RAC/PAC
Cyber Attack Risk for ACR Systems
A targeted attack from computer hackers who are capable of taking over control of centralized air conditioning and building energy management systems and embedding viruses is already a reality. Cyber security is a new discipline which has evolved to protect installations against this risk. Hugh Boyes writing in the CIBSE Journal instances some of the possible threats: altering control settings, in...
Defining Air Conditioning
The terms air conditioning and climate control have become an important feature of local and international energy regulations and standards in Europe. But as Prof. Achim Trogisch of the Dresden University of Applied Sciences (Germany) points out, the exact meaning of these terms can be critical when used in a legal context where correct interpretation is vital in deciding on whether a system confo...
Hitachi Air Conditioning Launches Aircademy Training Center
Hitachi Air Conditioning Products Europe announced the launch of its newly refurbished Aircademy training center in Maidenhead, Berkshire in the United Kingdom. Hitachi’s Aircademy has recently...
Samsung Innovative Triangle Body Design AC
On December 1, Samsung announced the launch of the new Samsung air conditioner (AR09HSSFAWK) engineered to deliver exceptional cooling, comfort and health benefits with a striking triangle body design...
Leveraging Branding for Long-term Growth
-- Interview with Takeshi Ebisu, Daikin Senior Executive Officer In September 2012, JARN interviewed Takeshi Ebisu, senior executive officer of Daikin, about Daikin’s acquisition of Goodman. Th...
Technological Review of Japanese Room Air Conditioners
Room air conditioner (RAC) shipments in Japan have topped 8 million units for three consecutive years. This is attributed not only to intensive heat waves in summer, but also to increasing recognition...
Ductless AC Wave
-- What Is behind Hitachi’s Strategy of Spinning Off Hitachi Appliances’ Overseas Business to JCI? The U.S. air conditioner market is seeing brisker business activity than other regions as the ...
Trane Improves Infrastructure and Lighting for Missouri Scho
Dec. 18, 2013 Administrators at Dunklin R-V School District, located in Herculaneum, MO, in suburban St. Louis, expect recently completed infrastructure and lighting updates to save nearly $27,000 a y...
Fuji Electric Introduces New HVAC Inverter for US Market
Dec 17, 2013 Edison, N.J. -- Fuji Electric Corp. of America announced that it has expanded its portfolio of low-voltage inverters with a new HVAC drive that will be available for shipment next month. The company said the new drive features a slim, space-saving design, real-time clock, embedded BACnet, and all other functions required to independently operate fans and pumps in air conditioning equi...
US: increasing use of air conditioning
11/12/2013 For the past 20 years, the use of air conditioning has increased throughout the US with the most pronounced increase being in the South, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Nationally, electricity consumed for air conditioning has increased 39% since 1993 and accounts for 14% of all electricity consumed. In the South, electrici...
Exhibitors rush to book places at the ACR Show 2014
9 - December - 2013 With just over two months to go before doors open, a flood of exhibitor bookings has confirmed the industry’s support for the ACR Show 2014, the UK’s only national exhibition dedic...
The importance of the Australian refrigeration and air-condi
06/12/2013 The Cold Hard Facts 2 report, prepared by Expertgroup for the Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, provides a detailed insight in the ref...
