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Reports, Guidelines and Tools
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Refrigerant Leak Prevention and Detection
- GreenChill Leak Prevention & Repair Guideline (PDF) Updated 5/25/11
- GreenChill Refrigerant Receiver Level Chart 2010-2011 (PDF)
- Refrigeration Management at Giant Eagle (PDF)
- Leak Reduction Best Practices: Change Your Bottom Line, Not Your Refrigerant System (PDF)
- GreenChill Installation Leak Tightness Guidelines (PDF)
- GreenChill Installation Leak Tightness Fact Sheet (PDF)
- RealZero (UK): Illustrated Guide to 13 Common Leaks (PDF)
- RealZero (UK): Designing out Leaks: Design Standards and Practices (PDF)
- RealZero (UK): Guide to Good Leak Testing (PDF)
- The Institute of Refrigeration: Reducing refrigerant emissions and leakage (PDF)
Refrigerant Retrofits:
Tools and Calculators:
- GreenChill Climate Impact Calculator for Supermarkets
- Average Supermarket’s Greenhouse Gas Impacts - Refrigeration Leaks Compared to Electricity Consumption
- GreenChill Financial Impact Calculator for Supermarkets (Excel, 271 KB)
Sustainablility Trends
- GreenBiz: State of Green Business 2010
- CCRRC: Sustainability in Retailing (PDF)
- Environmental Practices Inventory: 2009 Survey of Minnesota Grocers
- ASHRAE’s Sustainability Roadmap: The approach to defining a leadership position in sustainability (PDF)
- California Grocer’s Association: Sustainability Report (PDF)
- The Economist: Doing good: Business and the sustainability challenge (PDF)
- GMA: Finding the green in today’s shoppers: Sustainability trends and new shopper insights (PDF)
The Supermarket Industry
- GTZ/Proklima International: Good Practices in Refrigeration
- EPA: Transitioning to Low-GWP Alternatives in Commercial Refrigeration
- Bohn/Heatcraft Refrigeration Products: Secondary Loop Systems for the Supermarket Industry (PDF)
- EIA: Chilling Facts (PDF)
- EIA: Chilling Facts II: The supermarket refrigeration scandal continues
- IM Kauffield: Trends and Perspectives in Supermarket Refrigeration (PDF)
- EPA: U.S. Commercial Supermarket Refrigeration Systems (PDF)
Environmental Impact Studies
- Carbon Trust: Refrigeration Roadmap (PDF)
- GreenChill ART Energy Theoretical Study (PDF)
- UBA Study: Comparative assessment of the climate relevance of supermarket refrigeration systems and equipment (PDF)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Study: Energy and Global Warming Impacts of HFC Refrigerants and Emerging Technologies
Natural Refrigerants
- R744: Tesco opens its first CO2 refrigeration store in China
- R744: Japanese demo project will assess CO2 performance in different climatic zones
- Carrefour Case Studies - Roll out and Experience with Natural Refrigerants (PDF) (36 pp, 3.97 MB)
- Marks and Spencer's Case Study - experience with alternative refrigerants (PDF) (16 pp, 6.56 MB)
- Coop Norway - Natural Refrigerants Strategy (PDF) (18 pp, 1.62 MB)
- Migros and CO2 (PDF) (11 pp, 676 KB)
- Fakta Supermarkets - Second Generation CO2 (PDF) (9 pp, 1.44 MB)
- R744: Innovative CO2 Technology combines heating and cooling at Sainsbury’s
- R744: Innovative waste heat recovery with combined adsorption and transcritical system
- R744: High efficiency CO2 refrigeration units for warm climates
- R744: Germany honours project dedicated at enhancing CO2 efficiency at high temperatures
- R744: CO2 trans-critical compressors
- R744: Efficient CO2 refrigeration systems for higher ambient temperatures
- UL: Revisiting Flammable Refrigerants(PDF) (19 pp, 688 KB)
- GTZ/Proklima International: Guidelines for the safe use of hydrocarbon refrigerants
- 9th IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference 2010: Ammonia and CO2 Combined Package Systems for Commercial and Industrial Applications (PDF)
- Australian Green Cooling Council: Transcritical CO2 (R744) Supermarket Refrigeration in Australia
- Star Refrigeration Limited: New, Natural, and Alternative Refrigerants (PDF)
- University of Padova: Natural Refrigerant CO2 (PDF)
- GTZ/Proklima International: Natural Refrigerants (PDF) (208 pp, 4.7 MB)
- ASHRAE: Carbon Dioxide in North American Supermarkets (PDF)
- International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration: Technical Papers (PDF)
- AIRAH: Natural Refrigerants: Case Studies (PDF)
- GTZ: Natural Refrigerants: Sustainable Ozone- and Climate-Friendly Alternatives to HCFCs (PDF)
- ASHRAE Position Document on Natural Refrigerants (PDF)
- ASHRAE: Ammonia as a Refrigerant (PDF)
- CO2 Refrigeration Systems
- Danfoss: CO2 is keeping Supermarkets Cool (PDF)
Ozone Depletion and Climate Change
- NOAA: Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010
- Nature: Non-CO2 greenhouse gases and climate change
- UNEP: Out of the Maze: Montreal Protocol, Climate Benefits and the Green Economy
- National Climate Data Center: The State of the Climate: 2009 Highlights
- UNEP: New report highlights two-way link between ozone layer and climate change
- UNEP: Climate Benefit from Ozone Layer Protection: "Low Hanging Fruits"
- UNEP: Ozone protection, climate change, energy efficiency (PDF)
- ASHRAE Ozone Depleting Substances Position Document (PDF)
- EIA: Turning Up the Heat: Linkages between ozone layer depletion and climate change: The urgent case of HCFC and HFCs (PDF)
- PNAS: The Importance of the Montreal Protocol in protecting climate
- Velders et al: Factsheet: The large contribution of projected HFC emissions to future climate forcing (PDF)
- Velders et al: The large contribution of projected HFC emissions to future climate forcing (PDF)
Useful Links:
- Science of Ozone Depletion
- Health and Environmental Effects of Ozone Layer Depletion
- Lists of Ozone-Depleting Substances
- List of Substitutes for Ozone-Depleting Refrigerants in Retail Food Refrigeration
- Retail Industry Portal
- NASA's Ozone Resource
- NASA's Educational site
- RealZero
- Food Marketing Institute
- California Grocers Association