Sentences with phrase «as hydrochlorofluorocarbons»

Every year, supermarkets in the United States emit large quantities of ozone - depleting greenhouse gases known as hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), which are widely used in commercial refrigeration and air conditioning...

It also addresses UNEP's work in reducing the lead content of fuels and paint, and tackling ozone - depleting substances such as hydrochlorofluorocarbons and methyl bromide.

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In addition, it adopts a water - based cooling technology instead of using chemical refrigerants such as chlorofluorocarbon and hydrochlorofluorocarbon for cooling, thus making it safer and more environmentally - friendly.

They produce the refrigerant HCFC - 22, a hydrochlorofluorocarbon promoted by the Montreal Protocol as a replacement to more destructive ozone layer - eating substances.

The latest edition, which is titled «Saving the Ozone Layer: Phasing Out Ozone Depleting Substances in Developing Countries,» includes a focus on hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), which are being phased out under the Protocol but are commonly used as both refrigerants and foam blowing agents.

Their use is growing because they are being widely adopted as replacements for O3 - depleting substances (ODS), including chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), which are being phased out under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

This served as a starting point for discussions I had with a number of folks at the UN climate meeting in Poland last month who are pushing the idea of using the Montreal Protocol to control hydrochlorofluorocarbons.

-- The Montreal Protocol gases (chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), and chlorocarbons) as a group contributed +0.32 [± 0.03] W m — 2 to the RF in 2005.

In addition, it adopts a water - based cooling technology instead of using chemical refrigerants such as chlorofluorocarbon and hydrochlorofluorocarbon for cooling, thus making it safer and more environmentally - friendly.

Today, DuPont manufactures hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as alternatives to CFCs for the air conditioning and refrigeration industries.

Then they pick an insulation that is made from hydrocarbons, it uses hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) as a blowing agent, has trischloropropylphosphate (TCPP), a possible bioaccumulative toxin, as a flame retardant, and if it does catch on fire, «will produce dense, black, toxic smoke releasing carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and possible traces of hydrogen cyanide, halogen acids and nitrogen.»