Gas Recovery Service
Due to the interests in the depletion of the ozone layer, the government has set down specific guidelines for the recovery of refrigerant gases.
We are conversant with these regulations and can offer a service removing these gases from your air conditioning system safely. We will take these gases away from your site and dispose of them in a safe manner.
On the 15"' June 2000 European Parliament approved, without discussion the conciliated text of the revised EU regulation on substances that deplete the ozone layer (previously drafted as regulation 3093/94). A council of Ministers now has to approve the regulation but this is likely to be a formality. This latest Regulation will be allocated a new reference number as yet unknown. However the new regulation will 'apply' from I" October 2000, although, as you will note from some dates shown this does not bring all of its parts into force.
The following extract/summary may be useful as a reference document.
Control of the use of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in air conditioning/refrigeration.
1) HCFCs prohibited in equipment produced after 31". December 1995 in:
a) Non-confined direct-evaporation systems.
b) Domestic refrigerators and freezers.
c) Motor vehicle air conditioning, except for military uses where the prohibition
shall enter force on 31". December 2008.
d) Road public-transport air conditioning.
2) HCFCs prohibited in equipment produced after 31"' December 1997 in:
a) Rail transport air conditioning.
3) From I"' Jan. 2000, HCFCs prohibited in equipment produced after 31" December 1999 for:
a) Public and distribution cold stores and warehousing.
b) Equipment of 150kW and over, shaft input.
4) From I"' January 2001 HCFCs prohibited in all other refrigeration and air conditioning equipment produced after 31" December 2000 with the following exceptions:
a) Fixed air conditioning with a cooling capacity of less than lOOkW - HCFCs
prohibited from I" July 2002 in equipment produced after 30'h June 2002.
b) Reversible air conditioning/Heat Pump systems - HCFCs prohibited from I" January 2004 in all equipment produced after 31" December 2003.
5) From I"' January 2010 the use of virgin HCFCs shall be prohibited in:
a) The maintenance and servicing of all refrigeration and air conditioning equipment existing at that date.
b) All HCFCs, (incl. recycled) shall be prohibited from I". January 2015.
Before 31" December 2008 the EU Commission shall review the availability of alternatives to recycled HCFCs. The review will take into account the availability of feasible alternatives to HCFCs in existing refrigeration equipment with a view to avoiding undue abandonment of existing equipment.
Until 31"' December 2009 the restrictions above shall not apply to the use of HCFCs for the production of equipment for export to countries where HCFCs is still permitted.
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