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As the HVACR industry continues to move away from HCFC-22 due to regulatory pressures, one of the new retrofit options for such systems is HFC-427A.
As described by the refrigerant manufacturer Arkema, "R-427A (which Arkema markets as Forane 427A) is an easy to use, non-ozone depleting HFC refrigerant, which, in addition to having comparable performance to R-22, has one of the lower global warming potentials of the R-22 retrofit refrigerants available today."
A Case in Canada
An example of the use of the refrigerant is by Airco Mechanical Services to retrofit an air conditioning system for the computer server at the Canada Revenue Agency in Sudbury, Ontario. With Airco servicing a wide...