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  • Low GWP refrigerants: previous and ongoing projects

    Published Dec 03, 2018

    "Refrigerants with low Global Warming Potential" is the title of the project carried out within Effsys Expand research program and supported by the Energy Agency together with a number of companies. ...

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  • Environmentally friendly refrigeration systems are needed to mitigate the climate change

    Published Sep 28, 2018

    The current EU regulations already address the environmental impact of refrigeration systems by replacing high GWP refrigerants with low-to-zero GWP refrigerants. Recent studies, however, show that th...

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  • Natural refrigerants in focus of the Gustav Lorentzen conference

    Published Aug 14, 2018

    The conference focusing on natural refrigerants was recently held in Valencia, Spain. An indication of the growing interest in natural refrigerants is that the conference attracted record numbers of p...

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  • Research focused on safe use of combustible refrigerants

    Published Jul 11, 2018
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  • Highlights from the conference on cold chain and refrigeration exhibition in China

    Published Apr 30, 2018

    We have recently attended the international conference ICCC2018 on cold chain and annual refrigeration exhibition CRH2018 in China. In this article we share the main impressions with focus on refriger...

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  • The effects of the F-Gas Regulation concern the heat pump industry

    Published Apr 30, 2018

    High GWP refrigerants are replaced by lower GWP alternatives on the European market. This is due to the reduced quotas (measured in CO2 equivalents), and increased demand (measured in kg). While the c...

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  • New F-gas regulation quota is in place. Are we on track to meet it?

    Published Feb 08, 2018

    The amount of the fluoridated gases, including synthetic refrigerants, should be significantly reduced during this year. This is requirement of the F-gas regulation that is known for years already. Wi...

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  • This happened in refrigerant development during the past year

    Published Feb 07, 2018

    The Swedish refrigeration industry is in a transition phase to new refrigerants and refrigeration systems. In this article we will highlight the most relevant events that occurred in 2017, which will ...

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  • F-gases: do we know what they are?

    Published Feb 07, 2018

    You are certainly aware of the so called F-gas regulation and its effect it already has on refrigeration industry. In this article we review which F-gases are regulated by the F-gas regulation. But fo...

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  • Emissions of fluorinated gases and their emission reduction

    Published Jan 09, 2018

    The reduction of fluorinated gases (F-gases) emissions is agreed in entire world and in the EU there are strong requirements for such reduction within F-gas regulation. From the beginning of 2018 the ...

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