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24.05.2019
IN BRIEF HEAT PUMPS – UNDERSTANDING METRICS FOR TOTAL EMISSIONS
Depending on the refrigerant used the level of benefit from using a heat pump is at least about an order of magnitude greater than the emissions associated with refrigerant loss. There are three main...
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23.05.2019
European Fluorocarbon Producers Sponsor Illegal Trade Action Line – Press release translations
The EFCTC Press Release English version, published on 28 April 2019 has been translated into 5 other European languages.
English version
European Fluorocarbon Producers Sponsor Illegal Trade Action...
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23.05.2019
NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG JUNE 2018
New Brock & Ollie short video about HFOs and TFA. Ollie
Ollie: “Brock, you told me that HFOs are great refrigerants with very low global warming potentials, very short atmospheric lifetimes and...
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30.04.2019
2018 SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT OF OZONE DEPLETION UPDATE ON GWPs AND ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIMES FOR HFCS AND HFOS
The F-Gas Regulation 517/2014 references GWPs based on the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, unless otherwise indicated in Annex I. Use and placi...
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29.04.2019
ILLEGAL TRADE ROUND-UP
Raising awareness of illegal trade and how individuals and can work to deal with the issue is an important step to reducing the illegal trade, but industry needs the wholehearted support of compliance...
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28.04.2019
CHILLERS INCREASINGLY USE LOWER GWP FLUOROCARBON REFRIGERANTS
A range of HFC refrigerants are used for chillers, as these span a wide range of cooling duties, and use scroll screw and centrifugal compressors. Increasingly lower GWP refrigerants are being used in...
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27.04.2019
IN BRIEF CHILLERS – UNDERSTANDING METRICS FOR TOTAL EMISSIONS
The total greenhouse gas emissions due to the operation of a chiller are the direct emissions of refrigerant and the indirect emissions due to energy use. The switch to lower GWP refrigerants for chil...
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26.04.2019
NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG MAY 2019
New Publication
EFCTC has published a one page leaflet on Illegal Imports of HFCs Find it here:
https://www.fluorocarbons.org/home/the-broad-impact-of-illegal-hfc-imports-on-the-f-gas-regulation
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16.04.2019
Press release – EFCTC response to EIA report on the illegal import of HFCs into the European Union
The European FluoroCarbons Technical Committee welcomes the report by the Environmental Investigation Agency on the illegal import of HFCs into the European Union. This report complements the work tha...
09.04.2019
EPEE AGM discusses the potential of Heating & Cooling in the EU’s pathway to decarbonisation
Brussels, 3 April 2019:The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the European Partnership for Energy and the environment (EPEE) had again a very busy agenda....
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28.03.2019
2018 SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT OF OZONE DEPLETION UPDATE ON TFA
There is increased confidence that trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) produced from degradation of HFCs, HCFCs, and HFOs will not harm the environment over the next few decades. This assessment is based on th...
28.03.2019
European Fluorocarbon Producers Sponsor Illegal Trade Action Line
In response to rapid emergence of illegal traffic of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs- or refrigerants) across the European Union, the European trade association of fluorocarbon producers has launched a progr...
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27.03.2019
HFO INSULATION SPRAY FOAM SELECTED AS BEST GREEN BUILDING PRODUCT
An HFO insulation spray foam has been selected as the best green building product at the 2019 International Builders’ Show in the USA. As well as a non-flammable blowing agent with GWP 1 and thermal...
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26.03.2019
HFC-32 HYBRID VRF HEAT PUMP AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM WINS SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
Introduced in 2018 (see EFCTC Newsletter No159 July-August 2018) the Hybrid VRF has been awarded the Low Carbon Initiative prize at the Edie Sustainability Awards. It combines variable refrigerant flo...
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25.03.2019
EUROPEAN COMPANY AWARDED MOST SERVICE FRIENDLY PRODUCT FOR HFO-1234YF MOBILE AC SERVICING SYSTEM
The use of 2 fluorocarbon refrigerants for vehicle mobile air-conditioning has the potential to lead to cross contamination of R-134a or R-1234yf. Almost 100% of new passenger cars sold in the EU use...
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24.03.2019
ILLEGAL TRADE ROUND-UP
EFCTC Sponsors Illegal Trade Action Line. In response to rapid emergence of illegal traffic of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs- or refrigerants) across the European Union, and in order to assist the EU and M...
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23.03.2019
IN BRIEF EIGHTY YEARS OLD INSTRUMENT STILL MONITORING OZONE IN THE ANTARCTIC
Dr Gordon Dobson, a University of Oxford physicist, became interested in measuring ozone in the stratosphere in the 1920s. His first spectrograph used a photographic plate technique, which was inconve...
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22.03.2019
New on fluorocarbons.org April 2019
EFCTC Press Release:
European Fluorocarbon Producers Sponsor Illegal Trade Action Line
Log-book:
The new Log-book is now available in several EU languages:
English/DE/FR/ES/IT/PT/NL
NEW...
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25.02.2019
NEW MANAGER FOR EUROPEAN FLUOROCARBONS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (EFCTC) AND EUROPEAN CHLORINATED SOLVENTS ASSOCIATION (ECSA) SECTOR GROUPS
This month Angelica Candido started at Euro Chlor as Cefic Sector Group Manager for the ECSA and EFCTC Sector Groups. Previously she worked as a toxicologist for Penman Consulting, where she managed...
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21.02.2019
EFCTC COMMENT ON THE F-GAS CHALLENGES TO ACHIEVE MARKET INTEGRITY
In our 2018 year-end review we noted three challenges for the HFC sector under the F-Gas Regulation - illegal imports, market bans for high GWP refrigerants and supporting recycling and destruction to...
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20.02.2019
R-410A REPLACEMENTS OPTIONS VARY BY APPLICATION FOR AIR-CONDITIONING
R-32, a mildly flammable (A2L) lower GWP refrigerant, is widely used in the EU and Asia as an alternative to R-410A for residential and commercial air-conditioning ranges. However, other lower GWP mil...
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19.02.2019
FREE COOLING REDUCES ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR R-32 CHILLER
Free cooling can eliminate the requirement for mechanical cooling when ambient conditions allow. For some systems mechanical pumping of the refrigerant or fluid is still required to achieve the coolin...
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18.02.2019
HEAT PUMP TUMBLE DRYER USES LOWER GWP R-450A TO REPLACE R-134A
Non-flammable R-134a is widely used for heat pump tumble dryers providing reduced energy consumption of up to 50% compared to condenser dryers. A dryer manufacturer is replacing R-134a with non-flamma...
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17.02.2019
IN BRIEF DETECTION OF SHORT ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIME REFRIGERANT GASES
Now that HFOs are becoming more widely used in the EU, very low atmospheric concentrations (typically below 1 ppt parts per trillion) can be detected . Background concentrations at end of 2017 for 3 H...