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GE Asks EPA for Approval LG Opens Training Center ROSWELL, Ga.—LG Electronics USA has opened the LG Training Academy here to support LG’s commercial air conditioner business. The 16,000 ft2 (1500 m2) training academy is the centerpiece of a new LG Roswell facility, which also houses the company’s local operations for LG Mobile Phones and LG Digital Appliances. This location now has a total of 30 employees and plans to hire additional staff this year. It will serve the Southeast region by providing courses for engineers, contractors, technicians and air conditioning sales managers on LG’s Multi-V Applied Commercial Systems, DuctFree Mini Split and Packaged Terminal Air Conditioner (PTAC) systems. The companies expects to train up to 500 people each month. The refrigerator would be manufacturered at Monogram Refrigeration, LLC, located in Selmer, Tenn. Isobutane Refrigerator for U.S.? LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Isobutane is widely as the insulation foam-blowing agent used in household refrigerators in Europe to replace commonly used HFC foamand parts of Asia, but not in the U.S. be- blowing agents. cause of perceived safety issues. GE says the environmental This could change in 2010. benefits of the GE Monogram GE has requested that the would be significant. U.S. Environmental Protec“The approval will pave the tion Agency (EPA) approve way for the use of low-GWP isobutane for refrigerators. It refrigeration technology in would be the first time in the the U.S. to help address global U.S. that a hydrocarbon has warming challenges. A refrigbeen used as a substitute for erator with lower GWP emisHCFC-based refrigerants, and sions will allow consumers to the first time a refrigerator GE refrigerator. reduce their carbon footprint,” using a hydrocarbon has been said Kevin Nolan, vice presibuilt and sold in the U.S. dent of technology for GE Appliances. According to a GE press release, the “Our goal is to deliver a new GE Monocompany hopes to introduce in early gram refrigerator that will be ENERGY 2010 a new GE Monogram hydrocarbon STAR® qualified, and that will conform refrigerator. The Monogram will use to GE and third-party safety standards for cyclopentane, another hydrocarbon, the use of hydrocarbon refrigerants.” PROVEN DATA LOGGING SOLUTIONS KWh °C kPa How Important is your Data? °F Collecting reliable data requires a dependable Data Logger. BTU Pa PSI Hz PPM GPM %RH f(x) We stand behind our data loggers with a 10 year battery warranty! mA H20 in V 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 YEARS TEMPERATURE RELATIVE HUMIDITY PRESSURE INDOOR AIR QUALITY VOLTAGE POWER QUALITY AC CURRENT PROCESS SIGNAL PULSE Tel: 604.591.1128 Toll-Free: 1.800.663.7845 datalogging@acrsystems.com www.acrsystems.com February 2009 www.info.hotims.com/23932-5 www.info.hotims.com/23932-1 12 ASHRAE Journal ashrae.org

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