Best of 2012 - the most popular news on ammonia21.com

ammonia21.com offers you a selection of the most popular articles published on the platform in 2012. The selected articles reflect technology trends and market developments globally.

In 2012, the industry continued developing and deploying ammonia refrigeration technologies to meet the needs of different sectors, from food retail, food processing and air conditioning to leisure facilities. Moreover, several developing economies like India, Pakistan and China are increasing investment in ammonia.

Ammonia in commercial refrigeration

Preventing future refrigerant conversions with low charge ammonia retail solutions: Powerful arguments for investing in ammonia refrigeration systems in the retail sector were presented in innovative projects that demonstrate good efficiency savings, and high levels of safety, at ATMOsphere America 2012.

All-natural US supermarket store named ‘Best of the Best’: the Albertsons Carpinteria all-natural refrigerant store in California that features an ammonia primary system was honoured with the prestigious ‘Best of the Best Award’ during the 2012 Environmental Achievement Awards by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) GreenChill Partnership.

CO₂/NH₃ hybrid solutions in focus - Interview with Jean-Claude Logel, Axima: Mr Logel discusses the company’s experience with CO₂/ammonia industrial and retail solutions in France and countries with warm climates, shares customer perspectives and provides an outlook on the natural refrigerant market in France.

Ammonia technology in food processing and cold storage

NH₃ heating & cooling at UK dairy slashes utility bills - Interview with R. Unsworth, GEA Refrigeration UK: Incorporating ammonia reciprocating compressors, the energy-efficient heat pump solution for Robert Wiseman Dairies in Manchester recently won GEA Refrigeration UK Limited an Innovation Prize presented by trade magazine Food Processing.

Kraft Foods US processing facility installs NH₃ heat pump to cut energy costs: Kraft Foods reported on the application of an ammonia heat pump to capture the rejected heat and reuse it to provide water heating at its food processing facility in Davenport, Iowa. Kraft Foods outlined the benefits the company measured after the system was implemented.

Choices driving technology change: Nestlé’s refrigeration strategy: Nestlé is more than 90% natural in industrial refrigeration globally and is working together with other members of the Consumer Goods Forum to address the barriers to wide scale adoption of more climate-friendly refrigeration.

New tool to calculate performance of European cold stores: The EU funded ‘Improving Cold Storage Equipment in Europe’ (ICE-E) project has developed and made available a dynamic model that enables end users in Europe to calculate hourly heat load and electricity consumption of their cold stores throughout over a one year period, complementing a previous simple steady state model.

Innovative ammonia technology and new products

GL2012 2nd day presentations: focus on NH₃compressors: During the 10th Gustav Lorentzen conference in Delft, Netherlands centred around compressors, a key part of an efficient refrigeration system using ammonia as a natural refrigerant. The papers presented highlighted some of the most efficient designs to improve reliability and increase efficiency and life time of ammonia compressors.

Chillventa 2012: Latest ammonia products on show: Some 29,000 individuals visited the International Trade Fair for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Ventilation and Heat Pumps Chillventa that took place from 9-11 October 2012 in Nuremberg, Germany. ammonia21.com was on site to report about new developments and products using ammonia refrigerant.

Latest ammonia products on display at IIAR show: Ammonia charge reduction as well as new areas of application were the hot topics at the exhibition floors of the IIAR show in Milwaukee. Well-established North American companies but also emerging organisations from abroad presented their latest ammonia developments to conquer the growing US market.

Increasing uptake of ammonia in emerging economies

Association of Ammonia Refrigeration founded in India: As the new growth of the cold chain and food processing industry in India has increased the use of ammonia as refrigerant, the Association of Ammonia Refrigeration, India (AARI) has been formed to provide information and education to people and government for the safe use of the refrigerant.

Dalian to build China’s first CO₂/ NH₃ Cascade cold storage logistics base: China is establishing the largest cold storage logistics base for aquatic products in Northeast China in Dalian. The 200,000 tons cold store is also the first large-scale cold storage logistics base adopting a CO₂/ NH₃ cascade refrigeration system in China.

NH₃ in the Middle East: Authorities need to know that public safety is not compromised: A project team working on an ammonia based indoor ski resort in Dubai resorted to self-regulation in order to prove to the local authorities that public safety would not be compromised.

Pakistan inaugurates Natural Fluids Refrigeration Center: The Natural Fluids Refrigeration Center (NFRC), established in Topi, Pakistan by GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology in collaboration with Isotherm, Inc. USA. The center serves as an R&D hub for natural refrigerants and offers hands-on training to students and professionals.