Tesco switches to R407F in Poland
Honeywell has announced that Tesco is running its Genetron PerformaxTMLT (R407F) refrigerant in 75 stores, replacing the previously used R404A.
Robert Hurley, Group Engineering Standards & Energy Manager for Tesco Group Property. “Compared to R-404A, the refrigerant we previously used, Genetron Performax LT offers 50 percent lower global warming impact.”
Sixty of the Tesco stores using Genetron Performax LT are newly built, while the remaining 15 stores were retrofit applications, where R407F replaced R-404A.
Tesco installed Genetron Performax LT mainly in small format stores of up to 1,000 square meters, as well as some supermarkets (2,000 to 3,000 m2) and large hypermarkets of more than 4,000 square meters.
The total of 75 stores has been implemented between June and November 2011 whilst Tesco will continue with the roll-out plan in Poland.
Honeywell says that according to the industry testing, systems using R407F consume up to 15 per cent less energy than systems using R-404A and up to 7 percent less than systems running R-407A at medium temperature.
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