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Cool Talks: Una serie de entrevistas con miembros de la red GCI

En nuestra serie de entrevistas "Cool Talks", los miembros de la Red de la Refrigeración verde y las personas beneficiarias comparten su visión de la refrigeración ecológica. La Red GCI es una alianza de actores clave en el sector de la refrigeración, el aire acondicionado y la espuma. Está formada por instituciones gubernamentales, organizaciones internacionales y el sector privado. Están unidos por un objetivo: la transformación del sector de la refrigeración, en beneficio de las personas, el medio ambiente y nuestro futuro común.

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Project engineer Collin Bootsveld works hard every day to make sure that by 2030 all Colruyt supermarkets are equipped with climate-friendly refrigeration systems. We spoke to him about his ambitions and his vision of an HFC-free future.

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Collin, you’ve got an academic background as a chemical engineer. How long have you been applying your expertise in the field of climate-friendly cooling – and since when at Colruyt Group?

I have worked on energy related subjects since my first job, in 1992. I advised on the improvement of industrial processes, including for instance the use of cooling in a cheese factory. From 1999, climate-friendly comfort cooling was my focus at the department of refrigeration and heat pump technology, of research institute TNO in the Netherlands. I worked on adiabatic cooling but also on the integration of heat pumps in buildings and green houses and on moisture control in historic buildings. At Colruyt Group, my first projects in 2010-2013 were concerned with sustainable mobility: a hybrid truck, the use of CNG in trucks and, the introduction of hydrogen technology. In hindsight, this experience proved to be a good basis for the introduction of flammable refrigerants, since all the previous technologies were flammable as well and I know what steps to take.

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