Danfoss recently presented its 22nd EnVisioneering Symposium titled, “Refrigerants2Sustainability.” The Nov. 5 conference, held in Washington, D.C., focused on the complex challenges reshaping the refrigeration landscape. National policy and global concerns for ozone depletion remapped the industry with the Montreal Protocol. Today, the problem is climate change — driven by both leaked and vented high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants and energy-intense refrigeration systems.
According to Danfoss officials, the industry faces an array of complex challenges — increased regulatory pressure, ever-increasing energy costs, contractor training on new low-GWP systems that are flammable or mildly flammable, and consumer demands for sustainability.