Africa
J & E Hall Condensing Units Installed at Gambian Cold Store
J & E Hall commercial condensing units are playing a key role in an innovative refrigeration project in Gambia. Three Fusion Scroll units have been installed at a newly-built cold store and butchery complex. Two JEHS-0400-M3 units are helping the 36 m2 cold rooms to function at temperatures from 0°C to 2°C. The third, a JEHS-0750-L3, is operating in conjunction with a similar-sized freezer roo...
Mauritius: International Community Applauds Mauritius for Ef
06 May 2015 The Secretariat of the Multilateral Fund for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, in a statement issued recently, applauds Mauritius as the first developing country to adopt a training unit of non-polluting refrigeration for technicians. The Ministry of Environment, Sustainable Development, Disaster and Beach Management received a formal communication recognising Mauriti...
Daikin launch high-ambient R32 air conditioners
May 4, 2015 MIDDLE-EAST & AFRICA: Daikin has announced the launch of GCC’s first commercialised R32 refrigerant high ambient air conditioning system, an alternative refrigerant to R22 with zero oz...
UNEP produces HCFC phase-out guides
08 Apr 2015 KENYA: UNEP has produced two guides to assist article 5 countries in their phase-out of HCFC refrigerants. Article 5 countries were obliged to freeze baseline consumptions (2009-201...
Alfa Laval opens office in Ghana
10 Feb 2015 GHANA: Alfa Laval has opened a sales office in Ghana to meet the needs of the booming West African region. North Africa and West Africa were previously directly managed from France,...
Montreal Protocol ditches 2.2m tonnes of ODS
December 27, 2014 KENYA: Although over 2.2m tonnes of ODSs have been phased out by the Montreal Protocol, 640,000 tonnes of HCFCs are still to be eliminated. This and other interesting statisti...
Tunisia: refrigeration data
21/11/2014 Currently, the national cold-storage capacity in Tunisia is approximately 1,600,000m3. In 2010, the national park of goods transportation vehicles included approximately 3,000 refrigerated vehicles (or 0.85% of the total workforce) and 1,500 insulated vehicles. 25% of electrical consumption by the food industry sector is used to power refrigeration plants. The first...
African solar energy could power UK homes by 2018
22 October 2014 A new project could provide clean energy to more than 2.5 million homes, creating double the energy of UK’s nuclear energy output. TuNur is a 2GW solar export project in the Tunisian Sahara that will be connected to the European electricity grid via a dedicated cable. The project aims to produce almost twice as much energy as any of the UK’s current nuclear power plan...
Package units revolutionise ammonia refrigeration
09 October 2014 The new ammonia package refrigeration unit is to revolutionise industrial refrigeration. With a footprint of only 700 x 1800mm, the PAM package has a refrigeration capacity of 8...
Rwanda On Right Path in Protection of Ozone Layer
By Philippe Mwema Bahati The ozone layer, a fragile shield of gas, protects the earth from the harmful portion of the sun rays, thus helping preserve life on the planet. Ozone layer destruction can le...
