The refrigerant would flush out the contaminants and then evaporate, leaving the coils clean, residue-free, and ready for use. This cleaning process is no longer legal. In addition to having phased ...

A federal ban on Freon and related refrigerants scheduled to kick in the year after next may make motorists hot under the collar once they learn it could cost hundreds of dollars to make their auto… ...

Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) R-404A has been used for many years as a long-term refrigerant replacement blend for chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) R-502. R-502 was a binary, azeotropic refrigerant blend of ...

5.2.1.2 Phasing Out of CFC, CFC, and HFC Refrigerants 5.2.1.3 Long-Term Viability of Low GWP Refrigerants 5.2.1.4 Increasing Demand for Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Application ...

A single molecule of CFC-12 can hold nearly 11,000 times the heat of carbon dioxide, making it an extraordinarily potent greenhouse gas. The small, dark shed where the refrigerant cache was ...

Razorback told him there was R-12—that is, Refrigerant-12, a generic name for CFC-12, the particular kind of Freon Sam was hunting—all over the mid-South. He’d seen it online.

CFC refrigerants were phased out of use in 1996 in accordance with the Montreal Protocol, and federal law requires that all refrigerants be captured.

American companies will soon be prohibited from making or importing the chemicals that are the lifeblood of most car air conditioners, refrigerators and the cooling systems of many large buildings.… ...

This new refrigerant has a global-warming impact number of just 4. There is no intent to retrofit R-134a systems with the new R-1234yf, in the way many R-12 systems were haphazardly converted to R ...