Identifying refrigerant fluids with low 'global warming potential'
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 08:31
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org)—Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids with low "global warming potential" (GWP)—the tendency to trap heat in the atmosphere for many decades—as well as other desirable performance and safety features.