• RSES Provides Phaseout Articles to Industry

    Sept. 2, 2009
    Refrigeration Service Engineers Society is making feature articles on the phaseout of HCFC refrigerants available to the entire HVACR industry.

    Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) has taken action to increase the HVACR industry’s understanding and compliance with the R-22 refrigerant phaseout, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

    In August, RSES released eight technical bulletins and feature articles on the R-22 phaseout, originally available only to RSES members. RSES has deveoped an R-410A Industry Awareness web page — rses.org/410a — where RSES service application manual (SAM) technical bulletins and RSES Journal feature articles on the topic may be viewed.

    Titles currently available include:

    • Refrigerant R-410A
    • Understanding Refrigerant Tables
    • What Technicians Need to Know About Phasing Out HCFC Refrigerants
    • Refrigerant Changes Make R-410A Systems More Appealing Than Ever
    • The R-22 Phaseout: Do You Have a Plan?
    • The Rush to Recover R-22
    • Making the Move: R-22 to R-410A
    • Addressing the Refrigerant Reclamation Challenge.

    The articles can be found by visiting rses.org/410a