Information meetings for 600 refrigeration experts throughout Italy
REFRIGERATION EXPERT LICENSE: LATEST STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY UPDATES
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY: PROFESSIONALISM AND OPPORTUNITY
The vice president of AREA (Air conditioning and Refrigeration European Association), Secretary of ATF (Italian Association of Refrigeration Technicians), and Technical Director of Centro Studi Galileo, Ing. Marco Buoni, has led in recent days in twelve locations in Italy CSG courses hosted by Centro Studi Galileo: a series of technical seminars to update technicians on the European refrigeration expert license, on the latest laws and regulations, on operating system and on future of refrigerants.
All over Italy over 600 people took part in these seminars.
Refrigeration expert license and environmental issues are pressing in Italy (which is still lagging behind with the implementation) and throughout Europe, and Centro Studi Galileo, who for 36 years is responsible for training on refrigeration , air conditioning and renewable energy, ATF and AREA are following them very closely with all national and European agencies, in order to develop them for the interest of refrigeration technology.
Refrigeration expert license is a compulsory certification that enables them to do loss of control operations, installation, maintenance, repair as per EU Regulation 842/06 on all air conditioning and refrigeration systems containing HFC fluorinated gases refrigerants, powerful greenhouse gases.
With this Licence Europe regulates and controls the use of HFC refrigerants, to minimize the direct emissions of gases into the atmosphere. In fact, a refrigerant such as R410a has an impact on global warming equal to 2100 times the CO2 taken as reference; to provide a more concrete basis for comparison the emission of 1 kg of R410a for carelessness of technicians is equivalent to the same carbon dioxide emitted by a EURO 4 vehicle which traveled 20,000 km.
In addition, the same certification also ensures the reduction of indirect emission by to our systems, ie the emission of CO2 due to the production of electricity that our systems consume for 30% of world energy consumption.
Europe seems, for the next revision of 842/06 regulation scheduled for late 2011 or early 2012, to prefer the use of natural refrigerants and low environmental impact, and the reduction of those greenhouse gases that contribute to increasing global temperature.
Examples of realization of the license in other European countries are already under the eyes of all: about 200 technicians in the Czech Republic obtained the license in the Slovak Republic, Irish engineers in Britain and finally even Dutch and Spanish that for reasons of convenience took the license in the UK.
Training to access the exam is not compulsory, but essential for anyone who is not expert.In conclusion, in developed countries, particularly in Europe, environmental protection and energy saving guide the evolution of regulations, which drive technological innovation and the use of new refrigerants. New refrigerants lead to a change of components that are increasingly innovative and increasingly aimed at saving energy: environment, therefore is driving technological innovation.
To achieve this virtuous chain, increasing specialization and qualification of all categories of operators in cold, design, production, installation, maintenance and repair of air conditioning and refrigeration system isrequired.
Source: ATF
