What Factors Affect Refrigerant GWP Values?
Q:
What Factors Affect Refrigerant GWP Values?
A:
It’s not just refrigerants that receive GWP values. Really any gas can be placed on the GWP spectrum (R-22, for example, has a GWP 2,000x that of carbon dioxide).
Carbon dioxide is the gas that experts use as a benchmark for understanding how different gasses affect the environment. Factors that influence how a given gas scores include:
- its absorption rate
- how long it ‘lives’ in the atmosphere
- at what wavelength the gas absorbs radiation
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