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Article: Two azeotropes proposed as CFC, HCFC replacements. (chlorofluorocarbon, hydro chlorofluorocarbon)
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- Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News
- Article date:
- September 28, 1992
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The greatest challenge facing the air conditioning and refrigeration industries is finding environmentally safer replacements for CFCs and HCFCs.
CFCs will be phased out, by Presidential request, starting Jan. 1, 1996. HCFCs will be banned early in the next century.
In the rush to identify alternatives to CFC refrigerants, many in the industry have not yet focused on a possible solution with which customers are already familiar: azeotropes.
CFC-based azeotropes, like R-and 500 R-502, have long been valued for use in refrigeration and air conditioning systems because, unlike blends, their individual components of mixture do not separate.
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