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1st September 2014
Toshiba’s vital cooling for MRI scanner
A bespoke Toshiba air conditioning system is being used to cool a state-of-the-art transportable MRI scanner, the first of its kind to be developed by…
29th August 2014
Solar PV to supply supermarket energy
GERMANY: One of the world’s largest diesel photovoltaic hybrid systems is to be installed in a supermarket in the city of Flacq, Mauritius. The 3.2MW…
20th August 2014
Temporary cooling is plane sense
UK: With 100,000 visitors in the hottest month of the year, the Farnborough International Air Show has one of the largest temporary cooling requirements in…
18th August 2014
Ideal conditions are par for the course
UK: Comfortable conditions were par for the course for guests at a gala dinner prior to the Senior Open Golf Championship in Porthcawl last month.…
17th August 2014
Germany promotes solar cooling in Africa
SOUTH AFRICA: Mobile telecommunications company MTN is benefitting from Africa's first concentrating solar cooling system at its Johannesburg head office. The system consists of 242…
13th August 2014
Adsorption chillers are hot topic
[caption id="attachment_7497" align="alignright" width="440"] InvenSor chillers employed at a plastics production facility[/caption] GERMANY: Adsorption chiller manufacturer InvenSor claims to be benefitting from growing interest in…
3rd August 2014
EU targets airport HVAC systems
[caption id="attachment_7322" align="alignright" width="461"] Fiumicino in Rome is Italy's busiest airport and the venue for one of the Cascade pilot projects[/caption] The EU is turning…
1st August 2014
Hybrid ac – the cool solution for Qatar 2022?
[caption id="attachment_7294" align="alignright" width="427"] Top: The Aspire Stadium is expected to play a key role in the 2022 World Cup Above: The Air2O units in…
31st July 2014
Toshiba conditions Glasgow BREEAM building
UK: A new landmark building in Glasgow’s St Vincent Plaza, being designed to have a BREEAM rating of Excellent, will be cooled and heated by a…
30th July 2014
Energy storage the key to trigeneration project
UK: An innovative trigeneration system fuelled entirely by raw plant oils could have great potential for isolated homes and businesses operating outside grid systems both…
29th July 2014
Kelvin apologises
We apologise to our regular visitors who may have experienced problems with the website over the last couple of days. The fact is that Kelvin…
28th July 2014
Carrier and Otis share family connection
[caption id="attachment_7175" align="alignright" width="443"] Willis Carrier (left) "the father of air conditioning" was related to lift pioneer Elisha Otis[/caption] USA: The famous Carrier air conditioning…
16th July 2014
R22 conversion is no fishy tale
UK: A spiral freezer plant at a Grimsby fish processing facility running on R22 is believed to be the first of its kind in the…
5th July 2014
Ice rinks on firm ground with ammonia
Ice rink operators, one of the largest users of R22, have been particularly hard hit by the phase out of HCFCs in Europe. With servicing of…
2nd July 2014
Refrigeration ensures the perfect service
[caption id="attachment_6529" align="alignright" width="450"] Tim Henman with this year's official Slazenger tennis ball – a slave to refrigeration[/caption] The Wimbledon Championship, which reaches a climax…
30th June 2014
Low energy fridge defrost brings rewards
A new flash defrost technology, which promises to dramatically reduce the running costs of retail refrigeration equipment, is currently being trialled in stores across the…
29th June 2014
Q-ton heat pump is cute choice
A standard in air conditioning for many years, heat pumps are now also becoming a popular choice for heating. Most rely on HFC refrigerants but…
25th June 2014
Prestcold lives! Owzat?
It was the company where many of the leading lights of today's UK refrigeration industry served their apprenticeships but, sadly, Prestcold, the company and the…
18th June 2014
Strawberry fields forever?
Refrigeration is essential in ensuring strawberries reach the market in peak condition. As a respiring fruit, strawberries begin to deteriorate immediately on picking – unless they…
17th June 2014
Carrier to protect the Sistine Chapel
Carrier is to supply a new air conditioning system for the Sistine Chapel to help protect Michelangelo's 16th century frescoes against deterioration. Described as groundbreaking, Carrier’s…
16th June 2014
Refrigeration in a social whirl
A new poster campaign extolling the too often overlooked virtues and benefits of refrigeration is causing quite a stir on social media. So who is…
10th June 2014
Cooling Post – now second in the market
Less than eight months since its launch the Cooling Post website has attained the no 2 spot amongst dedicated air conditioning and refrigeration news websites…
1st June 2014
The flagship for advanced climate control
Raising Henry Vlll's warship the Mary Rose in 1982 demanded care and precision. The closely-controlled conditions now being demanded for its preservation are equally uncompromising.…
30th May 2014
Efficient ac brings BREEAM award
ITALY: Efficient air conditioning equipment has helped the new Nave de Vero hypermarket near Venice to achieve BREEAM certification – a first for an Italian…
25th May 2014
Henry celebrates 100 years
In a year that sees many air conditioning and refrigeration companies celebrating anniversaries, there is probably none more significant than the centenary celebrations of component…
21st May 2014
ISD and Kingspan bring Aldi in from the cold
Aldi’s new energy efficient cold store, warehouse and distribution centre being built at Goldthorpe, near Barnsley, UK, features an unusual single envelope design by ISD…
20th May 2014
A sociable climate for Facebook data
UK-based JS Humidifiers is helping maintain sociable conditions for Facebook’s newly-built, naturally-cooled data centre in Luleå, Sweden. The humidification system at Facebook Luleå is one…