Latin America
ABRAVA President Receives Oswaldo Moreira Trophy
On June 18, ABRAVA president Wadi Tadeu Neaime was awarded the Oswaldo Moreira Trophy for Person of the Year in the 2014 HVAC&R Sector. Wadi Tadeu Neaime, ABRAVA president and Climapress ma...
Fibracem Data Center Racks
Fibracem, a Brazilian company that specializes in optical communications, has developed racks for data centers that have passages for electric cables, cabling, and optical cables to minimize cooled air from the high-floor air conditioning escaping. The racks also have independent upper troughs, which allow the passage of optical cables and unshielded twist pair (UTP) cables. Connecting the racks i...
Trane Holds Seminar in Porto Alegre
Trane introduced its innovations in refrigeration systems at a road show for industry professionals held in southern Brazil. The event covered the TVR II VRF system, the future of refrigerants, and wi...
DuPont Performs Retrofit in Jundia Sorvetes
Jundia Sorvetes, an ice cream manufacturer based in Itupeva, Sao Paulo, performed a retrofit of one cold chamber and two compressors integrated into the production processes of its plant in Jundiai. T...
Danfoss Launches New Hydraulic Valves
Danfoss is starting production of balanced proportional hydraulic valves at its factory in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Previously, these valves were imported from North America and Europe. ...
Brazil support for HFC phase down
July 5, 2015 USA: The president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff has agreed to work towards phasing down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. The announcement follows last week’s meeting with US president Barack Obama in Washington and provides further backing for attempts to include the phase down of HFCs within the Montreal Protocol. A White House press statement announced: “The Presidents, r...
Brazil support for HFC phase down
July 5, 2015 USA: The president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff has agreed to work towards phasing down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. The announcement follows last week’s meeting with US president Barack Obama in Washington and provides further backing for attempts to include the phase down of HFCs within the Montreal Protocol. A White House press statement announced: “The Presidents, r...
U.S.-Brazil Joint Statement On Climate Change
June 30, 2015 Presidents Barack Obama and Dilma Rousseff commit to intensify collaboration between the United States and Brazil, both bilaterally and under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as our countries work to address the challenges posed by climate change. The global scientific community has made clear that human activity is already changing the world’s...
1.10.1 Brazil
Brazil is still experiencing an economic slump that shows few signs of recovery. Total GDP growth in 2014 was only 0.2%, which is lower than the 2.3% of the previous year. GDP growth in the constructi...
Thermal Comfort and Air Conditioning Systems
Professor Richard De Dear, director of the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Laboratory of the University of Sydney in Australia, gave three presentations in Brazil on a new method of behavioral research related to thermal comfort and artificial air conditioning in residential environments. The events took place in the cities of Florianopolis, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Professor Dear ...
