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Russia to ban disposables in bid to stop illegal imports
May 6, 2013 Russia: Following meetings earlier in the year the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has recommended that Russia bans the use of disposable refrigerant cylinders in line with the EU, USA, Canada and other developed countries. In a meeting with the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources it was recommended to initiate a ban on the use of disposable packagin...
Ice factory featured on Prince's Regeneration Trust website
May 6, 2013 UK: Fresh from being featured on the BBC tv programme Coast, the Grimsby Ice factory and the fight to save it is now featured on the website for the Prince’s Regeneration Trust (PRT). &nb...
Chinese customs success with illegal refrigerants
May 6, 2013 China: Reports from customs officers in the port of Ningbo suggests that Chinese authorities have had some success this year in intercepting export shipments of illegal refrigerants. Ningbo customs recently reported the interception of illegal exports of ozone-depleting R22 and R142b. The gases, currently part of China’s ODP phase-out agreements under the Montreal Protocol, requ...
AHRI Certification Achieve High Energy Star Compliance Rates
May 3, 2013 The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) said its 2012 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star compliance rates across eight product sections averaged 97...
HFCs Amendment to Montreal Protocol Proposed by North Americ
May 3, 2013 The United States, Canada, and Mexico have submitted a proposed amendment to the Montreal Protocol, seeking to implement a global freeze and phasedown of HFC production and consumption. This is the fifth year that the amendment was submitted, but in past years has failed to gain the necessary traction for adoption. The most recent version of the amendment cont...
Solar Reflective Device Can Cool Buildings in Full Sunlight
6 May 2013 Stanford, Calif. -- A team of researchers at Stanford University has designed a new type of solar reflective device that has the ability to cool even in full sunlight. Such a device could greatly improve the daylight cooling of buildings by reflecting sunlight away and back into space. A paper describing the device was published in Nano Letters. “People usually see space as a source of...
Building Automation Market to Top $43 Billion by 2018
6 May 2013 New York -- After years of steady but slow growth, the commercial building automation systems (BAS) market is experiencing a rapid period of change and investment, according to ABI Research. Traditionally, growth and adoption has been closely tied to new building completion but new entrants and new connectivity are driving greater investment. Over the next five years, ABI Research forec...
A lost decade for European natural gas?
Once-certain growth in demand withered away, but there are reasons to expect a resurgence 6 May 2013 This article appears in the Spring 2013 issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the Internationa...
Emerson Climate: Valves for CO2 refrigeration systems
? Pressure rating for EX valves up to 60 bar ? For CO2 subcritical systems ? Extension of product portfolio for natural refrigerants Aachen, Germany, April 22, 2013 -- CO2 is a well-accepted al...
Telkonet, Inc. Signs Strategic Partnership with Islandaire,
Collaboration Substantially Increases Market Concentration of Telkonet’s EcoSmart Wireless Thermostat & Energy Management Platform Milwaukee, May 6, 2013 -- Telkonet, Inc. (OTC BB: TKOI), developer of the EcoSmart energy management solution featuring Recovery Time? technology, has signed a strategic partnership with Islandaire, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing packaged terminal...
