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Carrier to Protect Sistine Chapel
Carrier is to supply a new air conditioning system for the Sistine Chapel to help protect Michelangelo’s 16th century frescoes against deterioration. Described as groundbreaking, Carrier’s solu...
Kobe Symposium 2014 to Focus on Low-GWP Refrigerants and App
The Japan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry Association (JRAIA) will organize the International Symposium on New Refrigerants and Environmental Technology 2014 (Kobe Symposium) on November 2...
North American AC Market to Grow to US$ 52.56 Billion by 202
North American air conditioning market would grow to US$ 52.56 billion by 2020, said Grand View Research in its latest research report. Continuously growing construction industry is pushing sales of air conditioners in residential, commercial, and industrial markets. Monitoring measures on energy efficiency will also accelerate the market growth in the next six years. Advance in technologie...
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Trends in ATA Heat Pumps
In a relatively stable overall market in France for air-to-air (ATA) heat pumps, sales of small units (less than 5 kW) are becoming a significant growth sector. The main reason, according to Jean-Philippe Fondeville of Hitachi, is the reduced energy demand of new residential buildings - a consequence of the much higher standards of insulation and air tightness. Owners are also looking for the best...
New Design Chilled Display
A technique of using multiple air curtains to prevent spillage from open fronted chilled display cabinets, developed by Adande Refrigeration in the United Kingdom, is said to give free access with an energy demand comparable with door-fronted cabinets. The concept relies on having separate air curtains for each ‘cell’ of the cabinet and this reduces spillage as well as the cooling load. Having les...
Record Performance for ebm-papst
Family-owned German fan and motor manufacturer ebm-papst reports a turnover of 1.5 billion Euro for the year ended March 31, 2014 - a growth of 11.2% compared with the previous year. The company ...
Star Refrigeration in U.S.
The UK’s Star Refrigeration has opened a subsidiary Azane Inc. in San Francisco to act as a base for the North American industrial refrigeration market. Azane will manufacture a range of so-called ‘low-charge ammonia’ units intended to replace former R22 applications. Demand from the food industry is expected to develop rapidly as the vast stock of R22 installations becomes unworkable. Low charge ...
Residual Refrigerant Study
When ACR plant is finally shut down or scrapped, how much refrigerant fluid remains? This is a question examined in the final report from the Institut fur Luft- und Kaltetechnik (ILK) in Dresden, Germany (see JARN May 2014 for details of the first report which looked at the distribution and leakage rates of refrigerants in 69,000 installations). This final study involved over 4,000 installations o...
