Bill Gates energy fund, which is also backed by a number of other heavy tech giants, has now made a substantial investment in the financing company. Climeon utilizes waste heat from, among other things, steel mills and cruise ships and converts it into electricity. It has also looked at extracting...
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Although heat and cold are of the same physical nature, they have played different roles in the history of human civilisation. Prometheus, the mythological hero who bestowed the divine fire of Olympus to mankind, is glorified in immortal works of art. On the contrary, to date, the pioneers who created...
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The 6th IEA HPT Annex 49 working meeting was held at the University Center of the University of Innsbruck in Obergurgl, Austria on February 25-27, 2019. It has been attended by the seven countries AT, CH, DE, EE, NO, SE and the USA. Due the vicinity of the site all...
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Dr. Yunho Hwang is a research professor and associate director of the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) in the United States. Today he is also the Operating Agent for Annex (project) 54 within the HPT TCP. The Annex aims at promoting low-GWP refrigerant application to accelerate phase-down of high-GWP HFCs...
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First they depleted the ozone layer, then they contributed to global warming, and now they might exacerbate fires. That is the history of refrigerant substances, in brief. And now the flammability of different refrigerants needs to be taken care of. The current phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) refrigerants is due to...
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Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in the 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference in Jeju, Korea. The Heat Pump Conference is the perfect place to interact with researchers, industry and market representatives, policy makers, all gathered around the topic; Heat pumping technology. About the 13th conference Energy and the environment...
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The Italian heat pump market is one of the largest in Europe. And it keeps growing. In recent years it has increased dramatically: with 23 % in 2015 and 46 % in 2016. As many as 97 % of the heat pumps use air as their energy source and the...
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On January 12, HPT Annex 54 (Heat pump systems with low GWP refrigerants) held their initial kick-off meeting at the Ashrae conference in Atlanta, GA USA. The event attracted representatives of the primary US research institutes involved as well as ANNEX participants. The meeting was arranged by University of Maryland...
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