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OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet No. 17 – Refrigerant Trends in Mobile Air-Conditioning

OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet No. 17 – Refrigerant Trends in Mobile Air-Conditioning

Mobile air-conditioning (MAC) systems used to cool the driver and passengers in land transport including cars, vans, lorries, buses, agricultural vehicles and trains. Historically all car air-conditioning used the refrigerant CFC-12. This was completely phased-out during the 1990s in developing countries and around a decade later in developing countries and the global car market switched to HFC-134a, a refrigerant with a GWP of 1430. Larger vehicles such as buses and trains also use other HFC refrigerants such as R-407C (GWP 1774) and R-410A (GWP 2088).

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