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Article: Ammonia water chillers: take another look. (ammonia could replace chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants in some applications)
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- Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News
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- July 13, 1992
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* Are you tiring of the debate over which new refrigerant to use? Has your owner-client gone into shock at the cost of converting his existing refrigeration plant?
Many of us are deep in prayer that there is a chemist out there who will come up with an 11th hour reprieve before our "transition refrigerant," HCFC-22, gets axed by the environmentalists.
Perhaps it's time to take another look at a refrigerant that has zero potential for ozone depletion and global warming, and which has been in service more than 100 years: Ammonia is its name; NH,,3 is its chemical formula; and its refrigerant designation is R-717.
Nothing has changed with ammonia. ...