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Magnetic Centrifugal Air-conditioning Union Established
The Magnetic Centrifugal Air-conditioning Union (MCAU) was established on September 16. This Union was jointly set up by Haier, HVAC committee of China Association of Building Energy Efficiency (CABEE...
ebm-papst FlowGrid Reducing AC Noise
The ebm-papst FlowGrid air-inlet grille can drastically reduce noise levels in refrigeration, ventilation and air conditioning technology. Disturbance of the flow of air into the fan produces a...
Air Conditioner Manufacturers Excited at Canton Fair
From October 15 to 19, the first session of the 114th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) was held. As a barometer of foreign trade in China, this session of Canton Fair showed a positive sign....
Mitsubishi Electric Ecodan Adopted for UK Kingston Heights
The community heating technology behind the eco-friendly Kingston Heights housing development in the United Kingdom is based on an open water-source heat pump system that is tried and tested, and read...
Heat Pumps Do Better
A survey in 2010 of a number of domestic heat pump installations by the UK’s Energy Saving Trust was critical of design and performance, and recommended a series of improvements. Subsequent retesting which has just been completed shows that most of the 30 or so installations have benefited from the modifications which were made. The Trust concludes that close attention to installation design and c...
New Idea to Beat Illegal Refrigerants
The sharp rise in the cost of R134a has prompted an increase in the amount of counterfeit refrigerants entering the market. These are basically a mix of HCFCs but more importantly some have been augmented by methyl chloride (R40) which has been implicated in a number of explosions in compressor circuits. The Container Owners Association (COA) -an association whose members represent most of the wor...
