eJARN News
Wasted Opportunities
Only 5% of air conditioning installations in the United Kingdom have so far been checked for operating performance as required by the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) which came into force in 2011. It applies to all systems with a cooling capacity of more than 12 kW - potentially giving it very wide coverage. In Germany the rate of take-up of the corresponding EnVe regulat...
Retail Refrigeration Growth
The world market for refrigerated display cabinets was estimated by Transparency Market Research at US$ 8.8 billion in 2012. In the next six years this is expected to almost double to US$ 16 million. Integral plug-in units rather than remote systems will be the most popular - two thirds of the demand will be in the form of openfronted cabinets. The Asia-Pacific regions will have the highest growth...
Domestic Hot Water Heat Pumps in France
Referred to as ‘thermodynamic hot water generators’ (Ceti) to distinguish them from electric storage units using resistance elements, integrated heat pump/hot water storage packages enjoyed a 32% increase in sales in 2013 to around 46,000 units. This compares with European sales of 65,000 units. The trend has been to some extent prompted by the 2012 energy regulations. Further growth in the future...
Inevitable Rise of R32
The newly strengthened F-gas regulations mean that refrigerants with a global warming potential (GWP) greater than 750 will be banned from split air conditioner units from 2025. Effectively the only choice will be either a hydrocarbon (HC) or R32 - both classed as flammable. A disadvantage with HCs, says Graeme Fox, president of Air conditioning and Refrigeration European Association (AREA), is th...
Heat Pump Market in Germany
Figures from the German heat pump association BWP show that the market stabilized in 2013 at a total 60,000 installations, sold mainly into housing. Air-/water-source systems accounted for nearly two-thirds of sales and the remaining one-thirds (21,000 units) were ground-source installations. However, groundsource systems are steadily losing market share. Apart from higher first cost, they have to...
Refrigerant Leakage Survey
Air conditioning installations such as central plant, splits and VRF systems have the lowest refrigerant leakage rates in the field compared with the rest of the refrigeration industry. This is the conclusion of a study by the German ACR industry trade association Verband Deutscher Kalte-Klima-Fachbetriebe (VDKF) which analyzed key operating data from around 70,000 ACR plants in 15,000 different a...
Danfoss New TG310 Compressor Combining Low GWP with High Eff
Danfoss released the TG310 compressor, which utilizes the ultra-low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant HFO-1234ze. The TG310 compressor is now available for packaged water chiller appli...
Headline News Volume 223
============================ eJARN.com Headline News Date: May 25, 2014, Volume 223 http://www.ejarn.com ============================ * Booming VRF Market (World Air Conditioner Market) World VRF market scale grew more than 20% year on year to over 1 million units in 2013 on an outdoor unit basis. China has become the world’s largest VRF market, reaching 580,000 units in 2013. http://www.eja...
Eurovent to Launch Online Platform for Eurovent Summit
--October 7-10 in Berlin, Germany Through the launch of a dedicated online platform, the European Committee of HVAC&R Manufacturers, Eurovent, begins to receive registrations for its Eurove...
Carrier Installs CO2 Refrigeration System in Southern Spain
Carrier Commercial Refrigeration Iberica has installed a transcritical CO2 refrigeration system in a Carrefour hypermarket in the high ambient temperature environment of Valencia, Spain. The applicati...
