VATIS update : ozone layer protection. Vol. 4, No. 66, Sep-Oct 2004

VATIS Update Ozone Layer Protection is published 6 times a year to keep the readers up to date of most of the relevant and latest technological developments and events in the field of Ozone Layer Protection. The Update is tailored to policy-makers, industries and technology transfer intermediaries.Highlights : Global inventory of ozone-damaging pesticides • Cold climate heat pump • Natural solvent promises safer cleaning power • Fire suppression system for airliners • Biological pest control • New soil disinfestation treatment methodTHE SCIENCE OF OZONE LAYER ... 4 Return of the ozone hole ✓ Giant research balloon launched ✓ Growth rate of ODS declines ✓ Protecting our future on Earth ODS PHASE-OUT IN INDIA ... 5 Workshop on ‘Alternative Refrigerants and Cycles’ ✓ Phase-out of halons ✓ Conserving halons ✓ Current year’s activities ✓ India targets phase-out of carbon tetrachloride IN THE NEWS ... 6 MNCs pledge HFC-free production ✓ Protocol's success must inspire other environmental pacts ✓ Global inventory of ozone damaging pesticides ✓ Project to control desertification and ozone depletion ✓ Workshop on monitoring and controlling ODS imports ✓ New refrigerant in Indonesia ✓ CFC-free Sri Lanka ✓ Capacity building to eliminate CFCs in the Philippines ✓ Philippines curbs ODS entry ✓ ODS use in Viet Nam ✓ Bangladesh may fall short of phase-out target ✓ China on course in phase-out ✓ Role of market forces in HCFC phase-out REFRIGERATION/AIR-CONDITIONING ... 10 Cold climate heat pump ✓ New refrigerator model ✓ High-efficiency centrifugal compressor lowers energy cost ✓ Compression/absorption heat pump ✓ R-744 air-conditioning system ✓ CO2 compressor ✓ Efforts to develop a hi-tech coolant ✓ Chillers use HFC-134a SOLVENTS ... 12 AC flush ✓ Natural solvent promises safer cleaning power ✓ Effective solvent for cleaning aircraft oxygen lines ✓ New cleaner-degreaser ✓ Degreaser for electric motors AEROSOLS ... 14 New inhaler technology ✓ New-generation inhaler ✓ CFC-free inhaler HALONS ... 14 Fire suppression system for commercial airliners ✓ Replacement for halon-1301 ✓ CF3I as inerting agent in fuel tanks of F-16 aircraft FUMIGANTS ... 15 Biological pest control ✓ New fumigant ✓ Pepper helps increase nematode resistance ✓ Ozone vacuum fumigation for green coffee ✓ Tomato grafting as methyl bromide alternative ✓ Protected culture of strawberry better than MB fumigation ✓ New soil disinfestation method ✓ Hot water treatment as methyl bromide replacement RECENT PUBLICATIONS ... 18 TECH EVENTS ... 1