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04.07.2017
HFC BASED CHILLERS FOR A NORWEGIAN BERGEN RAILWAY STATION OFFICES AIR CONDITIONING
For the air conditioning of the new Bergen (Norway) railway station offices, HFC-134a large size chillers and R-410A medium size chillers have been installed to deliver a cooling capacity of 1,200 kW....
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03.07.2017
HFO-1234ZE(E)/CO2 CASCADE SELECTED FOR THE RETROFIT OF A CZECH HYPERMARKET
HFO-1234ze(E) and CO2 in a cascade configuration have been selected for the retrofit of a R-404A based system in a major Czech hypermarket.
The customer requirements were a low GWP refri...
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02.07.2017
NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG JULY – AUGUST 2017
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08.06.2017
NOTIFICATION BY MEMBER STATES OF PENALTIES APPLICABLE TO INFRINGEMENTS OF THE F-GAS REGULATION : EIGHT STILL MISSING
In line with Article 25 of the EU F-Gas regulation no 517 (2014), the EU Commission has made public Member States notifications on national penalties applicable to infringements of the Regulation....
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07.06.2017
LARGE BRITISH SUPERMARKET CHAIN CONVERTING 1200 STORES REFRIGERATION TO LOWER GWP R-448A
A large British supermarket chain has selected R-448A for the conversion of the presently used R-404A commercial refrigeration systems of more than 1,200 of its stores across the UK.
R-448A (blend...
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06.06.2017
GREENFACTS PUBLICATION ON THE EVOLUTION OF OZONE LAYER DEPLETION, ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Greenfacts, a non-profit project with an independent Scientific Board and a non-advocacy policy, has recently published online “The evolution of ozone layer depletion, its impact on climate change,...
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05.06.2017
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FETA PUBLISHES GUIDANCE NOTE ON A2L (MILDLY FLAMMABLE) REFRIGERANTS
The British FETA (Federation of Environmental Trade Associations) has published a guidance document on A2L (mildly flammable) refrigerants, used in Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps .
As...
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04.06.2017
NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG JUNE 2017
Welcome to www.fluorocarbons.org our new website, where you will find all relevant fluorocarbon information easily.
We offer a "Learn About" section which includes :
"Climate change, Global warming,...
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12.05.2017
FRENCH REPORT ON REFRIGERANTS LEAK DETECTION SYSTEMS
The French ADEME has released an in-depth study on installed fluorocarbons refrigerants leak detection systems (Etude sur les moyens de detection de fuite des installations de refrigeration de climati...
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11.05.2017
R-452B SELECTED FOR A NEW LINE OF AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT FOR THE US MARKET
A new line of R-452B unitary air conditioning units has been introduced to the US market.
R-452B, a blend of HFC-32, HFC-125 and HFO-1234yf (67/7/26 weight %), having a GWP of 698, is a lower GWP a...
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10.05.2017
HYBRID VARIABLE REFRIGERANT FLOW AIR CONDITIONERS REDUCE THE QUANTITY OF REQUIRED R-410A
Hybrid Variable Refrigerant Flow (HVRF) air conditioners are a recent new development in the field of building air conditioning, reducing by 40 % the quantity of R-410A in the system and delivering a...
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09.05.2017
HELSINKI HFC-134A BASED DISTRICT HEATING AND COOLING PLANT GETS SIGNIFICANT EXPANSION
The Helsinki HFC-134a based District Heating and Cooling system has been expanded to become fully integrated by the addition of two new heat pumps delivering together 15 MW of cooling and 22 MW of hea...
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08.05.2017
New on Fluorocarbons.org – May 2017
Welcome to www.fluorocarbons.org our new website, where you will find all relevant fluorocarbon information easily. We offer a "Learn About" section which includes :
"Climate change, Global war...
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04.04.2017
R-410A HEAT PUMPS FOR A DANISH LOW ENERGY HOUSES PROJECT
R-410A heat pumps have been installed to supply heating and hot water for a Danish project of 75 houses, designed to be low energy and carbon neutral.
Houses were constructed in 5 clusters of 15 hous...
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03.04.2017
HFO-1234ZE HEAT PUMPS RECOVER DATA CENTER WASTE HEAT TO SUPPLY A LARGE FINNISH DISTRICT HEATING NETWORK
Two HFO-1234ze innovative and energy efficient heat pumps have been installed in Kikkonummi, Finland, to recover waste heat from a Ericsson’s data center to supply one of the largest Finnish distric...
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02.04.2017
R-448A REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS PREFERED TO CO2 FOR AN AMERICAN SUPERMARKET CHAIN
A R-448A commercial refrigeration system was chosen by an American supermarket chain for one of its new large supermarket.
R-448A has a moderate GWP of 1,386 and is nonflammable. With more that 50...
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01.04.2017
NEW LOW GWP HFOs AND HFCs REFRIGERANT BLENDS DEVELOPED AS SUBSTITUTES TO HIGH GWP HFCs
Research continues to develop solutions to replace high GWP HFC refrigerants, mainly R-404A (GWP 3,922 – Note 1), R-410A (GWP 2,088) and HFC-134a (GWP 1,430), under the F-Gas Regulation provisions r...
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16.03.2017
FLORENCE ART GALLERY HEATING ANG COOLING PROVIDED BY R-410A HEAT PUMPS
A contemporary art gallery in Florence has installed 2 multi-purpose R-410A based heat pumps for the simultaneous heating and cooling of its recent building expansion.
The heat pumps deliver 416 kW...
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15.03.2017
HFO-1336MZZ TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE HEAT PUMPS
Soon after having been proposed as a potential working fluid for high temperature heat pumps, HFO-1336mzz based heat pumps are presented by a Norwegian company, able to upgrade low temperature waste h...
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14.03.2017
US STUDY IDENTIFIES POTENTIALLY VIABLE CANDIDATES FOR SUBSTITUTING R-410A IN AIR CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT
A detailed study of candidate chemicals able to replace R-410A in small air conditioning equipment has identified, after screening a comprehensive database of potential candidates, 27 fluids that had...
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13.03.2017
HYDROCARBON GAS CONTENT RECOGNIZED RESPONSIBLE FOR A FATAL EXPLOSION IN AUSTRALIA
Investigation of a fatal explosion that took place in 2014 in an Australian hotel and caused the death of two maintenance workers concluded that the hydrocarbon content of a refrigeration unit had bee...
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12.03.2017
NEW ON OUR WEBSITE – MARCH 2017
www.fluorocarbons.org, EFCTC website, has been thoroughly renovated.
- Factsheets have been put together and became more informative LEARN ABOUT
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07.02.2017
HFC BASED ORC MACHINES SUPPLY ELECTRICITY FROM SAWMILL WASTE
A 150 kW HFC-based ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) machine has been installed to deliver uninterruptible power to a developing country sawmill, to which the electricity supply was not reliable enough.
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06.02.2017
SERVICING R-404A MARITIME REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS WITH R-407F
A global maritime industry group has successfully tested the addition of lower GWP R-407F (GWP = 1 824) to R-404A (GWP = 3 922) refrigeration systems.
Faced to the coming phase-out (note) of R-404A,...