Tag: refrigerants

  • Centralize Refrigeration Management

    First published in Frozen & Refrigerated Buyer Magazine May 2015 Store level programs can hide huge dollar losses from refrigeration leaks. People often ask me to name the single most effective way to cut supermarket refrigeration leaks, based on my time heading up the EPA’s GreenChill Partnership. My response usually surprises them: Your first priority…

  • Time to Overhaul 608

    First published in Frozen & Refrigerated Buyer Magazine April 2015 Special interests want to expand Section 608 refrigerant leak regula­tions. But what it needs is a major overhaul. The Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy, a Washington, D.C., special interest group, petitioned the EPA last year to expand Section 608 refrigerant leak repair regulations to include…

  • The Great Divide

    First published in Frozen & Refrigerated Buyer Magazine January 2015 Are you looking in the right places for unbiased opinions about your systems and refrigerants? One of the first things I learned about refrigerants and supermarkets is that there is never one right answer, regardless of the question. Doors on cases? It depends on lots of…

  • The Final Word on R-22

    First published in Frozen & Refrigerated Buyer Magazine November 2015 EPA’s determination means a lot less virgin refrigerant will be available. But nobody knows how much R-22 has been stockpiled, or what will happen to pricing. A few weeks ago, the EPA issued its final determi­nation on the amount of virgin R-22 allowed to be…

  • What Is Your Used R-22 Worth?

    First published in Frozen & Refrigerated Buyer Magazine October 2014 About five years ago at the FMI Energy Conference, I gave a plenary presenta­tion on the EPA’s R-22 phaseout. I posed a question to the audience: Why were supermar­kets paying people to come and haul away their used R-22? I commented, admittedly somewhat facetiously, that…