R-22 Phase Out: Future of Refrigerants

www2.dupont.com There is a continued drive to reduce the environmental footprint of refrigeration systems and increase the energy efficiency of air conditioning systems. Barbara Minor, a dupont Engineering Fellow, and Nick Strickland, a dupont Market Development Manager, discuss market drivers for developing R-22 replacements and the broad range of refrigerant solutions that have been developed by dupont for new and existing equipment. Barbara Minor, Engineering Fellow dupont Refrigerants: Well, dupont has a product line for new equipment as well. And, …, you can always go to duponts Refrigerants Web site. Theres information on all of our products there. But there there are refrigerants for new equipment. For example, 410A is a preferred refrigerant for new air conditioning systems. But, its properties are very different from R-22, so it would not be an option to retrofit a current system. And so, most of the air conditioning companies, in the new equipment theyre designing, are choosing products like 410A, because of high energy efficiency and high capacity. And then, supermarkets, there are products there as well. So there are options, whether you want new equipment, or whether you wanna try and keep your R-22 equipment running. …, theres a solution. Nick Strickland, Market Development Manager dupont Refrigerants: We look to the future, its, I think what might happen is a continued divergence of technologies and continued divergence of different categories of …