Title: Update on Standards for Air Conditioning
Description:
To reach the goals set by the Montreal Protocol, refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump equipment (RACHP) must transition to climate friendly refrigerants, including flammable refrigerants. A few months ago, agreement was found at international level on a revised revision of standard IEC 60335-2-40. This standard is crucial for limiting fluorinated gas emissions worldwide and help reach the Kigali targets as it allows a much wider possibility to use flammable and climate-friendly refrigerant alternatives which have a much lower global warming potential in a safe manner.
This side event will:
- provide a general overview of this newly revised product safety standard relevant for air conditioning and heat pumps;
- present findings from ‘Life-FRONT’, an EU funded project that quantified the risks of using flammable refrigerants in order to improve equipment design to address flammability risk and allow the safe use of such equipment; and
- highlight the significant global emission savings which can be achieved until 2050 if the additional flexibility given by this revised standard is fully exploited.
Event recording available here
Contact:
Mr. Cornelius Rhein
Cornelius.RHEIN@ec.europa.eu