Articles Tagged with ''natural refrigerants''

The environmental nonprofit organization is focusing its efforts on promoting the use of naturals in supermarket and grocery store refrigeration.

The recent refrigerant delistings made under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program have made some customers — especially in the supermarket refrigeration sector — skittish about making a major investment in new refrigeration equipment.

eurammon, the initiative for natural refrigerants, and Eurovent, the umbrella association for European cooling manufacturers, are to combine their efforts to advocate the use of natural refrigerants.

As the HVAC industry faces increasing regulatory pressure, the effects of new efficiency and environmental standards are impacting compressors.

Embraco, a major manufacturer of compressors for domestic and commercial applications, has announced its technical training schedule for the 2015 AHR Expo taking place Jan. 26 to 28 in Chicago.

As 2015 begins, the end of new and imported HCFCs is in sight and phasedown and limits on certain HFCs seem more and more likely. So to continue to meet refrigeration needs, f-gas proponents turn to low global warming potential (GWP) HFCs and HFOs, while advocates of natural refrigerants continue to build their case.

This past year I was working on a story in which I asked contractors to comment on trends in refrigerants. I was doing so because so much of my writing in 2014 related to new directions for such gases. I start 2015 with the same theme: Continue to work with familiar refrigerants, but be prepared to shift to newer kids on the block.