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Petra team recognised at ASHREA UNEP event
10 February 2020
A Petra Project Team has been recognised at the 2019 ASHREA UNEP Lower GWP awards, held during the 31st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Rome.
The Petra project team compeised Samir Hamed Alfetiany, Husam Quedan and Samer Hamed Alfetiany (pictured third from right, holding the award). The team was recognised for its work on packaged chillers with integrated air handling units using HFC-32 and HC-290, implemented in Saudi Arabia.
The main goal for this project was to develop, design, manufacture and test a new large cooling capacity packaged air-conditioner (packaged chiller with integrated air handling unit) with a cooling capacity of 40,70 and 100kW respectively, using low GWP refrigerants (A3 and A2L) at standard and high ambient temperature conditions. The two refrigerants are HFC-32 which is A2L mildly flammable and HC-290 which is A3 highly flammable refrigerant. Also, the main challenge of this research is to address the safety requirement for each prototype and adopt this safe design and components in the prototypes.
Samir Hamed Alfetiany, Petra KSA general manager, comments: "The success of this project team reflects the innovation and commitment that our engineering team has to developing solutions for challenging environments.”
