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01.07.2017 News Successful launch of first South African thermal test chamber
On May 23rd, the first African test chamber for refrigerated vehicles was officially inaugurated in Pretoria. The test chamber enables manufacturers to test their cooling units and increase their efficiency, hereby mitigating the high levels of emissions from the transport refrigeration sector.
01.07.2017 News The Green Cooling Initiative contributes to U4E policy guidebooks
The United Nations Sustainable Energy for All initiative has identified energy-efficient appliances as a "high-impact opportunity". They have the potential to reduce countries' greenhouse gas emissions, generate economic benefits, enhance energy security and improve people's wellbeing. Amongst a five-part series of United for Efficiency (U4E) reports, the Green Cooling Initiative (GCI) contributed to two guidelines on energy-efficient & climate-friendly refrigerators and air conditioners.
01.07.2017 News Sri Lankan Delegation in Frankfurt
01.10.2017 News Successful Green Cooling Week 2017 in Berlin
From September 25th to 29th about 40 participants from 17 different countries met at the Green Cooling Week 2017 in Berlin organised by the Green Cooling Initiative (GCI) in order to find out about the latest environmentally friendly cooling technologies and to jointly develop new ways of using, disseminating and promoting sustainable Green Cooling worldwide.
01.10.2017 News GCI presents case study at ATMOsphere Europe in Berlin
In the course of the ATMOsphere Europe - a series of global events that bring together political, industrial as well as private stakeholders promoting natural refrigerants - the GCI presented a case study on the needs to develop international safety standards for hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants in commercial refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) appliances.
01.10.2017 News Data update on Green Cooling Initiative Website: time series now until 2050
The GCI has updated its emissions data projections. Global predictions of individual countries' RAC emissions now include data until 2050, and reflect emerging trends in technology choices. Data can be accessed at here.
Best practiceTraining: Training courses for refrigeration and air conditioning mechanics
For over 5 years, the Department of Engineering of the Maldives Institute of Technology (MIT) has been offering various training courses for refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) technicians. The Department of Engineering offers several training courses for RAC technicians, addressing both apprentices and more advanced technicians. The duration of the course varies between 4 months and 1 year, and costs lie between 2000 and 26000 Maldivian Rufiyaa per month. With these courses, the MIT is the leading institute in the Maldives, training service technicians on the safe handling and application of natural refrigerants in the RAC sector. …
Best practiceProject: SuperSmart: EU-wide energy efficient and climate-friendly supermarkets
SuperSmart is an EU-wide project advancing the use of more energy efficient refrigeration, heating and cooling appliances in Europe’s supermarkets by addressing all stakeholders involved in driving the uptake of more climate-friendly food retail stores. SuperSmart has 3 main objectives: to remove non-technological barriers to efficient heating & cooling in the EU food retails sector, training to raise the expertise level for energy-friendly supermarkets among (non-) technical staff, and to support the introduction of a new EU Ecolabel for food retails stores. The project is funded by the EU under the Horizon 220 Innovation Framework Programme. The consortium consists of 9 European partners from the fields of research, analysis, training, dissemination and network-building. …
Best practiceProject: An analysis of the emissions and costs of electrical trailer cooling during rest periods
Under the European transport network (TEN-T) Programme, NomadPower is developing a power supply network for temperature-controlled transport on parking lots. Long-distance transport trailers use diesel to cool their goods for resting periods of nine hours or more, during which it would be possible to connect to an electric power supply. Around 95% of cooling trailers are equipped with an electric standby refrigeration option, but this is only used during long periods of (un)loading where a power supply is available. Providing a power supply at service station parking lots will enable the potential to use electric standby mode instead of diesel during extended rest periods. The study on environmental and cost benefits by CE Delft revealed that in Europe alone, 50-100 million hours of diesel consumption at service station parking lots can be replaced by electricity supply. This would save 130-260 million liters of diesel and 290-580 kilo tons of CO2, which corresponds to the annual emissions of 2,700-5,400 long-haul trucks. …
Best practiceLiterature: The Cold Link Africa
The Cold Link Africa is a bimonthly newspaper focusing on all aspects of refrigeration, distributed to the entire South African refrigeration industry. It is a product of Interact Media Defined, one of South Africa’s leading multi-media magazine publishers. The first edition of the Cold Link (Africa) was published 30 years ago. The newspaper covers the cold chain from producer to consumer, and includes regular features, industry news, global events as well as policies and regulations. As such, it is of interest to all consumers, suppliers and contractors in the refrigeration industry. The readership of The Cold Link Africa made evident that the South African refrigeration industry requires coordination between all stakeholders of the cold chain. This gave birth to the South African Refrigeration Distribution Association (SARDA) in 1990. …