At the Plenary Session of the ASHRAE Winter Conference on January 28, Gerald C. Groff received the John. F. James International Award. In addition to being a Fellow ASHRAE and Life Member, Gerald C. Groff was very active for a long time within the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme on Heat...
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Nominate candidates for the Rittinger award. The deadline for nominations is the 1st of March 2017. The HPT TCP seeks candidates for the Rittinger award, which recognizes deserving individuals or teams who have achieved distinction in the advancement of heat pumping technologies, applications, market development and management or organization of...
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HPC has now received the letter of confirmation for Switzerland's joining of HPT TCP Annex 48 - "Industrial Heat Pumps, Second Phase". The effort for Switzerland will be led by Prof. Dr. François Maréchal of EPFL.
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You can now follow HPT TCP as @HeatPumpingTech on twitter.
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Regulations relating to environmental issues include refrigerant regulations and energy-saving regulations as well as environmental regulations such as hazardous substances regulations. And if history is any indication, regulations and policies that are first adopted by the remarkably environment-conscious European Union (EU) are either completely or at least partially incorporated by...
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At the International Symposium on New Refrigerants and Environmental Technology 2016 (Kobe Symposium 2016), organized by Japan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry Association (JRAIA) in December, a number of research findings were presented. Among these findings, of particular interest was an announcement of the results of five years of activity...
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The European Commission sees current flammable refrigerant standards as a barrier to low GWP alternatives and recommends that these should be urgently addressed. The new Commission report is based on responses from 24 member states and is due to be published on January 1. It concludes that flammable refrigerant standards...
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A number of common refrigerants, including R134a, R410A and R407C, will be banned from use in new chillers in the USA from January 1, 2024. The bans are one of a number of changes to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Significant New Alternatives Policy programme (SNAP) regulations, published today in...
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