People not in the refrigeration business often think that refrigeration equipment produces cold air; in fact, the equipment is actually removing heat from air and leaving what’s left — the cold. When ...

A while back, I addressed the energy savings potentials behind a drain waste heat recovery heat exchanger. It has the potential of reducing energy consumption of residential applications by as much as ...

The pressure-enthalpy (P-H) diagram is a useful tool for refrigeration engineers and designers. It is also useful for service technicians. The P-H diagram is a graphical representation of the ...

Adsorption refrigeration systems and heat pumps are emerging as compelling alternatives to conventional vapour compression technologies, offering enhanced energy efficiency and environmental benefits.

In researching and writing about building products for our publication Environmental Building News over the past 20-plus years I’ve had an opportunity to cover some fascinating breakthrough products ...

A research team led by Prof. Li Bing from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with ...

TO RALLY public opinion against fluorine-based refrigerants, a German environmental group has recorded a car crash and staged a series of tests purporting to prove that a newly developed automotive ...

The 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol called for countries around the world to phase out substances that deplete the ozone layer, but many HVAC systems still use synthetic ...