eJARN News
Critical Role for Air Conditioning
Cooling buildings in summer is just as vital as heating them in winter, says Bjarne Olesen, director of the international center for the internal environment at Denmark’s technical university (DTU). Since 2004 Professor Olesen has led a team studying the performance of systems which use parts of a building structure (notably the concrete decking) to store and redistribute thermal energy. Such syst...
Airwell Group Insolvent
April in Paris this year was marked by an announcement from the Airwell Group that the company had become insolvent. The group has a workforce of 500 and a turnover of some ?65 million producing air handling units, chillers and fan convectors. Airwell’s German subsidiaries have not been affected nor Airwell Residential in Paris, specialists in room air conditioning equipment, who split off from th...
Australia Getting into Gear to Shift to R32
ARBS 2014 was recently held in Melbourne, where Daikin and Fujitsu General displayed a wide selection of R32 room air conditioners (RACs). Australia, which has some of the most stringent Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) in the world, appears to have begun transitioning to RACs that use new refrigerant R32. Based on information JARN obtained on the ground at ARBS, Daikin showed a ...
Whirlpool Receives First Energy Star for Clothes Dryers
Jun 19, 2014 Whirlpool Corporation became the first appliance manufacturer to offer an Energy Star certified clothes dryer. The company recently received certification from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program on the Whirlpool brand Duet model WED87HED steam dryer. The EPA launched the new Energy Star label for clothes dryers on May 27. The new specifications will ...
Report: Marginal Impact of Electric Heat Pumps on Home Sale
Jun 19, 2014 The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) released the result of a study conducted by ECONorthwest to estimate the effect that electric heat pumps have on the sale price of homes in the Northwestern United States. The study was conducted in five Willamette Valley, OR counties. The findings show that, in Benton, Lane, and Linn counties, homes with an electric heat pump wer...
Danfoss publishes paper on the global implications of the Eu
19 June 2014 Paper discusses the potential implications and scenarios of the EU’s phasedown of fluorinated greenhouses gases for the United States and rest of the world Danfoss today released a...
