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1. Cold is essential to life
Today and tomorrow, it's impossible to imagine doing without the cold:
for food safety reasons: production, transport, distribution and consumption of many food products;
for health: development and preservation of medicines, tissues, organs, vaccines, medical treatments, surgical operations;
for the preservation of species and biodiversity;
to create and improve living, working, transport, leisure and travel conditions;
for defense and research technologies: satellites, space probes, etc;
for processes in virtually all industries: plastics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, metals, nanotechnologies;
for energy production: power plant cooling, natural...
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Bibliography
Events
Pôle Cristal October 10, 2013 in Dinan
International Congress on Refrigeration organized by the IIF every 4 years: last in Prague 2011 and next in Yokohama 2015.
IIF colloquia and thematic conferences: for example, Gustav Lorentzen conferences on natural fluids,...
Cold Chain Forum October 23-24 in Paris
Chillventa in Nuremberg every...
Regulations
European Regulation 842/2006/EC (known as F Gas) on fluorinated greenhouse gases
Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 relating to emissions from air conditioning systems in motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC
Directory
Organizations – Federations – Associations (non-exhaustive list)
AFF (Association Française du Froid) http://www.aff.assp.fr
IIF (International Institute of Refrigeration) http://www.iifiir.org
AFCE (Alliance Froid Climatisation Environnement)...
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