Challenges of and Option for Refrigerant Selection

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Download the paper here

If you missed Alexander Cohr Pachai, winner of the J&E Hall Gold Medal, presenting his paper, a recording is now available. 

This paper presentation provides an extensive overview of the future of refrigerants options while covering the relative strengths and weaknesses of current refrigerants available. It also features examples of how end users are overcoming these barriers to successfully adopt low GWP alternative refrigerants safely.

 

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