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Refrigerant Demand Shrinks
Total demand for F-gases has been shrinking since 2007 according to records analyzed by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The period 2007/2013 registered a fall of around 8% in the ACR industries ? equivalent to reduction of 0.3% in global warming potential (GWP). The most widely used refrigerant is R134a at 39,000 tons in 2007 and accounts for a 52% share of the total. Source: cci Zeitung, G...
Heat Recovery Ventilation in Germany
Domestic sector mechanical ventilation packages with inbuilt heat recovery modules are becoming a high growth industry in Germany with 26,500 systems installed in the first six months of 2014 - a 12% increase on the same period in the year before. Around 1,500 of these were part of a heat pump system. Source: cci Zeitung, Germanycialiscialislevitraorder generic levitraorder generic levitralev...
IAQ Project for Offices
Sampling air quality and other environmental factors in new and recently refurbished office blocks in eight European countries has been the task of the Officair project set up by the research arm of the European Commission. Two of the most common complaints were that noise levels were too high and the air was too dry. Most of the million or so people involved were all working an eight hour ...
Atlantic Leads Heat Pump Market
Atlantic claims to be the number one supplier of air-to-water (ATW) heat pumps in France, second for air-toair (ATA) systems and fourth or fifth in line for VRF systems. ATW systems in particular now account for 50% of installations in new buildings in France and ATA systems 10%. Heat pumps are also becoming a popular replacement for electric radiators and convectors whose sales to new buil...
The End of R22
New year’s day was not a happy one for the several hundred thousand R22 installations still working in the United Kingdom. If they break down and lose refrigerant, it will be not possible to replace it even with recycled fluids. Although it will not be illegal to continue operating plant using R22, those most at risk from breakdowns will be where cooling is critical - such as in the health se...
Sharp J-Tech Series Debuts in Malaysia
Sharp-Roxy Sales & Service Company (SRSSC) launched its latest series of consumer appliances aimed at bringing more comfort and convenience to the homes of Malaysians while helping them save on ut...
Daikin Applied Ups the Ante with Trailblazer Air-cooled Scro
Heating and cooling commercial buildings account for significant amounts of energy consumption and related costs. When combined with the extensive use of air-cooled scroll chillers, the need for wide-...
Haier Launches Intelligent Thermostat Dreambox
Haier Dreambox launching conference was held on December 11, 2014, in Beijing, bringing the intelligent thermostat to users. Haier Dreambox focused on three aspects: intelligent, care, and heal...
New Low-GWP Refrigerant from AGC
At the International Symposium on New Refrigerants and Environmental Technology held in Kobe in November 2014, Masato Fukushima, Senior R&D Engineer at Asahi Glass Company (AGC), Japan, gave a pre...
Carrier Holds Data Center Solutions Seminar in Beijing
Data center proprietors, designers and industry insiders from across China discussed industry trends for building more efficient, greener and more secure data centers at a recent Green and Efficient D...
