Editor’s Note: Europe is now only a year away from a total ban on R-22 and other hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). And Peter Dinnage warns, the HVAC industry has to act fast to get the message across ...

MONTREAL - Supplies of HCFC-22 could get a bit tighter sooner than expected as the result of the recent Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP-19). One aspect of the agreement means that ...

The Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) has launched a new website designed to provide information and reduce confusion regarding the phase-out of HCFC refrigerants, so as to ...

Refrigerant producers have been gearing up for the phaseout of their most popular product, hydrochlorofluorocarbon-22 (HCFC-22, chlorodifluoromethane), by investing in environmentally friendlier ...

In the refrigeration cycle of air conditioners and heat pumps, refrigerants are working fluids that typically go through numerous phase changes from a liquid to a gas and back again. Due to their ...

Marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal protocol, representatives from nations around the world have agreed to accelerate the phaseout of ozone-depleting hydrochlorofluorocarbons ...