R-22 Alternative Refrigerant Seminar

The R-22 Phase-out “How To Survive & Prosper by Being Prepared”

Rick Roland

is the owner and engineer of Certified Refrigerant Services, Inc. which is located in Punta Gorda, Florida. Rick has been in the refrigerant reclamation industry since its inception in 1995; one of the first reclaimers in the country. From the age of ten, he grew up in his father’s HVAC company and eventually became the owner of a Carrier Leadership dealer culminating over 40 years of hands-on experience.

Rick has designed and built all the refrigerant reclaim and separation equipment used at CRS including a patent pending Modular Separation Machine™ (MSM). This advance technology is only possible by possessing an acute understanding of refrigerants and their technical characteristics. Rick is a well known qualified leader and authority in the refrigerant management industry.

• Refrigerant Sales • Refrigerant Buy-Back • Refrigerant Banking • Used Refrigerant Return Programs • Cylinder “Swap” Programs • Refrigerant Reclamation • Refrigerant Separation • Refrigerant Purity Testing • On-site High Speed Recovery • On-site Refrigerant Reclamation • On-site System Flushing • On-site System Dehydration

High Speed Recover-Reclaim-Dehydration

Modular Separation Machine

CRS Production Area

R-22 Alternative Refrigerant Seminar

The R-22 Phase-out “How To Survive & Prosper by Being Prepared”

Part 1 R-22 Phase Out

Question Are the majority of your installations R-410A equipment?

Question How many believe there will be a R-22 Shortage?

Question How many think R-22 prices will rise?

Question

Rise

Question How many have performed an R-22 system retrofit to an alternative refrigerant?

R-22 Phase-out Begins In

01

Days

“How To Survive & Prosper” Be Prepared!

How Much Does It Impact Us?

R-22 Phase-Out Schedule

EPA Forecast 2010

EPA Projected R-22 Servicing Demand by End User 2010 62,500 MT (137,787,500 lbs.)

EPA Projected R-22 Servicing Demand by End User 2015 38,800 MT (185,538,480 lbs.)

Part 2

Existing R-22 Management

EPA’s Definition of Venting “Effective July 1, 1992, it is unlawful to knowingly vent, release or dispose of CFCs and HCFCs during the repair, service, maintenance or disposal of appliances or industrial process refrigeration equipment.”

Increase Industry Compliance • Stop Venting • Price of R-22 Must Increase • Programs must be in place to make it easy to return refrigerants and benefit those who do

Who’s Making It Easy?

• These Wholesalers are making it easy to return recovered R-22

Existing R-22 Management

• Rule #1:

Don’t VENT!

• Rule #2: Get involved with R-22 return

programs that benefit your company

• Rule #3: Don’t mix any other refrigerants

with your recovered R-22!

To Summarize Our Concerns:

• Will good R-22 recovery/reclaim programs

be enough to fill the service needs?

• Will there be a shortage of R-22? • Will the price of R-22 increase radically?

No One REALLY knows

Part 3

R-22 Alternatives

So… what if there’s NO R-22?

Some of the more popular R-22 alternatives

R-404a R-407c R-417a R-421a R-422b R-422d R-507 R-125 (44%) R-125 (25%) R-125 (46.6%) R-125 (58%) R-125 (55%) R-125 (65.1%) R-125 (50%) R-143a (52%) R-32 (23%) R-600 (3.4%) Proprietary Oil R-600 (3%) R-600 (3.4%) R-134a (4%) R-134a (52%) R-134a (50%) R-134a (42%) R-134a (42%) R-134a (31.5%) R-143a (50%)

Choosing An R-22 Alternative Refrigerant

What Do We Want From Our R-22 Alternative Refrigerant?

• No Major Hardware Changes To Equipment • Use The Same Oil Type • Fast, Simple Conversion • Sufficient Capacity • At Least the Same Energy Efficiency • Reliability • Same Toxicity • Flammability Classification as R-22 • Zero Ozone Depleting Potential • Reasonable Cost

What You Should Do?

• Make a choice.

• Learn all you can about your R-22 alternative choice.

• Use that alternative choice as many times as you can so that retrofits will become familiar and easy.

If there’s abundant R-22 and it’s reasonably priced then we’re good to go…But if NOT

If there’s abundant R-22 and it’s reasonably priced then we’re good to go…But if NOT

Be Prepared!

OR

www.certifiedrefrigerant.com

• Technical Reference Library • Pictures (videos coming soon) • R-22 Cylinder “Swap” Program – And much more…