Contractors and technicians who are making do with chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigerants and are not quite ready to embrace hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), may want to ...

The phaseout of ozone depleting refrigerants has impacted air conditioning and refrigeration equipment design in many ways. One of the most significant changes to these systems is the transition of ...

HFCs are used in various everyday products, including air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the United States and other nations agreed to ...

Since the Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987, countries have phased out most of the ozone-damaging gases, but their replacements, the HFCs, are powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to climate ...

Image: A global representation of the projected impacts of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) on ozone levels at the various latitudes in 2050. The small but measurable amount of ozone loss is quantified in ...