EU will adopt strict standards for the use of hydrofluorocarbons

The European Union has recently adopted a new regulation that will impose more stringent standards on the use of HFCs that generate greenhouse effect.

This new regulation provides comprehensive regulations for the sealing, use, recycling, and destruction of hydrofluorocarbons; limits the number of hydrofluorocarbons to the market; and limits the use of HFC-based products and equipment on the market. If fluorine-containing insulating foams are to be banned from 2015, fluorine-containing aerosols will be banned from 2018, and some small-scale air-refrigeration systems using hydrofluorocarbons will be completely decommissioned by 2025.

The goal of the new regulation is that by 2030, the emissions of hydrofluorocarbons in the EU will be reduced by two-thirds from the current level.

Hydrofluorocarbons (also known as hydrofluorocarbons) are widely used for commercial refrigeration, industrial refrigeration, air-conditioning systems, and heat pump equipment. They are also used in the production of aerosols and foams for household chemicals, as well as fire extinguishers. Foaming agent and so on. The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, classified HFCs as greenhouse gases.