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USA: The University of Missouri is developing a new type of cooling system which it claims could dramatically reduce energy demands on data centres.

UK: Dedicated support from the MHI Projects team has helped provide a climate control upgrade for the UK home of a leading global glass processing specialist.

AUSTRALIA: An indirect evaporative CO2 refrigeration system which promises potential energy savings of 19% is being trialled in one of Australia's leading supermarkets.

USA: The first data centre at Corscale’s Gainesville Crossing campus is set to open following the successful integrated systems testing (IST) of the recently installed Airedale by Modine cooling solution.

UK: Painting roofs white would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered “green roofs”, street-level vegetation or solar panels, a new study claims.

USA: Work by a research team led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing a better understanding of solid-state cooling materials.

CANADA: Soteck Clauger has developed a high temperature heat pump using the HFO refrigerant R1233zd for a food processing application.

SWITZERLAND: Researchers have found that varying the composition of refrigerant mixtures can enable heat pumps to generate different temperatures from different heat sources, while increasing efficiency by up to 25%.

IRELAND: Trane is helping to further our understanding of the Earth's climate system by helping to preserve and transport Antarctic ice cores to Germany.

TAIWAN: Evergreen Marine Corp, one of the world’s leading shipping lines, is enhancing operations by deploying Carrier Transicold’s Lynx Fleet monitoring solution onto 7,000 refrigerated containers. 

UK: Fujitsu General Air Conditioning UK is helping to deliver the best possible growing conditions for a vertical farming enterprise in Northamptonshire.

UK: Mitsubishi Electric is to provide heating, cooling and ventilation equipment to Chester Zoo, the not-for-profit conservation zoo in Cheshire.

UK: Daikin EWAH~TZ air-cooled VFD screw compressor chillers, using HFO refrigerant R1234ze(E), have been at the centre of a major heating and cooling transplant at Basildon University Hospital.

ITALY: As well as benefitting the environment, the timely detection of a chiller refrigerant leak has saved costs and potential production downtime for a leading aluminium die-casting foundry.

UK: Three Bitzer Ecolite condensing units running on R454C have been installed at a leading Gloucestershire meat processor, one of the first such projects to be installed in the UK.

UK: The latest lower GWP Marstair cellar coolers are being employed to service the bars within one of Glasgow’s most historic live music venues. 

NORWAY: An 18-storey mixed-use building in Oslo makes use of a climate system that is self-sufficient in heating, cooling and ventilation.

USA: Scientists from the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) claim to have dramatically reduced the time and energy required to chill materials to temperatures near absolute zero.

AUSTRALIA: Air conditioning units may in the future be used by forensic teams to access vital DNA evidence in crime solving.

SINGAPORE: A real-world study by researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, has shown that the use of cool paint coatings in cities can help pedestrians feel up to 1.5ºC cooler. 

IRELAND: An Irish distiller is now producing carbon neutral whiskeys following the installation of high temperature heat pumps from Finnish manufacturer Oilon.

UK: Star Refrigeration’s Ethos performance optimisation and monitoring system has enabled Tesco to save a massive 4GWh of energy across eight of its distribution centres in just 21 months.

SAUDI ARABIA: German manufacturer Güntner has supplied 132 dry coolers, each with 18 fans, to a 32,500TR district cooling project in Saudi Arabia.

GERMANY: A new data centre in Frankfurt, due to open this summer, has sustainability at its heart, with the support of 20 dry coolers from Kelvion.

UK: Construction has begun on a multi-million pound energy centre in Liverpool, which will house one of the UK’s largest water-source heat pumps.

UK: A relocation to new premises by UK Alternative Energy Ltd has enabled the Lincoln-based renewable energy specialist to incorporate heat pumps, solar PV and battery storage solutions.

UK: Researchers from the University of Birmingham are working on an energy storage system which couples a chemical heat pump with microwave energy to produce heating or cooling on demand.