06.02.14
Institute for air conditioning, heating and refrigeration (AHRI) in Arlington, VA, announced launching the second stage of the Alternative Refrigerants Evaluation Program (AREP) with a low global warming potential (GWP).
Ecological problems occurred with the use of refrigerants with a high GWP challenged the scientists to determine low GWP refrigerants for such product categories as systems of commercial and household air conditioning, heating, thermal pumps and hot water heaters, dryers, ice generators and refrigerating equipment. To solve the task AHRI launched the first stage of alternative refrigerants evaluation in 2011.
The first stage of the program was completed in December 2013. On 16th of January 2014 AHRI presented results of the first stage at the conference Low-GWP AREP in New York.
The second stage continued with research in the spheres which had not been studied before. These were refrigerants under the conditions of high ambient temperatures, refrigerants in the applications which were not controlled in the first stage and new refrigerants not revealed in the beginning.
“This program is an excellent example of environment care in our industry,” said President and CEO of AHRI Stephen Yurek.
“Investigations executed in the second phase will extend the program to make it applicable almost to all the places on the globe,” he said.
Producers of commercial equipment in the industry of air conditioning, refrigeration and heating are willing to get an AHRI certificate. AHRI certification is a trademark which guarantees a reliable operation of the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and commercial cooling equipment. The products intended for the authorization are undergone with independent and meticulous examination annually to comply their parameters with the ones from the producer. Certification of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems as well as their performance allows customers to compare the products based on the independent performance examination.
Source: http://www.polel.ru
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