ISI COPERTINA 2018 BISS:COPERTINA 7/07 8-10-2018 9:48 Pagina 1 Official journal of Centro Studi Galileo (CSG) and European Energy Centre (EEC) international special issue 2018-19 refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pumps and renewables THE DAWN OF A NEW REFRIGERATION ERA THE KIGALI AMENDMENT FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ITALIAN MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT Dir. resp. E. Buoni - Via Alessandria, 26 -Tel. + 39 0142 453684 - 15033 Casale Monferrato - ITALY sommario inglese 2018:mod 2002 8-10-2018 12:24 Pagina 2 Contents Forewords 3 Publishing Manager: Enrico Buoni Climate change The Environmental Challenge of Our Time 6 [email protected] Marco Buoni - President of AREA,Technical Director of CSG, Secretary General of ATF Copy Editor: The impact of the refrigeration sector on climate change - Flammable refrigerants 9 M.C. Guaschino Didier Coulomb – Director of International Institute of Refrigeration - IIR Editor: Low-GWP Refrigerants for High Ambient Temperature Climates: Design Analysis and Risk Assessment 12 Centro Studi Galileo Ayman Eltalouny - Coordinator International Partnerships, OzonAction programme UN Environment (UNEP) via Alessandria, 26 Ole Reinholdt Nielsen, Refrigeration and Aerosols Unit Chief, United Nations Industrial Development 15033 Casale Monferrato Organization (UNIDO) Bassam Elassaad, RTOC member Consultant to UNEP/UNIDO High-Ambient Project Phone +39 0142 452403 Enhanced and Localized Life-Cycle Climate Performance (EL-LCCP) Metric for Air Conditioners 16 Advertisement: Stephen O. Andersen, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD); James Wolf, Global Phone +39 0142 453684 Policy Associate; Yunho Hwang and Jiazhen Ling, University of Maryland (UMD); and Marco Gonzalez, www.centrogalileo.it Montreal Protocol Technology and Economics Assessment Panel (TEAP) website of CSG activity Research status on the flammable characteristics of combustible refrigerants 19 www.associazioneATF.org Zijian Lv, Zhaoyang, Biao Feng, Rui Zhai - School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, China website of the Italian Association On behalf of Chinese Association of Refrigeration (CAR) of Refrigeration Technicians Analysis of best practice training of refrigeration service personnel in China 23 www.EUenergycentre.org Xu Chen – Authorized Principal for Shenzen Qianhai Bingbing Education Investment Development, China website of EEC activity Selection of Refrigerants and Future Trend 25 Noboru Kagawa - Professor, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Member of International Institute of Refrigeration, President of Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (JSRAE) The Latest Trends in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning in Japan (Regulation and Market Trend) 30 Tetsuji Okada – The Japan Refrigeration and Air conditioning Industry Association (JRAIA) Energy Efficiency Trends in Data Centers 34 Sanjib Seal - Senior Solution Manager, India Swegon BlueBox, Mumbai. On behalf of ISHRAE Early Planning Will Prevent Poor Performance 40 Stephen R.Yurek – President & CEO, AHRI Workshop on Flammable Refrigerant Charge Limits in a Low-GWP World – Can/should they be Higher? 43 Ahmad Abu-Heiba, Viral Patel, Van Baxter, Omar Abdelaziz, Ahmed Elatar - ASHRAE The Path to Low-GWP and Energy Efficient Refrigeration and Air Conditioning 48 Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Countries: lessons learnt from The Gambia Bafoday Sanyang – National Ozone Unit The Gambia How Can Refrigeration Impact Positively the 17 SDGs in Africa? 50 Madi Sakande – Expert Trainer CSG About the picture on the cover: Towards the Establishment of a National System of Certification in the Cold Sector 52 Youssef Hammami, Coordinator of the National Ozone Unit (NOU) Tunisia – The sun: our source of energy, is also a major threat due to the Ozone The Potential of Solar Cooling for Social Housing Buildings in Mexico 54 hole and Climate Change Paul Kohlenbach, Uli Jakob - SOLEM Consulting – Ozone protection: the sky contains The New F-Gas Regulation Challenges RACHP Business on Multiple Fronts 58 our Earth’s ozone shield Per Jonasson, Director of the Swedish Refrigeration & Heat Pump Association - Past President of AREA – Climate Change: the Global Glacier retreat due to global warming is a 7 Lessons Learned from the EU F-Gas Regulation 61 global threat Andrea Voigt – European Partnership for Energy and the Environment (EPEE) – Energy Efficiency and Renewable The Green Gas Research Project: Challenges and Opportunities for Low GWP Refrigerants Application 66 Energy: glaciers and water are a in the Commercial Refrigeration Sector primary source of energy for our F. Barile, M. Masoero, C. Silvi - Department of Energy “Galileo Ferraris”, Politecnico of Torino hydroelectric plants Training on Flammable Refrigerants 70 Cover photo: Colors of Jökulsarlon, Elia Locardi Kelvin Kelly – Training Director Business Edge Transforming the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry in Australia 73 Greg Picker – Executive Director of Refrigerants Australia Progress in Enabling larger HC Charge Sizes for RAC&HP Systems 75 D. Colbourne1, K. O. Suen2, D. Oppelt1, V. Kanakakumar1, K Skacanova3, D. Belluomini3, P. Munzinger4 FREE COPY 1c/o HEAT GmbH, Germany 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Casale M. 3Shecco, Belgium 4Proklima International, Climate Change, Environment, Infrastructure Division, GIZ, Germany n. 123 del 13.6.1977 - Spedizione in a. p. - 70% - Filiale di Alessandria - ITALY. The SuperSmart Project: Removing Non-Technological Barriers to the Diffusion of Innovative Solutions 79 This magazine has been produced with - The Importance of Training and Dissemination in the Food Retail Sector paper E.C.F. (Elementary clorine Free) Antonio Rossetti, Silvia Minetto, Sergio Marinetti - Construction Technologies Institute, CNR Padova, Italy pag FOREWORDS 2018:mod 2002 8-10-2018 18:08 Pagina 1 FOREWORDS Italy strongly believes that climate change is a global challenge and thus needs a global response. Strong scientific evidence presented in many recent reports points to the acceleration of climate change and this leads to the unprecedented urgency to implement global efforts to halt and reverse climate change in all regions. The forthcoming publication of the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C is likely to present new evidence on the negative impacts of climate change on human societies and natural systems, including impacts on health, livelihood, food, water as well as human security. After the historic success in Paris in 2015, this December in Katowice we all will be called to confirm our commitment to the fight against climate change by adopting a common and comprehensive set of rules (“rulebook”) applicable to all Parties that will finally operationalize the Agreement. We will do our utmost to craft a robust and balance outcome at COP24 to help us to achieve the purpose and the long-term goals set in Paris. Since leaders announced their pledges in Paris during COP21, Italy and the rest of EU Member States have accelerated domestic action to deliver on the Paris Agreement long-term goals, while continuing to successfully decouple economic growth from GHG emissions. Italy acknowledges particular attention to the international cooperation aimed at strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change by both reducing emissions and adapting to climate change. Specific attention is devoted to the least developed and most vulnerable countries where our priority is to enhance the capacity to respond to climate change. This is why we are undertaking continuous efforts to scale-up our international climate finance to support mitigation and adaptation actions, to facilitate access to climate finance, to provide capacity building and technology transfer to help meet the Paris agreement obligations and achieve its long- term goals. In the provision of public financial resources, we have worked and continue to work to strike a fair balance between mitigation and adaptation support. Special focus is on Africa, with Sahel at upfront, and the small islands in the Pacific and in the Caribbean. We will soon open, in partnership with FAO and UNDP, the African Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development in Rome and we are considering similar initiative for the other regions. We are also working in the context of numerous bilateral agreement to support the implementation of the NDC’s in these areas. Concerning energy efficiency in refrigeration and air conditioning, Italy will accelerate its way to ratify the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol in time for its entry into force on 1th January 2019. In line with its international obligations, the Ministry for the Environment will continue to ensure the contribution of Italy to the Multilateral Fund for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol (MLF), the global financial mechanism that supports developing countries in complying with the reduction targets by means of projects including industrial conversion, technical assistance, training and capacity building. To this aim, within the MLF rules which allows to allocate up to 20% of the yearly obligatory contribution for bilateral cooperation, Italy is also supporting a number of developing countries’ national plans to eliminate ozone- depleting substances with the aim to avoid conversion to HFCs and “leapfrog” directly to more climate-friendly alternatives, including Argentina, China, Iran, Brazil, Mexico, Ghana and Nigeria.