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MHI large capacity chillers win environment award

JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has received a Japanese government climate action award for its JHT-Y/JHT-YI series of large-capacity centrifugal chillers using R1234yf.

The Minister of the Environment Award for Climate Action 2024, which is sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment, was presented at a ceremony in Tokyo on December 2.

This latest award is MHI Thermal Systems’ third to date: in 2019, the company received an Environment Minister’s Award for its high-efficiency centrifugal chiller ETI-Z series using R1233zd(E) and, in 2021, MHI garnered the award for development and promotion of its Q-ton Circulation air-to-water heat pump, using R454C.

The constant-speed JHT-Y and inverter-equipped JHT-YI were launched in June 2022 and offer capacities ranging from 300RT to 5,400RT. They were the first centrifugal chillers with capacities up to 5,400RT commercially offered in Japan with a low-GWP refrigerant. 

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MHI to launch R1234yf chillers up to 5,400RT5 April 2022
JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems is set to launch a new series of large capacity centrifugal chillers from 300 to 5,400RT on the low GWP refrigerant R1234yf. Read more…

MHI develops heat pump for R454C5 March 2018
JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has introduced a commercial heat pump using the little-known lower GWP refrigerant R454C. Read more…

MHI extends R1234ze(E) chiller range20 February 2017
JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has extended its range of chillers running on new low GWP refrigerant R1234ze(E) to cover capacities from 150 to 5,000TR. Read more…

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