WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - If HFC refrigerants ever come under fire in the United States, the mobile and stationary HVACR sectors appear more and more ready to offer CO2 as the alternative. Four representatives of industry manufacturers and an end user from the U.S. Army talked about work they are doing with CO2 at the joint Compressor Engineering and Refrigeration & Air Conditioning conferences at Purdue University.
Their efforts are being driven by pending legislation in Europe that may end up banning the use of HFCs in automotive air conditioning. These environmentally and politically driven efforts seek to curtail the use of HFCs in stationary equipment.