Reclaiming of HFCs from Used Refrigerants

New technology in response to Kigali Amendment to Montreal Protocol

The amount of fluorocarbon emissions was estimated at approximately 9 hundred million ton-CO2, while HFCs emissions have been increasing year by year in replacing HCFCs for HFCs, which is accelerating global warming.

As the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol has entered into force in January 2019, the international society needs to phase down production and consumption of HFCs gradually.

Asada Corporation has newly developed a technology called "electrostatic separation method" to enable reclaiming contaminated HFCs with HVAC system.

With this technology, Aurora II eliminates contaminations in the used refrigerants with electrostatic separation method, and reclaims them as good as new refrigerants at high purity. It is light, compact, and applicable to varied refrigerants such as R12, R22, R502, R134a, and R410A. By adopting the world's-first-electrostatic precipitator with electrostatic separation method, Aurora II ensures high-purity-reclaiming-capacity at the same level as distillation type reclaiming machines.

Moving forward in the transition, the international society needs to promote collecting and reclaiming HFCs while phasing down the usage of HCFCs.