Today (31 March) Honeywell has launched new lower global-warming-potential (GWP) products for applications ranging from supermarket refrigeration to industrial cooling.

The new products expand the company’s Solstice line of hydrofluoro-olefin (HFO) refrigerants, blowing agents, aerosol propellants and solvents. The firm says that its Solstice products offer lower global warming potentials with similar or better cooling performance when compared to previous-generation products and help its customers to comply with F-gas Regulation, Ecodesign and other European environmental regulations.

Julien Soulet, business director for Honeywell’s Fluorine Products business in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India, said: 'Each year, the world uses more than 100 thousand tonnes of refrigerant, enough to keep food fresh in 240,000 supermarkets and to cool more than 300,000 commercial buildings. Honeywell is committed to continuing to invest in the development and introduction of new offerings, to make it easier for industry to adopt and use alternatives to higher global warming potential refrigerants.'

Honeywell’s offerings include: Solstice zd (R-1233zd), a non-flammable HFO refrigerant with a GWP equal to 1, for use in low pressure centrifugal chillers; Solstice ze (R-1234ze), an HFO refrigerant that can be used in equipment that traditionally used R-134a (ie, chillers, heat pumps, appliances and refrigeration equipment); Solstice N13 (R-450A) an HFO blend for chillers, medium-temperature applications such as supermarket display cases and self-contained refrigeration units that require a non-flammable refrigerant solution; and Solstice N40 (R-448A): an HFO blend for low- and medium-temperature refrigeration equipment such as supermarket freezer cases or transport refrigeration.

For more information visit www.honeywell-refrigerants.com/europe.