Webinar: High Performance; Low Impact – Ongoing Developments in Refrigerants

Abstract:

Regulatory requirements for reduction in Global Warming Potential of refrigerants continually drive change. As most of the environmental impact of an air-conditioning or refrigeration system derives from its energy consumption, the challenge for developers is to achieve reduction of GWP without compromising refrigerant performance. There is also increased focus not only on refrigerants but on their ultimate environmental fate. This webinar will cover some recent developmental refrigerants which are intended to give high efficiency with low GWP and which also have no-to-minimal long-lived decomposition products.

Bio:

Dr Low studied chemical engineering science at the University of Edinburgh; his doctoral research was on the use of renewable energy to run advanced heat pump cycles using zeotropic refrigerant mixtures. He joined ICI’s fluorochemical business in 1991 and worked initially on process design for R-134a production and on testing performance of R-32 and R-32 blend refrigerants, including carrying out the first field trials of R-407A, R-407B and R-407C. Since then he has continued to work in process engineering, new process development and product development of refrigerants including R-473A and R-444A. He is currently Orbia F&EM’s Company Technology Fellow, involved in all aspects of process and product development for refrigerants, energy materials and propellant gases. He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, a long-standing committee member of ASHRAE SSPC34 and the ISO 817 Maintenance Agency.