VATIS update : ozone layer protection. Vol. 4, No. 117, Mar-Apr 2013

VATIS Update Ozone Layer Protection is published 6 times a year to keep the readers up to date of most of the relevant and latest technological developments and events in the field of Ozone Layer Protection. The Update is tailored to policy-makers, industries and technology transfer intermediaries....

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Main Authors: UN.ESCAP, Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT)
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: UN.ESCAP. Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12870/2089
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Summary:VATIS Update Ozone Layer Protection is published 6 times a year to keep the readers up to date of most of the relevant and latest technological developments and events in the field of Ozone Layer Protection. The Update is tailored to policy-makers, industries and technology transfer intermediaries. Highlights : Ozone hole has changed ocean mix Forane 427A trialled at brewer's sites New cleaning agent with excellent environmental profile Water mist system for maritime applications CO2 as a blowing agent for PU mouldings Destruction of MeBr captured on activated carbon THE SCIENCE OF OZONE LAYER . 4 -- Arctic ozone layer to recover by end of the century -- Ozone hole has changed ocean mix -- Causes of the 2011 Arctic ozone hole determined ODS PHASE-OUT IN INDIA . 6 -- Campaign for natural refrigerant gases -- Technology and policy workshop on HCFC phase-out -- Targets for the first stage of HPMP IN THE NEWS . 7 -- Asia-Pacific nations visit Indonesia for destruction of ODS -- Maldives engages media for HCFC phase-out -- German automakers go for CO2-based air-conditioning -- Pakistan heightens HCFC phase-out campaign in industry -- China’s leading air-conditioner firms switch over to R290 -- Call to ban HCFC that is entering Europe by sea -- Fiji to set up ODS laboratory REFRIGERATION/AIR-CONDITIONING . 10 -- CFC-free centrifugal compressors -- R-407F approved for use in scroll compressors -- Environment-friendly blast chiller -- Forane 427A trialled at brewer’s sites -- New HFO blend substitute for R-410A -- R290 hydrocarbon refrigerant -- Refrigerant for low-temperature refrigeration systems SOLVENTS . 12 -- New cleaning agent with excellent environmental profile -- Solvents for photolithographic patterning -- Azeotropic methyl perfluoropentene compositions -- New environmentally friendly cleaning specifications -- Aqueous cleaner for electronic assemblies -- Tertiary butyl acetate solvent HALONS . 14 -- Water mist system for maritime applications -- Water mist for fire fighting in tunnels -- New water-based ...