Good practices in refrigeration

The manual GOOD PRACTICES IN REFRIGERATION is the second edition of a booklet jointly published by the PROKLIMA Programme of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, the ‘Brazilian Servico Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial’ (SENAI) and the ‘Ministerio do Meio Ambiente do Brazil’ (MMA) in 2004.

This manual has now been updated to provide professional guidance on how to service and maintain refrigeration systems operating with new technology, e.g. ozone- and climate-friendly alternative refrigerants to CFCs and HCFCs. It addresses essential know-how on containment of HFC refrigerants which have a high global warming potential (GWP) and provides information on the safe use of environmental-friendly natural refrigerants, such as CO2, ammonia or hydrocarbons.

Guidelines for the safe use of hydrocarbon refrigerants

This new Proklima publication was produced in close cooperation with TUEV SUED to develop a handbook for engineers, technicians, and policy makers that describes safety systems both from a third party perspective and from an implementing agency perspective. It informs in a comprehensive manner about all aspects related to safety while working with hydrocarbon refrigerants, covering infrastructure, systems design, training, production and manufacturing facilities, equipment design and development, working on systems and development, and case studies.

The handbook shall function as a guidebook for policy-makers involved with designing nation-wide policies to support the use of natural refrigerants (i.e. regulatory aspects, standards, etc) and also for manufacturers and installers of HCFC and HFC equipment to reliably assess the suitability of hydrocarbon (replacement) options and subsequently implement them.

Download new publications

• Good practices in refrigeration
  gtz2010-en-good-practices-refrigeration-part1.pdf, 3.03 MB (English)
  gtz2010-en-good-practices-refrigeration-part2.pdf, 5.25 MB (English)
  gtz2010-es-buenas-practicas-refrigeracion-parte1.pdf, 3.76 MB (Spanish)
  gtz2010-es-buenas-practicas-refrigeracion-parte2.pdf, 6.36 MB (Spanish)
• Guidelines for the safe use of hydrocarbon refrigerants
  gtz2010-en-guidelines-safe-use-hcs-part1-4.pdf, 1.81 MB (English)
  gtz2010-en-guidelines-safe-use-hcs-part5-7.pdf, 4.76 MB (English)