présentation de plusieurs initiatives visant à développer l’utilisation de frigorigènes hydrocarbures – et notamment du propane – en conditionnement d’air en Inde, en Indonésie, au Ghana, au Costa Rica et aux Philippines.

    • Date de publication : 29/11/2019
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  • Centres de données : les enjeux d’un refroidissement éco-énergétique des puces électroniques

    Des solutions de refroidissement liquide innovantes sont en cours de développement pour poursuivre la réduction de la consommation d’énergie des centres de données, dont le nombre est en très forte...

    • Date de publication : 26/01/2024
    • Sujets : Technologie
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  • Efficient mine cooling

    Bluhm Burton Engineering (BBE) is currently implementing energy management ventilation and refrigeration systems for mines to reduce overall and to manage energy consumption. BBE's Director, Raymond Funnell, has underscored that there is a boom in...

    • Date de publication : 13/05/2008
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  • Eco-friendly cooling for Tokyo’s Haneda Airport

    The new international terminal of Haneda Airport opened in October 2010. It uses a combination of geothermal energy, solar power and cogeneration systems to reduce energy consumption and is also the first airport to use sodium sulphur (NaS)...

    • Date de publication : 01/06/2011
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  • Climate control in the Gibraltar tunnel project

    A project for a tunnel linking Punta Paloma in Spain and Malabata Point in Morocco and currently in preparatory phase raises some interesting and crucial climate control issues. Governments of both nations appointed the Swiss engineer Giovanni...

    • Date de publication : 13/05/2008
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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...

    • Date de publication : 25/02/2009
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  • H-fluid as an alternative to HFC-134a?

    The new European Directive 2006/40 on emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles - which bans F-gases with a GWP higher than 150 (such as HFC-134a) as of 2011 for new models of cars - and Californian legislation which is putting...

    • Date de publication : 15/11/2006
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  • Solar cooling: Developing countries

    In order to help Jean-Louis Julliard, a French producer, market local-fish precooked meals in Mali, Lionel Bataille improved existing solar-cooling technology developed by a CNRS laboratory in Perpignan, France. The cooling system used a...

    • Date de publication : 04/02/2011
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