eJARN News
New Market Data for UK
Latest data from Eurovent Market Intelligence shows favorable results for the United Kingdom in the last quarter of 2014 when chiller sales rose by over 10% - higher than in Italy, France, and Germany. The 2014 market in Europe for air handling units was rated as ‘sluggish’ in the report with only the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark showing perceptible growth. Fan coils shadowed the trend in f...
The Poseidon Project
Code named Poseidon - this is an attempt to develop an automatic system for detecting the presence of Legionella bacteria in key equipment in air conditioning systems. Legionnaire’s disease (LD) re-mains a hazard and not yet overcome in many installations in spite of regular maintenance (see JARN’s Press Review in January). At the moment the detection technique for the pathogen relies on hu...
Heat Pumps in Finland
With a population of 5 million, Finland has one of the highest concentrations of heat pumps in Europe with a current stock of around 670,000 units. Sales in 2014 totaled 67,000 - a growth of 10% on the preceding year. Some 53,000 of these used air-source evaporators: geothermal installations accounted for 11,000 units - over half of these replaced existing oil-fired boilers. Exhaust ...
New Blend Refrigerant
UK manufacturer Precision Refrigeration - an equipment supplier to the food service industry - is to switch production to the relatively new HFO blend R448A which will replace the traditional R404A in its line of chillers and blast freezers. Because of its high global warming potential (GWP) of over 3,900, R404A is destined for fairly rapid phase-out in Europe under the F-gas regulations. B...
Future Heat Waves in Germany
A joint study by the German environmental agency Umweltbundesamt (UBA) and the German meteorological office Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) has examined the likelihood of a repeat of the Europe -wide heat wave of 2003 which reputedly led to the deaths of 50,000 people. Based on model simulations the conclusion is that heat waves will be more frequent, more intense and will last longer. By the ...
Hitachi’s VRF to Land in the U.S.
At the 2015 AHR Expo, JARN interviewed Yukinori Ozaki, general manager, North America Strategy & Business Development Office, Hitachi Appliances to hear about cooperation between Hitachi Appliance...
R32 Air Conditioners in India
Reported by Rakesh Kumar, Technical Editor, ISHRAE Journal In their quest for environmentally friendly substitutes for R22, room air conditioner (RAC) manufacturers in India have been trying di...
Greenheck Introduces Energy Management Motor Starter
Greenheck’s new fully programmable energy management motor starter model MSEM, now introduced in India, is adaptable to user needs. Available for single phase up to 15 hp or three phase up to 300 hp f...
Danfoss to Establish Center for Refrigeration and Cooling Te
Danfoss India has signed a memorandum of understanding with the College of Engineering, Pune, in Western India as part of its University Engagement Initiative. Danfoss will establish a center of excel...
TERI and UTC Set up Center of Excellence for Energy Efficien
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and United Technologies Corporation (UTC) have launched the Center of Excellence for Energy Efficient Buildings in India. The Center will develop an energy-us...
