Europe
DencoHappel Installs AHUs at Strasbourg Library
The National University Library in Strasbourg has been extensively renovated and is now equipped with DencoHappel air handling units (AHUs). The relative humidity inside France’s second largest library is maintained at 45 to 65% in order to optimally preserve the 3 million books and documents. Four geothermal heat pumps have been installed, and the water extracted from the ground is continu...
HFC Price Observatory Prior to INSEE Cost of Construction In
During the Sifa held in Paris recently, Snefcca trade federation presented a schedule governing the introduction of a refrigerant price index designed to monitor HFC refrigerant price hikes. During a plenary lecture on the implementation of the F-gas Regulation staged at Sifa, Claude Malley, vice president of Snefcca, confirmed that a specific index dedicated to HFC refrigerants from Instit...
CIAT Launches Ereba
CIAT has launched Ereba, a new packaged reversible air-to-water (ATW) heat pump equipped with inverter technology. The new model is ideal for heating and cooling single-family homes. Thanks to dual fr...
A Global Perspective
An analysis by the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) puts the number of ACR and heat pump systems in operation worldwide as around 3 billion units. Global sales are currently running at US$ 300 billion and the industry employs a workforce of 12 million. ACR installations account for 17% of the world wide consumption of electricity. Source: IIR, France cialis cialis levitra order gener...
Personalized Cooling Concept
Another idea to deliver cooling only where and when it’s needed comes from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Called Cloud Cast, it simulates the effect of a shower by directing a spray of fine water aerosols from ceiling mounted nozzles. The shower heads are located in the ceiling - for example in an office space - as part of an array of small diameter tubes whi...
Energy and Refrigerant Loss
The success in minimizing refrigerant losses in air conditioning and refrigeration (ACR) systems, both from pipework and from fluid handling and disposal, has made energy the most important factor in the carbon footprint of an ACR system. The choice of refrigerant solely on the basis of its low global warming potential (GWP) must be balanced against its effect on the overall efficiency of the syst...
Rooftop Market Soars in EMEA
The Eurovent survey records total sales of rooftops in 2014 as 67,000 units - 12% more than the year before. The Middle Eastern countries are the main buyers at 80% of the total with Saudi Arabia being the principal destination followed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Growth in these two countries was 35% and 7%, respectively. For Europe, the largest markets are in France, Spain, Turkey, and It...
Air Filter Market Stagnates
The market for air filters in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) zone stayed at nearly the same level in 2014 as in the previous year, averaging 1 billion Euro(US$ 1.09 billion) according to a Eurovent survey. Germany led the industry in the European market at 22% of the total followed by the four Scandinavian countries at 15%. France was in third place at 12%. Denmark and the United Kingd...
BIM - A Slow Take-off
Building Information Modelling (BIM) - hailed as the future computer- based design tool for coordinating mechanical and electrical services in building architecture - is not likely to meet the 2016 deadline set by the UK government for its use by heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and electrical systems designers. A recent survey found that over half the industry was ‘not full...
Dorin/Embraco Cooperation
Embraco (Brazil), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of semihermetic compressors for the refrigeration industry, will be marketing the range of semi-hermetics madeby Dorin (Italy) ? in an agreem...
