On August 11-14, 2024, the 16th IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants (GL 2024) will take place at the University of Maryland (USA) and will provide the ideal platform for discussion on the latest research results and advances related to the use of natural working fluids in different types of systems and application areas. 

Oliver Schmid from Hochschule Karlsruhe (HKA) will attend and present a paper about focusing on the laboratory and field test results of the SophiA cooling technology.

His presentation is scheduled on Tuesday, August 13, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm in the technical session A5: Systems 3: Natural  Refrigerants.

Oliver Schmid will also present the progress of SophiA by participating to the “Decarbonization through adapting low-GWP refrigerants” Workshop on Tuesday, August 13.  Check the program:

https://ceee.umd.edu/sites/ceee.umd.edu/files/Program%20at%20a%20Glance.pdf

Workshop Agenda

1. DOE (Katharine Kaplan, DOE’s Future of Refrigerants R&D and Voluntary Market Efforts to Support Ultra Low GWP Refrigerants): 3:30 pm – 4 pm
2. ENOUGH (Yosr Allouche and Silvia Minetto, The ENOUGH Project for the decarbonization of the food chain: how to reach net zero by 2050): 4 pm – 5 pm
3. SophiA (Olivier Schmid, Decarbonization through adapting low-GWP refrigerants in the SophiA project in Africa): 5 pm – 5:30 pm

To find out more about the conference, visit https://ceee.umd.edu/gl2024