Refrigerants fromLinde Gas - an event dedicated to refrigerants, innovative products and their future development took place in the Linde Gas Prague plant on 1 October 2013.
Customers and business partners focused on projection, sales and maintenance in the cooling, air-conditioning and mobile air-conditioning segments participated on the event. Also a chief editor of the Cooling and Air-Conditioning Magazine and a representative of the CZ Ministry of Environment, Department of Air Protection, were among the participants.
We prepared an interesting program for the visitors. By way of introduction, Mr Petr Partsch (Head of Sales Linde Gas CZ) greeted the participants. After him, Mr Ivan Smolik and Mr Stanislav Pluhar (both Specialty Gas and Refrigerant Department Linde Gas CZ) took over the word. Our guests were introduced to the range of specialty gases and refrigerants supplied by Linde Gas CZ, to our expert competences and offer of services that, among others, includes regeneration and ecological refrigerant disposal.
After that, as expected, refrigerants and their innovation became the key topic – in connection with new technologies, market development and legislation becoming more rigorous. The DuPont representatives, whose refrigerants are distributed by Linde Gas CZ and SK, received the word. Our visitors heard two presentations focused on the European and global environmental legislation and on refrigerants innovation both in English and Czech languages. The new R1234yf refrigerant for mobile air conditioning was lively discussed. Also the useful information and experience from the replacement of unsuitable refrigerants by new products (for instance the retrofit of unacceptable R404A in many supermarkets cooling circuits), case studies and reference projects from the whole world awoke the interest of the audience. The applications of environmentally acceptable refrigerants from the Linde Gas portfolio - mainly R407A, R438A (ISCEON®99) – together with the natural refrigerants R600a (isobutane) and R290 (propane) were introduced and discussed.
Within the afternoon part of the program, our guests visited the Prague production and distribution centre.
Ms Pavla Vasova (Specialty Gases and Refrigerants Production) acquainted the participants with the specialty gas portfolio with focus on calibration gases with refrigerants as a component used for the working environment monitoring and detector setting.
In a closing part, Mr Stanislav Pluhar presented Linde Gas reference installations of new refrigerants storage and consumption technologies in the Czech and Slovak Republic.
The customers’ day passed off in a friendly atmosphere of sharing and exchange of information that all participants appreciated as useful and effective. Visitors were also interested in the representative space of Linde Exposition “History of the Production of Industrial Gases in the Czech Republic“.
Diana Jenne
Project specialist, specialty gases and refrigerants