Winners Introduced for Decrease GWP Refrigeration, Air-Conditioning Innovation Awards

ASHRAE and UN Atmosphere Programme have introduced the undertaking alternatives for the 2023 ASHRAE-UNEP OzonAction Decrease-GWP Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Innovation Awards. The annual worldwide award program promotes revolutionary design, analysis and apply by recognizing individuals who have developed or carried out technological ideas utilized in creating international locations to advertise decrease world warming potential refrigerants by refrigeration and air-conditioning purposes.

The tasks in every class have been chosen based mostly on delivering options to satisfy refrigeration and air-conditioning wants by utilizing lower-GWP applied sciences. The choice standards included:

• Extent of want
• Revolutionary points in remodeling typical practices
• Technical replicability to creating international locations

Judges additionally accounted for financial feasibility when doable, contemplating that rising acceptance of recent applied sciences will favorably affect value and availability.

4 tasks have been chosen, all within the Industrial/Industrial Functions class:

• HC-290 (Propane) as an Various Refrigerant in Industrial Functions (Ecuador)

Mission Staff: Rodrigo Serpa, Fernando Del Castillo, Omarly Acevedo and Ana Correa

This chilly retailer undertaking used HC-290 as a substitute refrigerant in business purposes. The undertaking resulted in a 36% discount in vitality consumption and a 41% lower in whole equal CO2 emissions.

• Flammable Refrigerant Use in a Draft Beer Machine (Brazil)

Mission Staff: Eduardo Arjona Esteves, Lucas Cavalin, David Marcussi, Davi Telles and Roberto Cavalin

This undertaking developed a brand new warmth exchanger composition for draft beer machines, permitting using flammable refrigerants and enhancing cooling effectivity.

• Ammonia Use in Multipurpose Chilly Storage (India)

Mission Staff: Harshal Surange and Arvind Surange

The multipurpose chilly storage undertaking utilized a low-charge DX ammonia system with air-cooled condensers and digital enlargement valves, a primary of its variety in India.

• Propane Chiller Use in a Comfort Retailer (Brazil)

Mission Staff: Fernando Sayols Marchioro, Éder Paluch and Elielton Polityto

The undertaking includes the event of a modular low-charge refrigerant chiller utilizing propane as an HCFC substitute in business services in Brazil.

The chosen tasks have been introduced on the 2023 ASHRAE Annual Convention in Tampa, Florida. Chosen undertaking groups shall be acknowledged with the awarding of certificates at UNEP occasions held within the areas or international locations of the tasks.

For extra particulars, go to ashrae.org/ashrae-unep-portal.