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UK: A new compact ultra-low-charge ammonia chiller has been developed by Gateshead-based KGM Refrigeration with support from Bitzer UK.

UK: Samsung has installed its first B.IoT artificial intelligence system in the UK to control its VRF air conditioners at a new EPC A-rated multi-tenanted refurbished office building in Warrington.

AUSTRALIA: The installation of a CO2 chiller heat pump and a PV system has enabled an Australian brewery to increase production capabilities by 400% without increasing energy consumption.

FRANCE: A supermarket in Lyon has become the first in France to install the HFO blend refrigerant R471A as a lower GWP replacement for R134a.

UK: A CO2 refrigeration system installed in a Glasgow cold store is said to be consuming just half the energy suggested by UK best practice guidelines.

UK: Ciat air handling units are managing temperature and humidity in the transformer rooms for the world’s deepest offshore wind farm project in the North Sea.

GERMANY: A lower GWP HFC/HFO A2L blend has been chosen instead of CO2 for a new freezer for an airline caterer.

UK: A new heating and cooling system combining air-source and ground-source heat pumps, based on 64 boreholes, is to be installed at the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham.

GERMANY: A 6MW geothermal heat pump system capable of supplying over 6,000 households is set to be installed in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg.

UK: Seal pups at a wildlife sanctuary in the Shetland Islands are now enjoying an improved environment thanks to a Panasonic heat pump system.

UK: A project to explore the use of heat pumps to prevent potholes in UK roads has received an £800,000 research fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

UK: Müller Milk & Ingredients is trialling solar panels and kinetic energy for its refrigerated trailers, as an alternative to refrigeration powered by diesel engines.

JAPAN: A Japanese company claims to have developed a means of controlling facilities such as lighting, ventilation, and air conditioning with hand gestures.

SOUTH KOREA: LG Electronics will launch a household energy management platform, including its ESS energy storage system and Therma V R290 Monobloc heat pump, at IFA 2023 next month.

USA: A shipping container is being employed by researchers to test passive cooling systems in an attempt to find carbon-free ways to keep people cool in extreme temperatures.

GERMANY: GEA is to supply Britvic, one of the UK’s leading soft drinks manufacturers, with an ammonia heat pump heat recovery system at its facility in Beckton, east London. 

USA: Scientists at Stanford University claim to have invented a new kind of paint that can keep homes and other buildings cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.

UK: A ground-source heat pump has been deployed to replace three 2200kW gas boilers at the Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) building in Halifax.

JAPAN: Toshiba Carrier has supplied a spot air conditioning system as a crowdfunded present for one of the biggest attractions at Chiba City zoo.

USA: Researchers at MIT have developed a cost-effective forced-air evaporative cooling system in a used shipping container for preserving fruit and vegetables in arid regions.

UK: GEA is to supply Heineken UK’s brewery in Manchester with a heat pump network as part of Heineken’s £25m investment in a network to capture and reuse thermal energy.

UK: More than 100 Fujitsu R32 spilt air conditioners are to be installed in the site offices for a new £700m TV and film studio being constructed in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

ITALY: Trane Technologies heat pumps have been instrumental in decarbonising the heating systems of 31 schools in the Italian district of Fiumicino.

IRELAND: Ireland’s first low-carbon district heating network, recently opened in Tallaght, Dublin, is using a Mitsubishi Electric heat pump running on Honeywell’s low GWP HFO refrigerant R1234ze.

GERMANY/UK: High performance ammonia heat pumps are the driving force in the largest mine water heat network in Great Britain.

ITALY: The development of refrigeration in Africa is critical in a continent where people are dying from hunger and disease due to the lack of a basic cold chain.

IRELAND: Panasonic Aquarea Monobloc T-Cap air-source heat pumps have been specified for two family sea front homes in Waterford.