The efforts by industry groups, compliance officials and NGOs are ensuring the scale and urgency of illegal trade in HFCs is now widely recognised and there is now a much better understanding of the measures and actions that are necessary to combat the illegal trade.
While R-32 is replacing R-410A in a range of air-conditioning and heat pump applications, R-410A still has an important role to play during the F-Gas phase-down of HFCs for some applications due to its technical and safety properties. This newsletter reports on R-410A heat pump applications, as a replacement…
Equipment manufacturer saves, in one year, 154 tonnes of R-410A by using recovered R-410A from operating installations, reclaiming it to the same quality as virgin R-410A and mixing it with virgin R-410a for use in VRV air-conditioning systems. With a huge potential of R-410A available…
In simple terms, direct GWPs are the warming effect of emitting 1 kg of a substance compared to 1 kg of CO2 over a specific time period usually 100 years. Substances with very short atmospheric lifetimes typically have direct GWPs that are very low (eg 1). Indirect GWPs for some substances, notably hydrocarbons,…
New resources and information about TFA: The new ‘LEARN ABOUT TFA For a wide range of information about Trifluoroacetic acid/acetate as a breakdown product of some HFCs and some HFOs’ is supplemented by the Brock & Ollie short video about HFOs and TFA and a revised
