About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Asia 2015
published on 3 February 2015
16 pages
2 MB

Kuniaki Kawamara, Mayekawa’s executive director, explained the increasing government support for the usage of natural-refrigerants-based systems in Japan and gave us an overview of Mayekawa’s Newton industrial refrigeration system which uses CO₂ and NH₃.

About the speaker(s)

Kuniaki (Nick) Kawamura

 

Kuniaki Kawamura has a degree in Applied Physics from Waseda University, Japan. He has been working for Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd since 1973 for the development of screw compressors, screw expanders and heat pumps. In 2002, Kawamura became the Executive Director of the Japanese company.

Kawamura is the Vice President of  the Japanese Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (JSRAE) and he is the President of Commission D1, IIR. His main areas of interest include the development of NH₃ refrigeration systems with misible oil, as well as the development of CO₂ heat pumps and air cycle for low temperature applications.