Daikin networks to save the ozone
01 January 2009
An innovative computerised network built by Daikin Industries (DIL), which centrally manages information for the recovery of fluorocarbons, has won a prestigious Japanese environmental award.
The eleventh Ozone Layer Protection and Global Warming Prevention Award was given to DIL for inventing a system for the Daiken Group that assuredly recovers fluorocarbons and even manages the destruction of fluorocarbons after their recovery.
The awards are organised by the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper and sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of the Environment.
“This award recognises DIL’s construction and operation, on a nationwide scale, of a centralised system that fully abides by the law at workplaces throughout Japan,” says a spokesman at Daikin McQuay Middle East, which is based in the UAE. “It also recognises the fact that it not only has service departments to recover fluorocarbons but also targets all air-conditioner sales and installation activities in which the Daikin Group is involved.”
Commenting on the award, DIL president and COO Yukiyoshi Okano said: “Constant vigilance is required in the recovery of refrigerants. This award provides great encouragement and confidence to those who are directly involved with the recovery and management of fluorocarbons at the worksite.”
The network management system works as follows: For service departments, all information gained at the time of recovery, including the amount of fluorocarbons recovered at service centres across Japan, as well as instructions to destruction contractors for transportation of cylinders containing various types of fluorocarbons, are managed at one contact centre.
And when sales departments receive requests to remove existing air-conditioning equipment, which requires the recovery of fluorocarbons, a refrigerant recovery manifest system centrally manages information for each project at the time of fluorocarbon recovery and at the time of commissioning fluorocarbon destruction.
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