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end-user views on natural refrigerants
If you had to formulate a global action
plan to bring natural refrigerants
faster to market what would your top 3
priorities be?
I’d form some working groups with technical
educators and contracting firms as well as industry
experts (retailers and mfrs) and government
agencies and NGOs to design an awareness
campaign and education curriculum. This process
would lay out why there is a need for moving to
natural refrigerants, as well as increase the demand
for those systems and the corresponding engineering
and installation & maintenance contracting services
for them. We’d also develop training programs and
work with information technology experts to design
best control and feedback systems for continuous
commissioning, diagnostics and management for
on-going business case studies to help influence
market transformation. I’d also work to determine
how best to develop subsidies or additional ways to
make the business case easier until the demand is
increased and costs come down.
Kathy Loftus, Whole Foods
1) More data and case studies with actual data.
2) An indication of costs coming down (capital and
operating costs).
3) Better training on CO 2
transcritical.
Harrison Horning, Delhaize America
1) I think we need to increase the HC charge that
can be used in freezers. That would drive many more
opportunities.
2) I think the opportunity of people who are
interested in using the technology to collaborate
together and to get applications used with greater
breadth and depth
3) I would encourage EPA to continue to seek the
opportunities to support industry such as ours to
really move the technology through the regulatory
process to the finishing line.
Andrea Asch, Ben and Jerry’s
1) Synergy between government and industry
regulating agencies (such EPA/UL) to avoid
conflicting approval messages that are received by
end users.
2) Regulation in the training of service
technicians through either Government or
industry organizations to ensure technicians are
knowledgeable and qualified to service equipment
with natural refrigerants.
3) Participation by the wholesale suppliers of
parts and refrigerants. As an end user of standalone
small freezers, serviced by local very small
refrigeration companies, there is no confidence that
even if trained that they would have access to the
replacement parts and refrigerants for re-charge.
Deb Rose, Blue Bunny
First and foremost increase the reliability of the
components on the compressor side. Another thing
would be to see other people step up and make a
move in favour of natural refrigerants. I am talking
about the end users community. We need more
interest from the broader end user community -
actual buyers of commercial refrigeration systems.
It would be nice to see them step up and say: ‘We are
interested. We think it will make a difference here’.
A third issue will be to develop access to educational
services to help everyone involved, engineers as well
as technicians. What we at Coca Cola have observed,
is that we are having to develop our own training
program for servicing and diagnosing issues for
systems using natural refrigerants because there is
really not much, especially here in the United States.
Some of our internal training was actually outside
of the United States due to the lack of educational
services here.
Steven Cousins, The Coca-Cola Company
1) Assure full compliance with local regulations and
internal company standards;
2) Define & evaluate the business case, and if
proven to be feasible, then:
3) Define & agree on a rollout plan.
Rene van Gerwen, Unilever
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