Press release 43/08 from 09.06.2008 | Last changed: 03.07.2013
Natural refrigerant for mobile air conditioning systems
… the fluorinated greenhouse gas tetrafluoroethane, which has a high Global Warming Potential (GWP) and is known commercially as R134a. Researchers and engineers have … while considering R744 and other synthetic refrigerants with low Global Warming Potential. In Europe the eventual abandonment of fluorinated refrigerants with high Global Warming Potential is scheduled. As per EU Directive 2006/40/EC, after 1 January 2011 …