Compressor giant «Emerson Climate Technologies» has certified a number of gas mixtures of HFCs for their compressors after the successful interoperability testing of materials, control checks and tests in actual operating conditions.
The company said that the new refrigerants with lower GWP factor can substitute existing refrigerants, such as R404A, R507A, R407A / F and R134a, which are commonly used in industrial refrigeration. In the future, R404A / R507A will gradually disappear from the market due to the forthcoming ban on the use of CFCs.
Dr. Frank Rinne director of application development company «Emerson Climate Technologies» in Europe, said: "It is important that our customers get tested, proven and viable alternatives to existing refrigerants which are gradually fading. To help our customers minimize resource constraints and costs associated with the transition to new refrigerants, we are working to certify products and equipment that will not only comply with existing restrictions, but also to those restrictions that will take effect in the foreseeable future. "
To help customers upgrade to the new products, the company said that among other things will publish corrections of recommendations and guidelines technical document on its website. Performance and range of new refrigerants Honeywell and DuPont are already available for the majority of semi-hermetic and scroll compressors «Copeland» with the utility «Select 7.11», the new version of Emerson Climate Technologies »Select Software, which was published in June 2015. Most of the semi-hermetic and scroll compressors" Copeland », has already taken out of production. However, the company «Emerson» is ready to provide full support to customers' requests.