News - Fluorocarbons

06 November 2017 News

R-410A HEAT PUMP FOR HEATING AND COOLING AN ENERGY NEUTRAL GERMAN OFFICE BUILDING

A German company active in technical building services has designed its new head office building with a very innovative energy concept, combining photo-voltaic electricity generation, solar/air absorb...

05 November 2017 News

ASERCOM COMMENTS ON ISSUES REGARDING REFRIGERANTS COMPLYING WITH THE F-GAS REGULATION

ASERCOM (Association of European Refrigeration Component Manufacturers) has published a Statement regarding the choice of refrigerants in order to comply with the GWP upper limits of 2,500 by 2020 set...

04 November 2017 News

DEADLY AMMONIA ACCIDENT IN A CANADIAN ARENA DRAWS ATTENTION TO AMMONIA SAFETY

An ammonia accident in a British Columbia - Canada, arena took their life to three workers in charge of maintenance work. The accident has drawn attention to the risks of ammonia in refrigeration s...

03 November 2017 News

NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG NOVEMBER 2017

Logbook Update Our 2014 Logbook will be completely redesigned, adding new functionalities and updated with all the new blends. In order to fit your specific needs, EFCTC is conducting a survey and i...

03 October 2017 News

2016 : HFCs CONTRIBUTE UNDER 0.9 % TO ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GASES

The US NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has released its 2015 update of the AGGI (Annual Greenhouse Gas Index), intended to follow the evolution of the radiative forcing (ability...

02 October 2017 News

HFC BASED HEAT PUMPS PROJECT FOR AN ITALIAN SUSTAINABLE BUILDING RECEIVES AN INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

A R-410A heat pump project has received an “International achievement award” for incorporating an air conditioning system for its offices and production units within a company’s internal heating...

01 October 2017 News

CHANGES TO WORKING PRACTICES WITH THE USE OF A2L REFRIGERANTS

REFCOM, the British F-gas certification body, has published a technical bulletin “WORKING WITH LOWER FLAMMABILITY REFRIGERANTS”, as a number of HFC alternatives chemicals of blends are “mildly f...

30 September 2017 News

NEW HFO BASED PERFORMANCE SOLVENTS

New performance solvents based on HFO-1233zd(E) have been proposed for the European market. These technical solvents are used for cleaning electrical components or printed circuit boards, among others...

29 September 2017 News

NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG OCTOBER 2017

Welcome to www.fluorocarbons.org our new website, where you will find all relevant fluorocarbon information easily. We offer a "Learn About" section which includes : "Climate change, Global warming,...

05 September 2017 News

R-452A SELECTED BY A GERMAN CLIMATE CHAMBER MANUFACTURER TO REPLACE R-404A

Searching for an economical and safe alternative for R-404A (GWP = 3,922), a German climate chambers manufacturers has selected, after an extensive testing, R-452A (GWP = 2,140), a blend of HFC-32/HFC...

04 September 2017 News

HFC-134A CHILLERS SERVICING A BRITISH UNIVERSITY CAMPUS AND HOSPITAL COOLING NETWORK

10 MW of cooling duty have been added to the British Leeds Generating Station Complex (GSC) district cooling network servicing the University of Leeds campus and Leeds General Infirmary hospital. F...

03 September 2017 News

MONTREAL PROTOCOL EFFECT ON GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONSS REDUCTION SHOWN TO EQUAL HALF OF US GHG GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTION

Quantifying the impact of the Montreal Protocol on U.S. GHG (greenhouse gases) emissions with atmospheric observations, a new study has shown that, in terms of CO2-equivalent emissions, the emissions...

02 September 2017 News

PROPANE EXPLOSION IN A GERMAN REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSE

An explosion occurred during maintenance works in a German refrigerated warehouse refrigeration unit using propane as a refrigerant, during which the refrigeration unit was being emptied and purged wi...

01 September 2017 News

NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG SEPTEMBER 2017

NEW VIDEO "Refrigerant Gases Explained" ANOTHER NEW BROCK & OLLIE VIDEO “The F-Gas Regulation and the Kigali Amendment ”This new Brock & Ollie video explains the Kigali Amendment...

06 July 2017 News

HFO-1233zd(E) BLOWN INSULATING FOAM SELECTED BY THE DUTCH WORLDS SHIPPING CONTAINERS MARKET LEADER FOR ALL ITS NEW REEFERS

After trials with HFO-1233zd(E) as polyurethane insulating foam blowing agent had shown an improved insulation performance and a lower climate impact, thanks to HFO-1233zd(E) GWP of 1, a Dutch shippin...

05 July 2017 News

BRITISH BREWERY AFTER A FATAL AMMONIA ACCIDENT GETS AN HSE IMPROVEMENT NOTICE

A British Brewery has been issued with an Improvement Notice by the British Health and Safety Executive following a serious ammonia accident. The Improvement Notice issued against the company relates...

04 July 2017 News

HFC BASED CHILLERS FOR A NORWEGIAN BERGEN RAILWAY STATION OFFICES AIR CONDITIONING

For the air conditioning of the new Bergen (Norway) railway station offices, HFC-134a large size chillers and R-410A medium size chillers have been installed to deliver a cooling capacity of 1,200 kW....

03 July 2017 News

HFO-1234ZE(E)/CO2 CASCADE SELECTED FOR THE RETROFIT OF A CZECH HYPERMARKET

HFO-1234ze(E) and CO2 in a cascade configuration have been selected for the retrofit of a R-404A based system in a major Czech hypermarket. The customer requirements were a low GWP refrigerant, mil...

02 July 2017 News

NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG JULY – AUGUST 2017

WELCOME TO www.fluorocarbons.org OUR NEW WEBSITE, where you will find all relevant fluorocarbon information easily We offer a "Learn About" section which includes : "Climate change, Global warm...

08 June 2017 News

NOTIFICATION BY MEMBER STATES OF PENALTIES APPLICABLE TO INFRINGEMENTS OF THE F-GAS REGULATION : EIGHT STILL MISSING

In line with Article 25 of the EU F-Gas regulation no 517 (2014), the EU Commission has made public Member States notifications on national penalties applicable to infringements of the Regulation....

07 June 2017 News

LARGE BRITISH SUPERMARKET CHAIN CONVERTING 1200 STORES REFRIGERATION TO LOWER GWP R-448A

A large British supermarket chain has selected R-448A for the conversion of the presently used R-404A commercial refrigeration systems of more than 1,200 of its stores across the UK. R-448A (blend...

06 June 2017 News

GREENFACTS PUBLICATION ON THE EVOLUTION OF OZONE LAYER DEPLETION, ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Greenfacts, a non-profit project with an independent Scientific Board and a non-advocacy policy, has recently published online “The evolution of ozone layer depletion, its impact on climate change,...

05 June 2017 News

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FETA PUBLISHES GUIDANCE NOTE ON A2L (MILDLY FLAMMABLE) REFRIGERANTS

The British FETA (Federation of Environmental Trade Associations) has published a guidance document on A2L (mildly flammable) refrigerants, used in Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps . As...

04 June 2017 News

NEW ON FLUOROCARBONS.ORG JUNE 2017

Welcome to www.fluorocarbons.org our new website, where you will find all relevant fluorocarbon information easily. We offer a "Learn About" section which includes : "Climate change, Global warming,...