Trane this month presented a demonstration of its first ever air-cooled chiller with next generation refrigerant DR-55.
The AquaTrine chiller is designed for top-grade apartments, luxury villas, office buildings, small restaurants, retail stores and hotels.
It uses a high-efficiency hermetic scroll compressor and evaporator technology. DR-55, marketed by The Chemours Company as Opteon XL55, is a next generation low-GWP refrigerant.
The University of California (UC) at Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Centre laboratory recently completed testing of DR-55 describing it as a design-compatible replacement for R-410A .
Speaking at a waste heat recovery workshop this month, Chemours Fluorochemicals global business director, Diego Boeri, said the company continues to develop new high value offerings in response to regulatory and sustainability demands.
“These solutions will not only reduce their application’s GWP, but can also improve energy efficiency, further reducing the overall climate change impact. We anticipate that our new family of products will reduce greenhouse gas content of refrigerants alone by 245 million tons CO2 equivalent worldwide by 2025,” Boeri said.