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Review Gustav Lorentzen Conference and ARBS

At the Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Building Services Exhibition (ARBS) and the Gustav Lorentzen Conference in Sydney it was all about „Natural Refrigerants – real Alternatives“.

From April 12-14, 2010, refrigerating and climatisation experts met in Sydney to get information and discuss about new technologies, innovations, products and services at the most important event in the area of natural refrigerants. 

The main interest of the visitors at the Bock booth was environmental solutions through the use of natural refrigerants such as CO2 or hydrocarbons as well as the Bock Plug & Play solution for variable speed control using frequency converter technology – the EFC System.

EFC-systems are on the market since 2004 and are used worldwide by now. They are compactly mounted on the compressor, wired and connected ready for use and have an energy saving potential of 25% and more.

The 9th edition of the Gustav Lorentzen Conference that ran parallel to the ARBS was hosted by the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) and the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating (AIRAH). At the two-day conference in Sydney about 170 experts from 26 countries were meeting to discuss latest developments and news from the field of refrigeration, air-conditioning and heating.
Since the conference took place for the first time in the southern hemisphere, many participants were from Australia, but also experts from Asia and numerous European countries were present.

As the motto already indicated, this year's Gustav Lorentzen Conference showed that “Natural Refrigerants” can be “Real Alternatives”. The focus of the presentations and papers was mainly on the topic of CO2, whereas a few papers dealt with ammonia and hydrocarbons as well.

Bock CO2 Manager Manuel Frösche who presented ”Latest developments in compressors and refrigeration systems using CO2” concluded: “The trend in countries with high ambient temperatures goes towards natural refrigerants and especially towards CO2. This increasing interest is also apparent in the high number of conference participants that came from various countries to discuss this topic.“

Bock Australia Pty Ltd., the Australian subsidiary of the German compressor manufacturer was already founded in 2001. Bock Australia is situated in Sydney and responsible for the whole Australian Market.
Apart from the well-known Bock product range, Bock Australia also offers the PlusBox, the Plug & Play condensing units especially designed for the Australian market.