New Refrigerant Causes Cooling

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that its new low-global-warming refrigerant for use in automobile air conditioning systems has received final approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The approval allows the refrigerant, HFO-1234yf, to be used in new cars in the U.S. HFO-1234yf has a global-warming-potential (GWP) that is 99.7 percent less than HFC-134a, the refrigerant currently used in most car air conditioning systems. The EPA granted the approval under its Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program.

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2 Responses to New Refrigerant Causes Cooling

  1. Latitude says:

    There just wasn’t any money in freon…………….

  2. Andy Weiss says:

    It would have been nice to own stock in the company which produces that refrigerant.

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