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From Microsoft to Walmart, new KU research center on refrigerants is attracting strong interest from businesses

If you could have just one statistic to understand how good it is to be in the air-conditioning industry, it might be this one: About 3 billion people live in the hottest regions of the world, but currently only about 8% of them have air conditioning. As new middle-class economies emerge in places like China, India, Africa and elsewhere, the industry estimates it will need to produce the equivalent of five air conditioners every second for the next 25 years to keep up with demand.
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University of Kansas awarded $26 million for new Engineering Research Center from National Science Foundation

KU is the lead institution for a new National Science Foundation Gen-4 Engineering Research Center — Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) — that will focus on developing sustainable refrigerants to address climate change. EARTH is led by Foundation Distinguished Professor Mark Shiflett in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the KU School of Engineering.
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Andrew Yancey-Jardon publishes article in Chemical Engineering Journal

Andrew Yancey-Jardon publishes article entitled "A new activity coefficient model for describing adsorbed phase nonidealities" in collaboration with David R. Corbin and Mark B. Shiflett in Chemical Engineering Journal
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CJ Ponge publishes article in I&EC Research

CJ Ponge publishes research article in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research titled "Zeolites for Sorption of PFAS from Water"