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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...
Flammable Refrigerants
The new F-gas regulations, which have now become law, will ultimately drive the industry to the use of lower global warming potential (GWP) fluids and inevitably to those with some degree of flammability. R32 looks likely to become one of the principal players and Daikin in particular has already adopted it for a wide range of packaged air conditioning units. The industry had expressed doubts abou...
New Slant on SBS?
Sick building syndrome (SBS) had a serious impact on the air conditioning industry in 1990s and led to some buildings being abandoned or whole systems being reconfigured. No single agent was ever identified for the variety of symptoms being reported - at least 20% of a building’s occupants experienced such effects - but the general consensus was the lack of fresh air ventilation. Although the pro...
Mitsubishi Electric Further Bolsters Presence in Turkish Mar
Mitsubishi Electric announced on July 9 that its local subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Turkey has completed the integration of its former air conditioning distributor Klima Plus, acquired earlier this ...
Assessing Low-GWP, Mildly Flammable Refrigerants
Development trends of refrigerants with low global warming potential (GWP) is one of the hottest topics in the HVAC&R industry today. Some segments of the conservation movement tend to focus only ...
Trane First with 1233zd Centrifugal Chiller
Air conditioner manufacturers are working to quickly meet the revised EU F-gas Regulation. At the end of June, long-time centrifugal chiller manufacturer Trane (Ingersoll Rand) announced in France the...
Insulation Market Expected to Reach $67.16 Billion by 2020
18 July 2014 SAN FRANCISCO -- The global market for insulation is expected to reach $67.16 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research. Expansion in building energy efficient homes especially in the Asia Pacific and Latin American countries coupled with growth in the global construction market is expected to remain a key driving force for the market over the forecast period. H...
FETA celebrates 30 years
18 July 2014 The historic and glamorous Savoy Hotel in London provided the backdrop for a drinks reception to celebrate FETA’s 30th anniversary. The Pinafore Room interior is the oldest in the hotel, dating back to 1926, and it was used by Winston Churchill for the exclusive dining club that he founded in 1910. Photographs of many British prime ministers line the walls and a bust of W...
Maritime reefer trade in South America
17/07/2014 In 2011, reefer exports accounted for 12% of the value of total exports from the east and west coasts of South America, equivalent to USD 40 billion. Reefer trade is a rapidly growin...
AGRO Merchants Group In Charleston, S.C. To Upgrade Cold Sto
JUL 2, 2014 AGRO Merchants Group in Charleston, S.C. is upgrading a 121,000-square-foot cold storage facility to include 14,000 frozen pallet positions, USDA meat import and export inspection services and blast freezing cells. The facility will provide storage, handling and other value-added services for its import and export customers. Primus Builders, based in Atlanta, Ga., was selected to provi...
