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- Apr 12, 2000
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Racine, WI, March 7, 2007:
"The research and development contract supports Modine’s work in its ongoing development of Environmental Control Unit (ECU) and vehicular HVAC systems to provide air conditioning and heating using carbon dioxide (CO2) refrigerant for military vehicles and Army tent enclosures. The $1.8 million contract is scheduled to be completed over a 12-month period.
The alternative HVAC systems using CO2 provide a number of advantages over those using the current R134a refrigerant. Because CO2 is a natural refrigerant, it poses no threat to the environment if it leaks into the atmosphere. It releases no harmful hydro-fluorocarbon (HFC) gases, and it is non-toxic, non-flammable and has the highest safety rating established by commercial standards."
Sam Collier, Program Manager – Army Programs: “In the future, the systems we are developing will cool and heat our forces with substantially lower amounts of greenhouse gases than existing R134a refrigerant-based systems."
Sounds great. Isn't dry ice the bugaboo of CO2 refrigeration systems?
"The research and development contract supports Modine’s work in its ongoing development of Environmental Control Unit (ECU) and vehicular HVAC systems to provide air conditioning and heating using carbon dioxide (CO2) refrigerant for military vehicles and Army tent enclosures. The $1.8 million contract is scheduled to be completed over a 12-month period.
The alternative HVAC systems using CO2 provide a number of advantages over those using the current R134a refrigerant. Because CO2 is a natural refrigerant, it poses no threat to the environment if it leaks into the atmosphere. It releases no harmful hydro-fluorocarbon (HFC) gases, and it is non-toxic, non-flammable and has the highest safety rating established by commercial standards."
Sam Collier, Program Manager – Army Programs: “In the future, the systems we are developing will cool and heat our forces with substantially lower amounts of greenhouse gases than existing R134a refrigerant-based systems."
Sounds great. Isn't dry ice the bugaboo of CO2 refrigeration systems?