Page 14 - Climate Control News - July 2018

World News
Chemours and Arkema ink XP40 deal
A 37 PER cent reduction under the 2018 F- Gas phasedown has forced the Chemours Company and Arkema to sign a distribution deal to increase the availability of XP40 (R- 449A) in the European Union.
High demand for low Global Warming Po- tential (GWP) alternatives to replace legacy products such as R-404A and R-507A has seen gas shortages emerge throughout the EU.
Opteon XP40, better known as R449A, is one of the leading retrofit gases for R404A/ R507, particularly in the supermarket refrig- eration sector.
Arkema will sell the refrigerant under its own brand as Forane 449A (XP40).
Vice president of Chemours Fluoro- chemicals, Diego Boeri, said XP40 is cur- rently the refrigerant of choice among leading supermarkets, retailers, contrac- tors, distributors and end-users in the EU for retrofit and new equipment.
“We are pleased to be able to expand the ac- cess of XP40 in the EU market via Arkema, an- other leading supplier of fluorochemical re- frigerants,” Boeri said.
”Since 2015, XP40 has played a critical role in allowing the market to comply with the F- Gas Regulation.
“We are committed to continuing to help the industry succeed under the F-Gas Regula- tion while enabling customers and the mar- ketplace to ensure business continuity.”
Arkema will sell the refrigerant under its own brand as Forane 449A.
MICROSOFT IS LEVERAGING submarine technology for the second phase of its moonshot to develop self-sufficient underwater data cen- tres that can deliver lightning-quick cloud ser- vices to coastal cities.
An experimental, shipping container size pro- totype is processing workloads on the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Microsoft an- nounced last month.
The deployment of the Northern Isles data centre at the European Marine Energy Centre marks a milestone in Microsoft’s Project Natick, a years-long research effort to investigate manu- facturing and operating environmentally sus- tainable, pre-packaged data centre units that can be ordered to size, rapidly deployed and left to operate lights out on the seafloor for years.
Project Natick is an out-of-the-box idea to accom- modate exponential growth in demand for cloud computing infrastructure near population centres.
More than half of the world’s population lives within about 120 miles of the coast. By putting
Discover the zen in refrigeration
data centres in bodies of water near coastal cit- ies, data has a short distance to travel.
Project Natick’s 40 foot long Northern Isles data centre is loaded with 12 racks containing a total of 864 servers and associated cooling sys- tem infrastructure. The data centre was assem- bled and tested in France and shipped on a flat- bed truck to Scotland where it was attached to a ballast-filled triangular base for deployment on the seabed.
The vision of data centres with their own sus- tainable power supply is becoming a reality.
Phase 1 of Project Natick showed the under- water data centre concept is feasible. Phase 2 is focused on researching whether the concept is logistically, environmentally and economi- cally practical.
The Project Natick team will spend the next 12 months monitoring and recording the perfor- mance of the data centre, keeping tabs on every- thing from power consumption and internal hu- midity levels to sound and temperature levels.
about getting familiar with the ba- sics on refrigeration.
The goal of Chilling with Jens is to provide high-quality content in a way that fits the audience's lifestyle.
It's perfect to listen to during a daily commute, morning jog, or even at work. "We hope that cooling industry hopefuls and veterans alike will en- joy having an entertaining new learning resource at their finger-
tips," Anderson said.
Tune in at https://soundcloud. com/danfosscool
Deployment of the Northern Isles data centre which is loaded with 12 racks containing a total of 864 servers and associated cooling system infrastructure.
Next phase of underwater data centre project begins
DANFOSS COOLING IS tak- ing refrigeration education to new digital frontiers with the launch of a brand-new podcast — Chilling with Jens.
The podcast was designed to in- troduceinstallersandservicetech- nicians around the world to the principles, processes, and systems of evaporative refrigeration.
In this series, host Jens An-
dersen shares his refrigeration knowledge and insights, gained from over 40 years working in the cooling industry, in a relaxed and accessible way.
With each chapter, listeners will be exposedtoincreasinglyadvancedtop- ics, building on what they've already learned.
The first chapter of the series, called "The Evaporation Process," is
CLIMATECONTROLNEWS.COM.AU
14