CO2 and propane (R290) will have a key role to play in the context of the HFC phase-down taking place in Europe under the EU’s F-Gas Regulation – and with this in mind, Emerson is putting together a diverse, “future-proof” portfolio to respond to evolving customer demand, Abhinav Barnwal, Product Manager Refrigeration and Marketing at Emerson Climate Technologies, told R744.com at the company’s MCE booth.
Emerson Climate Technologies is in the final stages of testing reciprocating compressors for CO2/ammonia cascade systems in its recently opened Helix Innovation Centre. The company expects to launch the new products in the coming months.
On 17 December last year, Emerson Climate Technologies, based in Sidney, Ohio, held a ‘soft opening’ of its 40,000-square-foot Helix Innovation Center at the nearby University of Dayton, with a grand opening scheduled for the end of April.
Target, Whole Foods, Sobeys and Ahold USA will be among those offering insights on sustainable refrigeration and store energy savings amid a period of rapid transition in North America.
At this year’s AHR Expo in Chicago, Emerson had their IPro Genius programmable controller on display. The IPro Genius controls high-pressure controls and bypass valves effectively to help maintain a constant flash tank pressure which is one of the keys to full efficiency when using a transcritical CO2 booster system and adds to the larger system to ensure optimal results for commercial refrigeration.
Carbon dioxide, which is making progress as a refrigerant in the North American supermarket sector, is also increasingly infiltrating its way into the industrial sector in cascade and secondary systems, which was evident at the IIAR (International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration) 2015 Conference & Exhibition, which took place in San Diego from 22-25 March.
Although in many applications natural refrigerants remained the ‘emerging technologies’ on display, leading companies like Mayekawa, CAREL, thermea. Energysystems and Itomic quickly turned their attentions to Korea to showcase their CO2 technology and share their success stories with R744.com.
Bringing you “everything natural refrigerants”, R744.com journalists were on site at the AHR Expo 2015 in Chicago, Illinois, from 26-28 January and had the chance to interview some key market players manufacturing CO2 solutions for heating and cooling applications.
At the 2015 AHR Expo, one of the world’s largest HVAC&R trade fairs, component manufacturers showcased small footprint transcritical CO2 technology; will North American convenience stores opt for these systems?
