Consulting Engineer for the HVAC&R Industry

Can you wait any longer?

The total UK ban on virgin R22 comes into force on the 1st January 2010 – only months away! Realistically, there will be shortages of R22 at distributors from the middle of 2009 and prices are already going up. Is a shortage of R22 likely to have an impact on your customers businesses?

Until the end of 2014 – maybe even earlier – your customers will have to rely on recycled R22, but with demand likely to be many times greater than supply, will contractors be able to keep your customer's business critical R22 plant running?

There are as many as 100,000 R22 systems still in operation in the UK. Is the contractor workforce able to cope with an ever increasing workload as 2010 approaches?

What should your advice to your customers be?

Essentially, time is running out, options are limited, owners of R22 plant must act now or risk a shutdown sometime in the future. At this seminar, expert industry speakers will fully explain the choices your customers have, to buy time by using recycled R22, to replace the R22 with a direct replacement refrigerant or to replace the plant itself.

You need to present your customers with a fully costed business continuity plan to maintain their business over the coming months. The phasing out of R22 is a threat but also an opportunity for you and the wider air

conditioning and refrigeration industry to bring the real benefits of modern refrigerants and the latest technology plant to your customers' businesses.

Programme

09.00 Welcome Phil Creaney, Editor, Consulting Engineer

09.10 Keynote address Elizabeth Chrominska, Policy Advisor, DEFRA

The key points & timescales of the ODS regulation

The roles of the F Gas/ODS Support Team

09.45 Threat or opportunity? Peter Dinnage, IDS Refrigeration

The threat to end-users who do nothing

The opportunities for end-users to improve efficiency and lower operating costs

10.25 Fair exchange Neil Roberts, DuPont

The options for direct replacement

Issues and business benefits

11.00 Coffees/Teas

11.15 Equipment replacement benefits

Andrew Keogh, Carrier Air Conditioning and David Dunn, Toshiba Air Conditioning

The business case for equipment replacement

Issues and business benefits

11.50 Natural refrigerants Alex Pachai, Johnson Controls International

The trend towards natural refrigerants

Sub-critical and trans-critical CO₂

13.00 Lunch

12.25 Recycling legally Barry Lyons, BOC Gases

A review of legislation around refrigerant waste handling

The facts around recycled R22

14.00 Case study 1 - Steve Lanigan, BP

14.30 Case study 2 - Colin Coe, Morrisons PLC

15.00 Case study 3 - Mike Branagan, CBES

15.30 Case study 4 - IDS Refrigeration (tbc)

16.00 Close