RACINE, WI - Modine Manufacturing Co. last week displayed and demonstrated the operation of a vehicular air conditioning system that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) as a refrigerant. The prototype system was introduced at the 2000 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Automotive Alternate Refrigerant Systems Symposium in Scottsdale, AZ.
Modine installed the air conditioning system on a BMW 328i. The new heat exchangers had to be direct, drop-in replacements for the existing components, having the same size and volume.