Appliance Research Corporation
Appliance Research Corporation
Over the last 20 years, the household refrigerator/freezer industry and its suppliers, working through the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) and its research arm, the Appliance Research Corporation (ARC), has sponsored a series of studies to evaluate alternatives for ozone depleting substances that had been used as a refrigerant and a foam blowing agent. Areas investigated included safety aspects, product quality, impact on energy consumption, life cycle climate performance, and emissions of blowing agents from foam at the end of product life.
Early work of the Corporation was primarily focused on developing information that could be used to screen substances that were candidates for replacement refrigerants and blowing agents. Studies related to refrigerants were conducted under the sponsorship of the refrigerant technical advisory committee and studies related to foam blowing agents were conducted under the insulation technical advisory committee. These projects helped to expedite a smooth transition away from the use of ozone-depleting substances in refrigerators and freezers and were a major factor in AHAM’s selection by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a 2005 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award winner.
The Appliance Research
Corporation
Association of Home
Appliance Manufacturers
Suite 402
1111
19th St., NW
Washington, DC
20036
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202-872-5955