Firms told to phase out CO2 gas

The National Business
Daikin Australia lead engineer Gary Knox (middle) and Refrigerant Reclaim Australia managing director (right) Kylie Farelly with an employee of City Pharmacy Limited’s maintenance division.

By DANIEL EALEDONA
Refrigeration and air-conditioning industry companies have been told to move away from using the traditionally high carbon dioxide gas to environmentally sustainable alternatives.
Daikin Australia lead engineer Gary Knox relayed the advice to stakeholders during a road show on Tuesday.
Knox said companies and property real estate developers in PNG needed to use environmentally sustainable alternatives.

Participants during Refrigeration and Air-conditioning industry conference in Port Moresby.

The PNG Refrigeration Air-conditioning Association Inc (Raca) has partnered with the Australian government, the Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (Cepa) and the United Nations National Ozone Unit to regulate the import of RAC gas in the country.
Opteon Australia, an innovative technologies investor, is looking at supporting the regulatory refrigeration and air-conditioning industry in Papua New Guinea.

Don Bosco Technical Institute electrical and refrigeration staff who attended the roadshow.

Seven Australian-based RAC company investors shared their expertise and innovative sustainable solutions and alternatives for the RAC industry.
They want to support Cepa regulate CO2 gas use in the country, gases that supply air-conditioning in the country’s building infrastructures, business houses, commercial shopping centres and housing for people.

Employees of Holiday Inn and Suite’s maintenance and refrigeration division who attended the “Future: gas” roadshow.

CO2 is also the gas used in refrigerators and freezers.
Cepa’s drive to regulate the use of CO2 in the industry is a global commitment PNG and UN partner countries made in climate change summit held in Montreal Canada.

Kenmore Properties facilities manager Alex Serillano and general manager Vicente Taja attended the roadshow as well.

The UN-backed Montreal Convention directs its member countries to abide by a protocol that supports the global response to the threat of climate change and its effects to the ozone layer.
The ozone layer around Earth protects the planet from harmful radioactive rays from the sun that are not good for the environment and humans.
CO2 emissions released from air conditioners and refrigerators into the air damage the ozone layer around the earth.

Employees of South Pacific Air-Conditioning (SPAC) PNG management and maintenance at the roadshow.

The UN estimated that since the introduction of refrigerators and air-conditioners CO2 emissions released into the environment from 2018 was approximately 4,400 million tonnes.
The Government, through Cepa, will regulate the RAC industry in 2024, with regulations and implementations of reducing CO2 emissions in the RAC industry.