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Refrigerants
LEFT: Engie Refrigeration chillers.
Engie plans worldwide Spectrum launch
ENGIE REFRIGERATION IS planning a world- wide launch of its Spectrum Water range in March, 2022.
Spectrum Water will be available as a water/ water heat pump for hot water temperatures of up to +68 degrees Celsius and as a water-cooled chiller for brine applications providing up to -10 degrees Celsius.
This will allow the refrigeration and heating specialist to reach new customers and areas of application, especially in the heating supply field.
As a heat pump, the new Spectrum Water is suitable not just for commercial and industrial heating applications, but also for integration into heat networks, district solutions and hous- ing development concepts.
CEO of the German company, Jochen Hor- nung, said Spectrum is an ecologically sustaina- ble alternative to boilers that run on fossil fuels.
“Our new Spectrum Water heat pump contrib- utes to the decarbonisation of heat generation,” he said.
Spectrum features innovative technology components, oil-free compressors with magnet- ic bearings, flooded shell and tube condensers,
an open-flash economiser integrated as stand- ard, and an intelligent Siemens S7 PLC providing outstanding energy efficiency, operational relia- bility and power density.
The oil-free machine design guarantees stable performance and efficiency throughout the sys- tem’s service life, along with low maintenance requirements.
Digital features will be available to increase user-friendliness and serviceability, among them the option of using smart control to oper- ate the machine from a mobile end device, and an integrated interface with the CoolCare re- mote maintenance software.
There will be 12 models in total. The Spectrum Water heat offers a heating capacity of 360 to 3,000 kilowatts for hot water temperatures up to +68 degrees Celsius.
The Spectrum Water chiller, also with 12 mod- els, offers a refrigeration capacity between 200 and 1,200 kilowatts for refrigeration applications in- volving brine temperatures to -10 degrees Celsius.
The machine can run on the low-GWP refrig- erant R-1234ze and the safety refrigerants R- 515B, R-513A and R-134a.
Advansor’s free online training modules are popular with technicians.
Refrigeration
technology course
ADVANSOR HAS CREATED eight modules in the English language covering the commissioning and servicing of refrigeration systems as well as the functioning and commissioning of heat recovery.
Advansor provides basic knowledge about CO2 as well as concrete ad- vice, guidance and best practices. Each module takes approximately one hour to complete and is free of charge.
The company’s aftersales director, Kent Lejsgaard Poulsen, said the on- line training courses are very popular and there are always plenty of reg- istrations.
"We only get positive feedback and the participants are especially happy that they can ask many questions directly to our technicians,” he said.
Different language modules will also be offered in German, Danish, French, Spanish and Swedish in coming months.
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Non-flammable alternative
to R134a
REFRIGERANT MANUFACTURER KOURA has unveiled a new low GWP re- frigerant that can be used as an alterna- tive to R134a in existing automotive air conditioning systems.
Known as Klea 456A the refrigerant has been developed as a lower GWP drop-in alternative to R-134a, suitable for application in the automotive after- market sector.
The volume of R-134a that can be legal- ly imported into the European Union con- tinues to decrease year-on-year, as a re- sult of the F-Gas Regulations.
The F-Gas target is to cut emissions by two-thirds from 2014 levels by 2030.
Klea 456A is non-flammable and has a GWP of 626 that is a 50 per cent reduction in GWP compared to R-134a.
Koura said 456A maintains the same cooling performance of R-134a.
Klea 456A has a GWP of 626.
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