DEVELOPMENTS IN NEW COMPONENTS AND APPLICATIONS FOR NATURAL REFRIGERANTS IN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL HEATING AND COOLING

摘要

New equipment for use with natural refrigerants is developed in response to market needs and technologyrntrends. Many factors influence developments in the refrigeration industry across its many differentrnapplications and sectors. These factors include among others legislation, energy prices (driving the need forrnenergy efficiency for both cost and CO2 emissions reduction purposes), end user customer policies, thernenvironmental lobby, the RAC industry lobby (and particularly the refrigerant gas manufacturers). Thisrnpaper considers some of the new developments in refrigeration equipment from a large manufacturer such asrnGEA in response to these driving factors and the direction of these developments in the future.