Arkema launches green Forane.(Category: Chemicals & Plastics ) (Image: ) In the run-up to the stricter environmental standards coming into force in 2011, France's Arkema, a world leader in fluorinated fluorinated material to which a fluoride has been added, e.g. water for human consumption treated as a prophylaxis against tooth decay. gases, has developed Forane 1234yf, a new fluorinated fluid with a low GWP GWP Global Warming Potential GWP Global Water Partnership GWP Gift With Purchase GWP Guinea-Bissau Peso (currency code: now GNF) GWP German Wirehaired Pointer (dog breed) GWP Gross World Product designed to gradually replace HFC 1. (networking) HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) HFC - hydrofluorocarbon. 134a currently used in automotive air-conditioning circuits. Arkema is anticipating the tightening-up of environmental standards, in particular the adoption of European Directive 2006/40/CE, by developing right now future generations of fluorinated products in an effort to help curb global warming. The GWP threshold imposed on the automotive industry by this directive requires the substitution of HFC134a, a refrigerant re·frig·er·ant adj. 1. Cooling or freezing; refrigerating. 2. Reducing fever. n. 1. A substance, such as air, ammonia, water, or carbon dioxide, used to provide cooling either as the working substance of fluid currently used in air-conditioning circuits, from 2011 for new automotive manufacturing platforms, and from 2017 for every new vehicle sold in Europe. A fourth-generation substitute for automotive air-conditioning circuits, Forane 1234yf is characterised in particular by a global warming potential Global warming potential (GWP) is a measure of how much a given mass of greenhouse gas is estimated to contribute to global warming. It is a relative scale which compares the gas in question to that of the same mass of carbon dioxide (whose GWP is by definition 1). index that is much lower than that of HFC 134a (GWP = 1,300) currently on the market. To assist its automotive customers with this latest challenge, Arkema has announced plans to produce Forane 1234yf on an industrial scale in Europe, using an innovative process developed by its own R&D, within the time scale set out under Directive 2006/40/CE. "With this project, Arkema confirms its ambition to remain a dedicated partner to carmakers as well as a leading player in fluorinated gases for refrigeration refrigeration, process for drawing heat from substances to lower their temperature, often for purposes of preservation. Refrigeration in its modern, portable form also depends on insulating materials that are thin yet effective. ," a company spokesman said. A world-scale fluorocarbon fluorocarbon /flu·o·ro·car·bon/ (floor´o-kahr?b?n) any of the class of organic compounds consisting of carbon and fluorine only. producer, Arkema currently operates four industrial facilities on three continents: Pierre-BE[umlaut]nite in France, Zaramillo in Spain, Changshu in China, and Calvert City in the United States. Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2008 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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