Features

ACR-News

Add my company

Know what you want? Try our 'Supplier Directory'

All

Latest Features

<<previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 of 36 pagesnext >>

1 Dec 2008

Alternative Refrigerants: A commercial break for CO2

Samuele Da Ros, product manager of advanced refrigeration systems for EPTA Group examines the advantages of ammonia and its use in modern systems

1 Dec 2008

Alternative Refrigerants: New views of an old favourite

Monika Witt, chairman of Eurammon, the European initiative for natural refrigerants, examines the trend towards using ammonia for lower-capacity refrigeration systems.

1 Dec 2008

Project 0620 is dead, long live Chillventa

“So, after more than two years of bickering, posturing, tears, threats, tantrums, court actions and uncertainties.........my employers finally let me go to Chillventa!” Neil Everitt provides an “alternative” report from the new refrigeration and air conditioning show.

1 Dec 2008

Alternative Refrigerants: CO2 at your convenience

ANDY Butler, head of r&d at Space Engineering and his team have developed what is believed to be the first UK-manufactured transcritical CO2 refrigeration plant for retail applications.

1 Dec 2008

Natural Refrigerants: The natural solution?

AS the HCFC ban approaches, Ken Logan, md of A-Gas (UK) looks at the alternative refrigerant solutions taking into account energy efficiency, safety, ease of use as well as environmental considerations.

1 Nov 2008

Customer Satisfaction

Taking time to explain an air conditioning system to an end-user can pay big dividends, as Graham Hendra of LG explains

1 Nov 2008

Commercial compressors: Five-star efficiency

The new Turbomiser chiller with its Turbocor oil-less compressors is said to be breaking new ground in energy efficiency – a claim that is now being proven at two high-profile UK hotels.

1 Nov 2008

Commercial compressors: Repairability is the key

Accessible parts have always been the drawback to scroll compressor tecnology, this is not the case with ThermaCom's new SemiScroll, as Trevor Dann explains.

1 Oct 2008

Supermarket Refrigeration: Advanced remedy for scale

A CALL from one of Britain's biggest supermarket chains has led Advanced Engineering to discover a problem that could be hampering the refrigeration systems at over a thousand premises nationwide.

1 Oct 2008

Supermarket Refrigeration: Daikin's integrated solution

Launched two years ago, Daikin’s Conveni-pack integrated refrigeration, air conditioning and heating system is beco.ming a popular choice for convenience stores.

1 Oct 2008

Distribution: As simple as ABC?

WITH distributors under greater market pressures than ever - with new entrants, new product lines and the ever present threat of more and more manufacturers going direct to contractors - it is important to add value.

1 Oct 2008

Cooling Towers: Merging the benefits of cooling towers and dry coolers

STEEPED in selling the benefits of evaporative cooling, Stephen Fairgrieve of Jaeggi Guentner is quick to point out how dry coolers require large surface areas and have relatively high energy consumption, even with higher water temperatures, in comparison to the better energy efficiency and significantly smaller surface areas of evaporative coolers.