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Emphasising the economic and ecologic advantages of natural refrigerants, eurammon is organising an event in Switzerland next month. Future applications of natural refrigerants, especially ammonia, in different fields will be in the focus as well as discussions around energy-efficiency, applicability and economisation.

eurammon, is holding an Operators’ Day on 21 April 2010 in Paradies near Zurich, Switzerland under the title “Natural Refrigerants: Economical and Ecological”. The event will highlight the advantages of ammonia and other natural refrigerants for different applications. Moreover, it will provide system operators, planners, system engineers and other interested parties with useful information on the future applications of natural refrigerants.

“The Operators’ Day is our response to the growing interest in practical questions about natural refrigerants”, explains Thomas Spänich, board member at eurammon. “The end customers have already repeatedly heard about natural refrigerants and now they want to know which natural refrigerants are suitable for which application, how you can generate the maximum energy efficiency with the systems and what kind of value for money they can expect. We aim to answer these and similar questions in our information event and trigger lively discussions among the participants,” he adds.

The presentations will be held in German or English.

Ammonia presentations:

• “Use of ammonia heat pumps by the Energy consortium Schlieren“ - Beat Schmutz, SSP Kälteplaner AG, Georg Dubacher, ewz (German)
• “Packaged ammonia chillers for food and distribution applications” - Dr. Rob Lamb, Star Refrigeration Ltd. (English)

General natural refrigerants presentations:

• “Roche’s Path forward to Natural Refrigerants” - Dominik Bolten, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (German)
• “Poor perspectives for halogenated refrigerants? – Current implementation and future of EU regulations“ - Katja Becken, German Federal Environment Agency (German)
• “Heat pumps with natural refrigerants” - Dr. Ole Fredrich, GEA Grasso GmbH (German)