Refrigerant Comparison
Understanding your refrigerant is important to evaluating constituent chemicals in your plant, the environmental impacts that these chemicals present, and the potential regulatory impacts that you might face today, or in the future. There are Natural refrigerants, HCFC’s (most of which are already banned), HFC’s (many of which are beginning to face regulatory bans), HFC/HFO Blends (often referred to as HFO blends which are blended with HFC’s to reduce the GWP impact), and HFO refrigerants (newly designed refrigerants to meet lower GWP thresholds).
Below is a summary of the selected refrigerant at a given set of test conditions. This information is not intended to be used as a design guide but instead as a comprehensive overview of each refrigerant’s relative properties.* For further explanations of each technical terminology below, please see the “FAQ” section of this webpage.
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