BELGIUM: The fluorinated refrigerant producers have expressed disappointment at today’s F-gasoline revision vote and warned that choices could end result in basic safety dangers.
In a assertion, the European FluoroCarbons Specialized Committee (EFCTC), which represents the main HFC/HFO refrigerant producers, mentioned its members had been “disappointed” by the amendments adopted by the European Parliament, in distinct the inclusion of really very low GWP HFOs in just the Annex IV product or service ban proposals.
“Low GWP fluorinated refrigerants are component of the lengthy-time period option for the changeover absent from greater GWP HFCs, whilst keeping electrical power effectiveness and safety,” the EFCTC stated, and warned: “The changeover to non-fluorinated industrially produced alternatives could outcome in threats principally in the region of protection in lots of instances, these types of as superior-density buildings.”
The EFCTC predicts “significant consequences” for the operation of refrigeration and air-conditioning machines and the use of some significant-performance insulation elements vital to acquiring the EU’s building decarbonisation plans if the very low GWP HFCs are excluded in the last compromise textual content.
“This may perhaps also jeopardise the widescale rollout of warmth pumps in the EU and therefore undermine the REPowerEU programme,” it extra.
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