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  • Out of ordinary: Chilled Medieval Book

    A 1000-year-old Book of Psalms has been discovered by a construction worker in Ireland and is now stored in refrigeration at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. The book was found in a bog and the tannic acid content of the bog is thought to...

    • Date de publication : 12/02/2007
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  • Out of the ordinary: Ötzi

    Ötzi's last days are turning into a 5000-year-old murder case. New investigations by researchers have established the chronology of the injuries that Ötzi, the glacier man preserved as a frozen mummy, sustained in his last days. It has now been...

    • Date de publication : 09/12/2009
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  • Briefs: Chameleon tiles for energy savings

    It is a well-known fact that dark surfaces absorb the sun's heat, whereas white surfaces reflect it. US Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, considers that turning all roofs white would eliminate as much greenhouse gas emissions in 20 years as the...

    • Date de publication : 07/03/2010
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  • European seminar on CO2 at the University of Milan

    Centro Studi Galileo, collective member of the IIR, will organize on Saturday November 27, 2004, together with the Centre of research for Environmental and Manufacturing Studies of the University of Milan, a European seminar on CO2, with the...

    • Date de publication : 12/11/2004
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  • High efficiency, low carbon supermarket refrigeration

    This paper was presented at the IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference in Glasgow (Sep. 2004). A new but simple high efficiency refrigeration system design suitable for use in supermarkets has been developed based on standard components so that...

    • Date de publication : 24/11/2004
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  • AC Market in Europe

    According to Daikin Industries Ltd., the European air-conditioning (AC) market has features that could appear as commercial obstacles, including relatively mild climate, even in Mediterranean areas. Concern for cityscape issues leads to resistance...

    • Date de publication : 26/07/2006
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  • HFO-1234yf news

    HFO-1234yf, developed by DuPont and Honeywell as a substitute for HFC-134a in mobile air-conditioning applications in response to EU 2006/40 Directive which bans the use of refrigerants with a GWP higher than 150 in new types of vehicles by...

    • Date de publication : 04/02/2011
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  • Le Japon a importé 87.5 Mt de GNL en 2013

    Les importations japonaises de LNG sont demeurées stables en volume (+0,2%) en 2013. (en anglais)

    • Date de publication : 08/02/2014
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  • 5 conceptions de conditionnement d'air inspirées par la nature (en anglais)

    Une équipe de concepteurs cherchent à imiter l'ingéniosité de Mère Nature afin de remédier à à la forte consommation d'électricité du conditionnement d'air.

    • Date de publication : 19/09/2013
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  • La chaîne du froid des produits réfrigérés en France

    Les résultats d'une étude sur la chaîne du froid en France menée dans le cadre du projet FRISBEE ont été publiés dans la Revue Internationale du Froid.

    • Date de publication : 13/11/2015
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  • R32, a short-term candidate to replace R22 in China?

    HFC-32 attracted attention during ICR2011 in Prague: it was the subject of 12 papers. It is the main component of HFC-410A with which it shares similar thermodynamic properties, but at a lower price and with a lower GWP (675).

    • Date de publication : 27/12/2011
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  • Insufficient cold chains in Ukraine

    Statistics show that around 50-60% of fruit and vegetables harvested in Ukraine are lost due to insufficient logistics and cold chains.

    • Date de publication : 20/02/2012
    • Sujets : Chiffres, économie
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  • 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.

    • Date de publication : 08/02/2013
    • Sujets : Chiffres, économie
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  • Légère augmentation de la consommation de HFC en 2020 en Europe

    En 2020, la consommation de HFC en Europe a augmenté de 7 % par rapport à 2019 mais demeure conforme aux exigences du Règlement F-Gaz, selon l’Agence européenne pour l’environnement.  

    • Date de publication : 28/01/2022
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  • La demande de LNG en Inde en forte expansion

    Selon le Minstère indien du Pétrole et du Gaz Naturel, le GNL a représenté 41% de la consommation indienne totale de gaz sur la période 2012-2013 et représentera 50% de celle-ci sur la période 2013-2014.

    • Date de publication : 21/05/2014
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