An informational meeting on the past, present, and potential solutions for Turkmenistan’s refrigeration industry was held at the Ozone Center’s office under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection. The meeting covered the future of the country’s refrigeration industry as well as ways to steadily get through the phase when hydrofluorocarbons will no longer be used because they increase the greenhouse effect, Turkmen Portal reports.
Participants included officials from the Ministries of Education, Health and Medical Industry, Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, personnel of the oil and gas sector, State Corporation “Turkmenhimiya,” UIET, and law enforcement personnel.
Turkmenistan is one of 129 nations that have committed to phasing out 18 hydrofluorocarbons that are included in cooling mixes worldwide in line with the most recent revisions to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer protocol.
A project transition plan for the use of new refrigerants over the next six years is being developed in Turkmenistan, according to Myahri Saparova, an employee of the Ozone Center.
Long-term equipment in Turkmenistan will progressively stop using the hydrofluorocarbons that need to be replaced.
It was also highlighted during the conference that the conventional household freons would become obsolete along with refrigeration equipment and that this equipment will eventually be replaced by other brands using different freons that are “neutral” to ozone and climate.
Such a procedure, in an instance, lasts until 2047 for Turkmenistan.
In addition to lowering the usage of controlled mixes, the study mentions that Turkmenistan is exploring staff retraining while also having signed the entirety of the ozone accords put out by the international community.
As a result, the Ozone Center intends to develop a teaching platform based on the Yagshygeldi Kakayev International University of Oil and Gas until 2025.
Additionally, a national refrigeration association will be established, whose members would receive legal and advisory support.
