Currently heat pump manufacturers are mainly focusing on cost reductions and sustainable refrigerants. In the project “LC150” (Low Charge 150 g), the Fraun-hofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE ...

Scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute ISE and a consortium of heat pump manufacturers have achieved a new efficiency record in their development of a low-refrigerant propane refrigeration ...

While it might be fair to say that there is no such thing as a typical supermarket refrigeration system, there are commonalities between all systems that employ multiplex compressor racks. It is ...

[Editor’s note: Talk continues about using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a refrigerant in refrigeration systems. Among its strongest advocate is Eurammon, a joint European initiative of companies, ...

A recently filed patent (Publication Number: US20230296299A1) describes a refrigeration cycle apparatus that includes a unique filter member designed to capture acid contained in the refrigerant. The ...

Solid-state cooling pushes ahead further with the use of higher-performance materials compatible with standard production processes.

In an upgrade of its Ultra and Extra series trailer units, Carrier Transicold boosts the refrigeration performance available to truckload carriers and wholesale grocery distributors. The two single ...

Heat pumps are a key technology in the heat transition, but many of the devices still use environmentally harmful refrigerants. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has now developed ...

Andrew Gigiel of the Food Refrigeration and Process Engineering Research Centre has been looking at ways to make domestic refrigerators more energy-efficient. About one billion refrigerators and ...

One of the great inventions of our time — in terms of its social impact and influence on the health care and food preservation industries — refrigeration equipment is everywhere, from hotels, ...

Niles, Ill.-based Thermal Care Inc. introduced a new industrial product to its Accuchiller line this year and had the entire brand of standard water‐cooled portable, packaged and central chillers ...

Article 440 applies to electrically driven air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment. The rules in this Article add to, or amend, the rules in Art. 430 and other Articles in the NEC [440.3(A)]. A ...