- Author
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Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology Institute, Inc.
- Title
- Report of the ARI Delegation to Japan on Alternative Refrigerants.
- Coporate
- Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology Inst., Inc., Arlington, VA
- Report
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DOE/CE/23810-12
February 1993
13 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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refrigerants
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compatibility
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lubricants
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flammability
- Identifiers
- chlorofluorocarbon; Japan
- Abstract
- In February 1993 a delegation of researchers from ARI member companies spoke at the International Conference on Alternative Refrigerants in Tokyo and visited several Japanese Organizations for the purpose of exchanging information on alternative refrigerants. The specific purpose of the meetings was to review the methods being utilized to screen alternatives to CFCs and HCFCs: material compatibility screening methods, lubricant testing techniques, as well as flammability studies. A list of papers presented at the conference are reproduced in Appendix A. Japanese companies seem to be focusing their efforts on changing over to CFC alternatives. The leading replacement refrigerant is HFC-134a. Whils not as much effort seems to be directed into finding alternatives to HCFCs, some companies stated that they plan to move away from HCFC equipment by 2000. Refrigerant producers gave no indication that they would speed up refrigerant phaseout.