USA
Energy Efficiency Upgrades to Save Pueblo Schools More Than
20 August 2015 PUEBLO, Colo. - Pueblo City Schools D60, in partnership with McKinstry, has begun implementing energy savings measures that will save the district more than $14 million in energy and operational savings over the next 20 years. The project will pay for itself through reduced utility and operational costs and will improve the educational environment for students, teachers, and staff. ...
Three New York Facilities Reduce Cost of Operations with CHP
20 August 2015 SYRACUSE, FEURA BUSH, and ONTARIO, N.Y. - Three New York facilities in different industries will be saving money and reducing emissions with the installation of Capstone combined heat and power (CHP) turbine systems from GEM Energy. Syracuse VA Medical Center in Syracuse, New York; Owens Corning’s Delmar insulation plant in Feura Bush, New York; and Harbec Inc.’s plastics man...
Magnetic Refrigeration Market Worth $315.7 Million by 2022
20 August 2015 CHICAGO - The global magnetic refrigeration market is forecast to reach $315.7 million by 2022, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 98.7 percent between 2017 and 2022, according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets. Increasing concerns regarding the use of refrigerants that are ozone depleting and have a high global warming potential (...
CIO Magazine honors Johnson Controls with CIO 100 Award
Category management solution key to customer success MILWAUKEE-August 20, 2015-Johnson Controls was honored by IDG’s CIO magazine as a recipient of the 2015 CIO 100 Award. The 28th annual award progra...
Alternative Refrigerants for Low-temp Applications
The hydrof luorocarbon (HFC) R404A, which has zero ozone depletion potential (ODP), is widely used as refrigerant in low-temperature applications. R404A’s global warming potential (GWP), however, is q...
US: intensification of research on refrigerant flammability
18/08/2015 AHRI has set up a subcommittee to conduct a review of the safety issues around mildly flammable refrigerants, to complete the necessary research, and share the results with regulators and standard developers. With the growing use of A2L “mildly flammable” refrigerants (notably HFC-32, HFO-1234yf and HFO-1234zeE), further research is needed in order to provide scientific results n...
Embraco webinar reveals the substitution value of hydrocarbo
19 August 2015 What makes an ideal refrigerant? Hosted by RSES and navigated by Embraco’s John Prall, ‘Refrigeration 101’ is a crash course on the refrigeration cycle and the various parameter...
Case Study Series Demonstrates Value of Energy Efficiency Re
19 August 2015 WASHINGTON - Nearly five years ago the large-scale energy efficiency renovation of the Empire State Building in New York City captured the attention of both energy efficiency advocates and the building industry. The $1 billion project was projected to save 38 percent of the iconic building’s energy and $4.4 million in energy costs annually. ? Valuing Energy Efficiency, a new series ...
Under EPA Settlement, Cold Storage Warehouse to Improve Safe
19 August 2015 BOSTON - A Chicopee, Massachusetts, cold storage warehouse that utilizes ammonia refrigeration is spending more than half a million dollars, primarily on public safety enhancements, to resolve claims it violated the federal Clean Air Act’s chemical release prevention requirements in its handling of ammonia at the facility. In an agreement with the New England office of the U....
R32 performs well in drop-in test
Aug. 18, 2015 USA: The lower GWP refrigerant R32 is said to have shown similar performance to R410A in drop-in tests on a single-package vertical heat pump. Part of the AHRI’s Low-GWP Alternati...
