Decarbonizing buildings with low GWP refrigerants

Strategies around Decarbonizing buildings can focus on electrification, increased energy efficiency, renewable (clean) energy and refrigerant management. This session will focus on the less often discussed strategy of refrigerant management. As the EPA and states move closer to regulating Global Warming Potential (GWP) in HVAC equipment there are newer refrigerants and requirements that need to be understood and how they may affect HVAC systems. New technologies being deployed in the market will offer new opportunities to decarbonize operations in ways the industry has previously not been able to take advantage of and low GWP refrigerants are at the front. This session will focus on two examples, replacing existing equipment with high GWP fluids in favor of new units with low GWP fluids.

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Keywords: refrigerant, GWP, decarbonization

Dan Gentry

Applications Engineer

Trane

Dan Gentry is an Applications Engineer in La Crosse, WI. He joined Trane in 2018 after 8 years at another local WI based chiller manufacturer. Dan first interned at Trane in the Technology Lab where he worked in the acoustic lab while attending school through 2008. His areas of expertise revolve around chiller plants, heat recovery and heat pump systems and their reliable and efficient design and operation. He graduated from Ferris State University in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in HVAC Engineering Technology. Dan enjoys spending time with his family on the Mississippi river and relaxing time at the family cabin in the UP.