ATMOsphere Network Paris - July 2014 |
Clémence Girard-Reydet, Events Manager at shecco, presented the company's activities and upcoming projects. shecco is well known as a publisher (R744.com, ammonia21.com, hydrocarbons21.com, R718.com, the GUIDEs) and as an event organiser (ATMOsphere Conferences and ATMOsphere Network meetings). The company is also providing business development services: shecco's policy and market analysts conduct market research, provide global analysis services and work on international projects in order to accelerate the transition to natural refrigerants and build awareness for the natural refrigerants industry. In the coming weeks shecco's Business Development Department will be launching a free database, shecco
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Klara Skacanova, Senior Analyst at shecco, provided an overview of government actions on HFCs in different regions around the world, including Europe, North America, and Japan. She highlighted that the interest in natural refrigerant solutions is growing and that ambitious policy action drives innovation and leads to increased availability and production capacities of natural refrigerant technologies.
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Darren Lacroix, International Sales Director at Advansor, spoke about market trends for transcritical CO2 systems across 16 countries. He focused on four specific trends: compliance with the EU F-gas Regulation, focus on energy cost, focus on first cost and more technology available, for example one system that can provide refrigeration, air conditioning and full heat recovery.
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Eric Delforge, Corporate Business & Policy Officer at Mayekawa Europe, spoke about industrial refrigeration applications using ammonia, CO2 and hydrocarbons and industrial heat pumps using ammonia and hydrocarbons. His presentation covered different technology trends, challenges faced when transitioning to natural refrigerants and legislative issues.
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Guillaume Grolier, General Manager at AHT Cooling Systems France, spoke about the company's quality management, environment management, safety & health management and social accountability. He presented AHT's ice cream cabinets, bottle coolers and supermarket cases and chests with hydrocarbons, highlighting temperature performance and comparisons of energy consumption and TEWI. He concluded that natural refrigerant technologies are the future proof options and R290 is the best alternative refrigerant for ice cream cabinets, bottle coolers and commercial freezers.
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