Danish Technological Institute and ATMO have partnered to bring you the world’s first conference on NatRefs in air conditioning.
Over the last years, the HVAC&R industry has become increasingly focused on sustainability. As part of this trend, many companies have taken on the challenge of making their products more energy efficient, stepping away from HFCs, and adopting new technologies to produce the impressive NatRef-based products we have come to know.
Now it is air conditioning’s turn to join the NatRef trend. The next ten years will be key to accelerate this maker by educating stakeholders, making technologies commercially viable at competitive prices, and continuing to develop new solutions.
Keynote speech given by Iain Campbell, Senior Fellow, Rocky Mountain Institute | The Global Cooling Prize
Ilana Koegelenberg, Market Development Manager, shecco, will share the latest market and policy trends from around the world on natural refrigerant technologies, including selected statistics from sheccoBase.
Moderator: Christian Heerup, Business Manager, Refrigeration, Danish Technological Institute | Policy Measures on F-Gasses: How did we respond?
Mikkel Aaman Sørensen, Head of Section – Chemicals Department, Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark | Lessons Learned: Policy Measures on F-Gasses
Moderator: Marc Chasserot, CEO, shecco
(Introduction) Bente Tranholm-Schwarz, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Clima, European Commission | EU F-Gas Policy: Promoting More Climate Friendly AC
Barbara Gschrey, Policy Advisor and Managing Director, Öko-Recherche | Current Work on Stationary AC
Dr. Daniel de Graaf, Scientific Assistant, German Environment Agency (UBA) | Supporting the Use of Natural Refrigerants in Air Conditioning
Francesco Scuderi, Deputy Secretary General, Eurovent | EU Climate Neutrality Strategy
Moderator: Jan Dusek, Chief Operating Officer & Head of APAC, shecco
Giacomo Pisano, Technical Sales Manger, Dorin | Designing a 200kW Chiller: Efficiency Comparison Between HFCs and Natural Refrigerants in European Climate Zones
Sergio Girotto, President, Enex & Giacomo Tossatto, Researcher, ITC-CNR (National Research Council – Construction Technology Institute)| Improvements on: Water and Brine Chiller for Air Conditioning and Process Cooling
Moderator: Christian Heerup, Business Manager, Refrigeration, Danish Technological Institute
Samir Hamed, Research & Development Manager, Petra (United Nations Industrial Development Organization [UNIDO] MLF project) | Design, Manufacturing and Performance Testing of Large Capacity R290 Rooftop Package Air Conditioning Units
Joined in Q&A by: Franziska Menten, Project Coordinator, UNIDO
Neal Lawrence, Senior Research Engineer, Creative Thermal Solutions (CTS) | Successful Conversion of Railway Air-Conditioning Unit to Transcritial R744 Technology
Moderator: Ilana Koegelenberg, Market Development Manager, shecco
Martin Lazar, Co-Owner, HKS Lazar | Air/Water Heat Pump HT 10/20 Method of Reducing R-290 Refrigerant Charge and COP Efficiency Increasing Methods
Rossana Boccia, PhD Student, Technical University of Denmark | Heat Recovery Ventilation Heat Pump Water Heaters and Propane: Development & Challenges
Moderator: Christian Heerup, Business Manager, Refrigeration, Danish Technological Institute
Stefan Elbel, Chief Engineer, Creative Thermal Solutions (CTS) | Energy Savings in Commercial Air Conditioning by Use of a Low-Charge Ammonia Chiller
Dr. Paride Gullo, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Denmark (project with Danfoss) | A Novel Capacity Control Mechanism for Two-phase Ejectors in Transcritical R744 Air Conditioners
Summary of the conference with key takeaways by Esben Vendelbo Foged, Team Manager, Centre for Refrigeration- and Heat Pump Technology,Danish Technological Institute

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