ORLANDO, Fla. — The new American National Standard for the safe design of closed-circuit ammonia refrigeration systems, ANSI/IIAR 2-2014, sets the minimum requirements for industry compliance and ...

Ongoing and evolving U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE) regulations have created a complex landscape for supermarket owners. The pressure to reduce emissions and ...

Companies operating ammonia refrigeration systems are easy targets for EPA under a number of environmental programs. Recent history suggests release reporting under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act ...

Ammonia, the first refrigerant to be used on a commercial scale, is experiencing something of a renaissance. Long relegated to large food warehouses and big industrial installations, ammonia is now ...

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WASHINGTON — About a month after starting up an ammonia-based refrigeration system in an Albertsons store in Carpinteria, Calif. — one of the first such systems in the U.S. — Supervalu is finding that ...

Modern microchannel tube technology – widely used in the automotive industry for heat exchangers – offers an excellent opportunity to rethink the use of ammonia as a refrigerant, say scientists at the ...

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Tyson plants reported ammonia leaks and injuries at higher rates than other companies between 2012 and 2021, CNN reported. Nearly 150 workers were injured in at least 47 different ammonia leaks ...