ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A range of refrigerants is gaining attention at the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration’s Ammonia Refrigeration Conference & Exhibition running March 19 at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The conference is designed to explore options to CFCs and HCFCs in a variety of technical presentations, and the focus is not only on ammonia, but on various HFCs and CO2 as well.
One presentation will compare HFC-134a chillers and packaged ammonia chillers for air conditioning applications. The report analyzes ammonia’s competitiveness in the water-cooled screw chiller air conditioning market. Another report will focus on R-134a and ammonia, looking at case studies of two plants and how the fundamental thermodynamic properties of the two refrigerants affect the design of real world refrigeration systems.