What are the Common Freon Refrigerants?

Freon is a refrigerant that has been used relatively early. Now, with the production of new environmentally friendly refrigerants, and the fact that Freon is not environmentally friendly, some of them can be replaced. Today, I will tell you in detail about the common freon refrigerants in our lives.

Freon is a refrigerant trademark registered by DuPont Company in the United States and is widely used as a refrigerant in refrigeration equipment such as refrigerators, air conditioners, and freezers. Generally, it is a gas at normal temperature and pressure with a slight smell.

Freon refrigerants are divided into three types: chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, and hydrofluorocarbons.

Chlorofluorocarbons referred to as CFCs, mainly include R11, R12, R113, R114, R115, R500, R502, etc. This type of refrigerant has a great effect on the destruction of the ozone layer and is listed as a controlled substance by the Montreal Protocol.

Hydrochlorofluorocarbons referred to as HFCCS, mainly include R22, R123, R141b, R142b, etc. The ozone depletion factor is only a few percent of R11. At present, HCFCs are regarded as the most important transitional substitutes for CFCs. The Montreal Protocol stipulates that R22 will be phased out in 2020, and R123 will be phased out in 2030.

Hydrofluorocarbons, referred to as HFCs, mainly include R134a (replacement refrigerant for R12), R125, R32, R407C, (replacement refrigerant for R22), R152, etc. The ozone depletion factor is 0, but the climate warming potential is high. In the “Montreal Protocol” there is no clear period of use, but in the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” Kyoto Protocol is characterized as a greenhouse gas.

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