
Alfa Laval to Develop First Heat Exchanger Using Fossil-Free Steel
The Swedish manufacturer aims to make the unit, which will use hydrogen-reduced steel, by 2023.
The Swedish manufacturer aims to make the unit, which will use hydrogen-reduced steel, by 2023.
The label is designed to address the growing market demand for a way to qualify, identify and celebrate the best natural refrigerant companies and products.
Decisive action on short-lived climate pollutants such as HFCs is found essential to limit global warming in the next 25 years, with only decarbonization policies yielding results in the long run and overshooting targets in the near term.
Cooling-as-a-service promotes the adoption of future-proof solutions like natural refrigerants as they are ‘less likely to become obsolete with increasingly stringent regulations.’
Refrigerants like HCFCs, HFCs and HFOs have been added to the Environmental Investigation Agency’s Global Environmental Crime Tracker, which details smuggling and trafficking hotspots.
The online event featured 19 webinars, which garnered more than 8,000 global views on multiple platforms and 52,000 impressions on social media.
The rapid phase-down of high-GWP HFCs is possible because of their extensive replacement by commercially available low-GWP alternatives, says the International Panel on Climate Change.
This was the conclusion drawn by Dorin’s Giacomo Pisano during a presentation on industrial refrigeration.
The free ‘Natural Refrigerants: State of the Industry 2022’ report will launch in time for Chillventa and cover refrigeration and heat pumps in the commercial and industrial sectors.
The global online event, free to attend March 30-31, will cover key market and policy trends and new technologies using natural refrigerants.