AN UPDATE ON FLUOROCARBONS

HEAT PUMPS ADOPTING A RANGE OF LOWER GWP FLUOROCARBON REFRIGERANTS

Increased adoption of heat pumps will help to decarbonise heating. The majority of heat pumps use fluorinated hydrocarbons with R-410A being most widely used currently, but lower GWP HFC-32, HFO/HFC blends and HFOs all have an important role to play in the wider adoption of…

INNOVATIVE DISTRICT GROUND SOURCE SYSTEM USING HFC-134A HEAT PUMPS WINS INDUSTRY AWARD

A low-carbon renewable energy project retrofitted of HFC-134a ground source heat pumps into 400 flats in eight tower blocks in London. The project was named District Heating Project of The Year at the 25th annual H&V News Awards. This large shared ground loop array heat pump system installed a small HFC-134a ground source…

ILLEGAL TRADE ROUND-UP

Promising start for the Illegal Trade Action Line. The use of the Action Line is completely confidential and independently operated by a specialized consultant, but EFCTC has been informed about the level of activity on the Action Line. Over 50 submissions of reports about possible illegal trade activities have…

SCIENTISTS AT CERN EVALUATING HFOs FOR PARTICLE DETECTORS

The planned 3-year shutdown at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will enable repairs and upgrade the accelerator to be able collect more detailed data about fundamental particles in the universe. Some of the LHC’s detectors are filled with gas, including fluorocarbons to help particle detection. When particles collide, they ionize gas molecules,…

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 factors to consider for the emissions related to heat pumps.

The comparison with…

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 a good balance of safety and technical properties.”
Brock: “That is a pretty good summary, however, you seem to have a question about…