End users and manufacturers of natural refrigerant systems are taking a variety of approaches to fill the training void – with better training for customers’ in-house technicians and maintenance contractors identified as particularly crucial.
In the inaugural edition of Accelerate Europe, one of the world’s largest retail and wholesale companies, METRO AG, has made natural refrigerants an integral part of its trailblazing environmental sustainability strategy.
Matador Refrigeration completed the installation at the President Hyper Vaal store in Vereeniging, South Africa, using technology from CAREL SA. The project includes the biggest subcritical CO2 cascade refrigeration system in Southern Africa.
After one year of operation in Gimo, Sweden, the first ice rink in Europe cooled purely with CO2 technology is significantly reducing energy consumption and showing the huge potential of R744 to revolutionise the ice rink industry.
At about the same time in late September, about 80 miles apart, two of North America’s primary training organisations—the Refrigerating Engineers & Technicians Association (RETA) and the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES)—held their annual conferences.
A new store recently open in Murcia, Spain combines CO2 and hydrocarbon (R290) refrigeration systems; solutions becoming common practice in the food retail sector as natural refrigerants help address the Spanish f-gas tax.
In November’s special training edition of Accelerate America, AAA Refrigeration Service talked about stepping up its training programme to encompass CO2 technology to meet the needs of supermarkets installing transcritical and cascade refrigeration systems.
The municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, is now home to the second ice rink in the nation using CO2, again with Hillphoenix’s advanced system, following the first conversion at the Harry J. McDonald Recreational Center earlier this year
At Supermercados Hiber, energy efficiency and environment are key players in the company’s decisions. In 2012, Hiber had the first store in Spain using only CO2 as refrigerant and in 2014 made history with the first Spanish urban CO2 transcritical store.
The Japanese compressor maker behind Coca-Cola’s global conversion to CO2 vending machines and coolers, Sanden is gearing up production in China to support other end users of the natural refrigerant
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