News - Fluorocarbons

26 May 2019 News

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 l...

25 May 2019 News

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. S...

24 May 2019 News

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...

23 May 2019 News

European Fluorocarbon Producers Sponsor Illegal Trade Action Line – Press release translations

The EFCTC Press Release English version, published on 28 April 2019 has been translated into 5 other European languages. English version European Fluorocarbon Producers Sponsor Illegal Trade Action...

23 May 2019 News

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...

30 April 2019 News

2018 SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT OF OZONE DEPLETION UPDATE ON GWPs AND ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIMES FOR HFCS AND HFOS

The F-Gas Regulation 517/2014 references GWPs based on the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, unless otherwise indicated in Annex I. Use and placi...

29 April 2019 News

ILLEGAL TRADE ROUND-UP

Raising awareness of illegal trade and how individuals and can work to deal with the issue is an important step to reducing the illegal trade, but industry needs the wholehearted support of compliance...

28 April 2019 News

CHILLERS INCREASINGLY USE LOWER GWP FLUOROCARBON REFRIGERANTS

A range of HFC refrigerants are used for chillers, as these span a wide range of cooling duties, and use scroll screw and centrifugal compressors. Increasingly lower GWP refrigerants are being used in...

27 April 2019 News

IN BRIEF CHILLERS – UNDERSTANDING METRICS FOR TOTAL EMISSIONS

The total greenhouse gas emissions due to the operation of a chiller are the direct emissions of refrigerant and the indirect emissions due to energy use. The switch to lower GWP refrigerants for chil...

26 April 2019 News

NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG MAY 2019

New Publication EFCTC has published a one page leaflet on Illegal Imports of HFCs Find it here: https://www.fluorocarbons.org/home/the-broad-impact-of-illegal-hfc-imports-on-the-f-gas-regulation Ki...

28 March 2019 News

2018 SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT OF OZONE DEPLETION UPDATE ON TFA

There is increased confidence that trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) produced from degradation of HFCs, HCFCs, and HFOs will not harm the environment over the next few decades. This assessment is based on th...

27 March 2019 News

HFO INSULATION SPRAY FOAM SELECTED AS BEST GREEN BUILDING PRODUCT

An HFO insulation spray foam has been selected as the best green building product at the 2019 International Builders’ Show in the USA. As well as a non-flammable blowing agent with GWP 1 and thermal...

26 March 2019 News

HFC-32 HYBRID VRF HEAT PUMP AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM WINS SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Introduced in 2018 (see EFCTC Newsletter No159 July-August 2018) the Hybrid VRF has been awarded the Low Carbon Initiative prize at the Edie Sustainability Awards. It combines variable refrigerant flo...

25 March 2019 News

EUROPEAN COMPANY AWARDED MOST SERVICE FRIENDLY PRODUCT FOR HFO-1234YF MOBILE AC SERVICING SYSTEM

The use of 2 fluorocarbon refrigerants for vehicle mobile air-conditioning has the potential to lead to cross contamination of R-134a or R-1234yf. Almost 100% of new passenger cars sold in the EU use...

24 March 2019 News

ILLEGAL TRADE ROUND-UP

EFCTC Sponsors Illegal Trade Action Line. In response to rapid emergence of illegal traffic of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs- or refrigerants) across the European Union, and in order to assist the EU and M...

23 March 2019 News

IN BRIEF EIGHTY YEARS OLD INSTRUMENT STILL MONITORING OZONE IN THE ANTARCTIC

Dr Gordon Dobson, a University of Oxford physicist, became interested in measuring ozone in the stratosphere in the 1920s. His first spectrograph used a photographic plate technique, which was inconve...

22 March 2019 News

New on fluorocarbons.org April 2019

EFCTC Press Release: European Fluorocarbon Producers Sponsor Illegal Trade Action Line Log-book: The new Log-book is now available in several EU languages: English/DE/FR/ES/IT/PT/NL NEW...

25 February 2019 News

NEW MANAGER FOR EUROPEAN FLUOROCARBONS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (EFCTC) AND EUROPEAN CHLORINATED SOLVENTS ASSOCIATION (ECSA) SECTOR GROUPS

This month Angelica Candido started at Euro Chlor as Cefic Sector Group Manager for the ECSA and EFCTC Sector Groups. Previously she worked as a toxicologist for Penman Consulting, where she managed...

21 February 2019 News

EFCTC COMMENT ON THE F-GAS CHALLENGES TO ACHIEVE MARKET INTEGRITY

In our 2018 year-end review we noted three challenges for the HFC sector under the F-Gas Regulation - illegal imports, market bans for high GWP refrigerants and supporting recycling and destruction to...

20 February 2019 News

R-410A REPLACEMENTS OPTIONS VARY BY APPLICATION FOR AIR-CONDITIONING

R-32, a mildly flammable (A2L) lower GWP refrigerant, is widely used in the EU and Asia as an alternative to R-410A for residential and commercial air-conditioning ranges. However, other lower GWP mil...

19 February 2019 News

FREE COOLING REDUCES ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR R-32 CHILLER

Free cooling can eliminate the requirement for mechanical cooling when ambient conditions allow. For some systems mechanical pumping of the refrigerant or fluid is still required to achieve the coolin...

18 February 2019 News

HEAT PUMP TUMBLE DRYER USES LOWER GWP R-450A TO REPLACE R-134A

Non-flammable R-134a is widely used for heat pump tumble dryers providing reduced energy consumption of up to 50% compared to condenser dryers. A dryer manufacturer is replacing R-134a with non-flamma...

17 February 2019 News

IN BRIEF DETECTION OF SHORT ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIME REFRIGERANT GASES

Now that HFOs are becoming more widely used in the EU, very low atmospheric concentrations (typically below 1 ppt parts per trillion) can be detected . Background concentrations at end of 2017 for 3 H...

16 February 2019 News

NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG – MARCH 2019

REVISED AND UPDATED WEBPAGES: The Applications for HFCs and HFOs (including HCFOs) are being updated to take account of the increasing use of lower GWP fluorocarbon refrigerants. See : Application...