What will the Refrigerant Market be in 2023?

Refrigerants can be used in the system to achieve cooling (and also heating) mainly through phase change in the system, and are widely used in household air conditioners, refrigerators, automotive air conditioners, and other fields. With it, you can sit in an air-conditioned room and eat iced watermelon on a hot summer day.

Fluorinated refrigerants are the most commonly used refrigerants, accounting for more than half of them.

Fluorine-containing refrigerants have many advantages, such as high refrigeration efficiency, stable properties, safety, and non-toxicity, so they have been widely used for a long time. However, in the middle of the last century, scientists discovered a huge hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. The destruction of the ozone layer will bring huge disasters to humans and other living things. Later, it was discovered that the hole in the ozone layer was associated with the use of fluorinated refrigerants.

As a result, people began to improve refrigerants, hoping to reduce their harm to the earth. Today, four generations of refrigerants have evolved, as shown in the table below. The first and second-generation refrigerants have seriously damaged the ozone layer, and developed countries have basically eliminated them while developing countries are gradually reducing production. The third-generation refrigerant is the current mainstream. Although it will not destroy the ozone layer, its GWP (Global Warming Potential) is high, which means that it will cause global warming, and it is currently being gradually controlled. Although the fourth-generation refrigerants are environmentally friendly, they have low refrigeration efficiency, poor safety, and high production costs. Overall, although there are many varieties of refrigerants, none of them is perfect.