The Institute of Refrigeration, working with the Carbon Trust, has launched REAL Zero – Refrigerant Emission and Leakage Zero. The mail goal of this new service is to help the industry improve system efficiency, reliability and reduce running cost and environmental impact. The project represents the culmination not just of a lot of research and analysis work, but also addresses some challenges and obstacles to improving refrigeration technology for the public benefit.

The IOR project is based on investigations carried out on sites with a variety of types of cooling systems. The results were analysed to identify the main sources of refrigerant leakage and how these can be reduced.  Although the F-Gas Regulation requires equipment owners to address leakage issues, it does not offer technical advice on how to prevent leakage in existing or future systems.

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