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Advanced refrigeration and heat recovery system uses F-gases for UK world class ice centre
The refrigeration system for the new ice centre in London uses an advanced heat recovery system to harness waste heat to provide supplementary heating for the building as the energy source for the sno...
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High capacity compressors using F-gases designed for comfort cooling, extreme ambient climates and data centres
New oil free compressors using F-gas refrigerants offer high-capacity energy-efficient solutions for comfort cooling, intensive ambient environments, and data centre applications. The compressors are...
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Provisional agreement for F-gas Regulation raises some concerns with improvements also acknowledged
The announcement that the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have reached agreement in the 4th trilogue meeting has generated a wide range of positive and negative comments, i...
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EFCTC expresses concerns on implications of provisionally agreed revised F-gas Regulation, but welcomes improved enforcement measures
Brussels, 6 October 2023 – Following the publication of the European Commission’s legislative proposal to update the F-gas Regulation (No 517/2014) in April 2022, the European Parliament and the C...
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Hydrogen filling stations rely on F-gas refrigerants for process cooling and circulation chillers
A leading temperature control specialist recently announced the supply of another 36 equipment sets to a European producer of hydrogen filling stations. Each set consists of a process cooling unit, re...
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VDKF reports 1.12% average leakage rates from all plant types in 2022
In its current "Analysis of Refrigerant Emissions", the VDKF (Association of German Refrigeration-Air Conditioning Specialists) has evaluated information from over 238,000 refrigeration and air condit...
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Orgalim position and recommendations on proposed PFAS restriction
Orgalim represents Europe’s technology industries, comprised of 770,000 innovative companies from the EU’s largest manufacturing sector. In its position paper, Orgalim states that Europe’s tec...
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German industry groups: PFAS exemptions for F-gases required for refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps
In response to the PFAS restriction proposal, seven organisations representing the entire value chain of the German refrigeration and air conditioning industry – trade, plant engineering, manufactur...
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EFCTC prepares comprehensive response to PFAS restriction proposal
The wide scope of PFAS properties, their applications and use patterns inevitably resulted in the PFAS restriction proposal missing important technical information. EFCTC has prepared a comprehensive...
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A review of current understanding of HFC-23 emissions and contributing source processes
A side event (5th July 2023) at the Montreal Protocol 45th OEWG meeting in Bangkok presented new data on the atmospheric measurements of HFC-23 and sources of HFC-23 by-production and emiss...
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HFO-1234ze(E) used in Ireland’s First Low-Carbon District Heating Network
Ireland’s first low-carbon district heating network located in Tallaght, Dublin, is using a heat pump system with HFO-1234ze(E) as refrigerant. The system utilises waste heat from a nearby Amazon We...
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Effects of atmospheric degradation products from ultra-low GWP refrigerants
Ultra-low GWP (< 30) refrigerants include HFOs, HCFOs and hydrocarbons. The atmospheric breakdown and environmental effects of their intermediate and final breakdown products are summarised, inclu...
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Photochemical Ozone Creation Potentials (POCPs) for ultra-low GWP refrigerants
The photochemistry of ultra-low GWP (<30) refrigerants (HFOs, HCFOs and hydrocarbons) could impact air quality through formation of tropospheric ozone (O3) on urban or regional scales....
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2022: HFCs contribute 1.27% to climate warming influence of greenhouse gases
The US NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has released its 2022 update of the AGGI (Annual Greenhouse Gas Index), which follows the evolution of the radiative forcing (ability of a...
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The review of the EU’s F-gas Regulation: a legislative timeline
In 2020, the European Commission initiated the review of the F-gas Regulation which has been in force since 2015 and had been key to decreasing F-gas emissions and enabling industry to transition towa...
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EEAP 2022: TFA conclusions and uncertainties
“The Montreal Protocol has led to the replacement of ODSs with fluorinated chemicals, some of which can undergo degradation in the atmosphere to give TFA in various yields. TFA is known to have a lo...
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EEAP 2022: Human and environmental risks associated with TFA in the environment
Risks from exposure to TFA in terrestrial animals: EEAP 2022 described a report on the potential effects of TFA in mammals. “This was a report on the effects of exposure to TFA salts via drinking wa...
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EEAP 2022: TFA emissions until 2100 from HFCs and HFOs
EEAP 2022 and SAP 2022 have the same forecasts for the global generation and deposition of TFA, based on the assumption that that 50% of the future emissions of low-GWP alternatives are related to HF...
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EEAP 2022: TFA yields from HFCs and HFOs
EEAP 2022 reviewed the yields of TFA from individual compounds, estimated based on evaluations of the available literature. These are shown in the figure reproduced in part from EEAP 2022 . Error bars...
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EEAP 2022: How should TFA be regulated
Extracts from EEAP 2022 Chapter 6: More recently, a majority of a panel of experts agreed that “all PFAS should not be grouped together, persistence alone is not sufficient for grouping PFAS for th...
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Webinar on PFAS Universal Restriction Proposal hosted by EFCTC
On 23rd May EFCTC hosted a webinar on the universal PFAS restriction proposal and its possible impact on F-gases.
Presentations by the Norwegian Environment Agency, ECHA, EPEE and the fo...
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EFCTC response to EURACTIV article
Reacting to the recent article in EURACTIV “Key EU lawmaker: Europe ‘needs to stay ahead of the game’ on heat pump manufacturing”, EFCTC would like to emphasize that propane is not a ‘natura...
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Award winning industrial heating and cooling system based on HFO-1234ze(E) chiller
An inverter high efficiency centrifugal chiller using HFO-1234ze(E) as the refrigerant, which was specially developed for low-temperature use for brine specification models, is the heat source for a b...
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While most EU economic sectors saw emission increases in 2021, HFC emissions decreased
The EU National Inventory Report (NIR) for GHG emissions, published on the UNFCCC website, shows that total GHG emissions (including Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry, or LULUCF, and internationa...