Since the 1985 discovery of a hole in the ozone layer countries have agreed and amended treaties to aid its recovery. The most notable of these is the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ...

The 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol called for countries around the world to phase out substances that deplete the ozone layer, but many HVAC systems still use synthetic ...

Contractors and technicians who are making do with chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigerants and are not quite ready to embrace hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), may want to ...

The world will warm more than expected due to future changes in ozone, which protects the Earth from harmful sun rays but also traps heat as it is a greenhouse gas. While banning ozone-destroying ...

With so much talk these days about HCFC-22, I thought I’d offer a back-to-basics look at this refrigerant that has been so popular for so long - but now is facing phaseout. R-22 is a pure compound ...

Cool your home, warm the planet. When more than two dozen countries undertook in 1989 to fix the ozone hole over Antarctica, they began replacing chloroflourocarbons in refrigerators, air conditioners ...

THE ozone layer is the layer that forms a protective shield around the globe where it is responsible for the absorption of ultra-violet (UV) ray. The CFCs (chlorofluorocarbon) is the man-made chemical ...

More than three decades after the global community agreed to phase out many ozone-depleting substances, researchers warn that another group of compounds may pose a growing problem. Get breaking news ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio analysts forecast the global secondary refrigerants market to grow at a CAGR of close to 8% during the forecast period, according to their latest market research ...