Strategic Planning
Those who have facilities containing CFCs should develop a
strategic plan to control, and in the long run eliminate their
use. A good plan should also contain the elements necessary to
assess, define short- and long-term action, and to ensure
financial resources are available.
7.1 Strategic
Planning for Existing Facilities Containing Chlorofluorocarbons
Those who have larger or multiple facilities containing CFCs
should develop containment, phaseout, conversion, and replacement
strategies. A good plan should have:
- a policy statement giving direction and commitment;
- a total inventory assessment;
- an action plan;
- a financial plan; and
- an assessment and monitoring plan.
Eventually all end users will have to plan for their future
needs when existing stocks of CFC refrigerants are no longer
available or use is prohibited.
7.2 Goal
Elimination of all refrigerant emissions to the atmosphere and
phaseout of all CFCs and other ODSs will ultimately lead to
minimizing operating disruptions.
7.3 Refrigerant
Inventory and Audit
Refrigerant inventory and auditing should include the
following information:
- refrigerant type - ozone-depleting potential (ODP);
- refrigerant audit:
- refrigerant presently in use,
- refrigerant presently in storage,
- consumption over the past five years, estimated
consumption for next five years;
- refrigeration/air conditioning equipment assessment based
on equipment life cycle to determine retrofit versus new
options; and
- equipment inventory and audit:
- model, age, type, manufacturer, and capacity.
7.4 Conservation
Objective
Both short- and long-term containment is essential. Maintain
equipment using the best available planned preventative
technology to eliminate refrigerant emissions to the atmosphere.
This will allow industry and end users time to manage the
phaseout of
CFC and other ODS refrigerants in an environmentally sensitive
way, using sustainable development concepts and values.
7.5 Development
of a Corporate Stewardship Policy
Development of a corporate ethic that is committed to
sustainable pollution prevention is essential for the future. A
strategic plan for orderly transition from CFC and other ODS
dependence to interim and alternative refrigerants should be
based on the ethic.
7.6 Establishing
Priorities
Priorities should be established for the order of phaseout,
retrofit, or replacement of existing CFC and other ODS
refrigerant systems using the following criteria.
- First and most important, implement a containment program
to ensure that all equipment leaks have been repaired.
Base your priority to retrofit or replace your equipment by
selecting from the equipment with the highest to the lowest (ODP)
that has historically leaked the most over the past five years
first.
These systems should be retrofitted or replaced with systems
that either use an interim or an alternative refrigerant that has
the minimum possible effect on ozone layer depletion and global
warming potential.
- Generally, equipment more than 15 to 20 years old should
not be converted but operated until obsolete.
- Refrigerant must be recovered from equipment before its
disposal. This refrigerant can be reclaimed by a third
party for future use or recycled for use in the original
owner's other equipment, as part of their phaseout
strategy.
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