An October installation of the units in a Mexico City convenience store serves five walls of refrigerated display cabinets.
Incentives, including exemptions of duties and taxes on natural refrigerant units, make R290 air conditioners less expensive than synthetic ones in the South Caribbean country.
The South-South cooperation effort was a starting point for introducing propane air conditioners into the two countries.
With the launch of the piston compressors at the November Italian Refrigera exhibition, the company “evolves its positioning and identity” to include a high-temperature product line.
The system provides a ‘robust’ alternative to gas detectors with findings from tests conducted on an R290 air-conditioning unit discussed in a free-to-download paper available until November 14.
Developed tools and support simplify OEM use, with a possible six-month payback with up to 42% energy savings over fixed speed units.
The company is also tweaking its ice cream formulation to test storage at -12°C instead of the standard -18°C load temperature, measuring 20‒25% energy savings.
The Topten-listed energy-efficient cabinet IDA S ‒ now available in the American market ‒ will be on display at the Atlanta show in the Excellence Industries booth.
Funded, in part by GIZ Uganda, the program involved 89 students, technicians and trainers, learning brazing, leak detection and vacuuming for propane systems.
Thanks to safety measures, not a single accident has been recorded for Refra’s propane chillers and heat pumps.
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