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15.09.2023
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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15.09.2023
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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27.07.2023
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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27.07.2023
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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27.07.2023
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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27.07.2023
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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27.07.2023
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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18.07.2023
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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15.06.2023
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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15.06.2023
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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15.06.2023
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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15.06.2023
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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15.06.2023
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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15.06.2023
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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13.06.2023
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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05.05.2023
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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05.05.2023
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...
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05.05.2023
Assessment of human health risks due to environmental exposures to TFA
A recently published hazard and risk assessment reviews the mammalian toxicity of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and human exposure to assess the margin of exposures (MoE) (see note 1). The publication is...
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05.05.2023
Trialogue negotiation on F-Gas Regulation: final text before the summer?
In an article for La Rpf – Revue Pratique du Froid, the AFCE (Alliance Froid Climatisation Environnement) suggested that a final text may emerge from the trialogue discussions before the summer, per...
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30.03.2023
EFCTC statement on European Parliament Plenary vote on the F-gas Regulation review
Following the European Parliament Plenary vote on the F-Gas Regulation today, the European FluoroCarbons Technical Committee (EFCTC) members released a statement available in the attached file....
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15.03.2023
Centrifugal chillers using HFC & HFO refrigerants designed for optimum performance
Centrifugal chillers have long service lifetimes of typically 30 years and offer reliability and performance efficiency. HFC and HFO based refrigerants are widely used due to their technical and safet...
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15.03.2023
An Inventory of Fluorspar Production, Industrial Use, and Emissions of Trifluoroacetic Acid (TFA) in the Period 1930 to 1999
An inventory has been published for the period of 1930-1999 accounting for most of the fluorspar production (86%) and estimating emissions of TFA. Industrial emissions of TFA are estimated as 230,000...
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15.03.2023
Scientific Assessment 2022: TFA Summary
The Scientific Assessment 2022 Report in its Executive Summary and Chapter summaries provides its current conclusions for trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) emissions and environmental effects. Some conclusio...
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15.03.2023
Global and European HFC reported emissions compared to emissions derived from atmospheric monitoring
The Scientific Assessment 2022 Report (SAP2022, available here) provides revised forecasts for HFC emissions and compares reported global and regional emissions to these estimated from atmospheric mon...